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What started out as a parents' bike swap for their children quickly became Scotland’s largest bicycle recycler! It's a simple idea that has created positive social and environmental change, showing that by being good, "you can do more good." The Bike Station’s innovative model has promoted high employee morale and improved community well-being by giving the less fortunate the opportunity to get back on their feet. This ethos of societal improvement is apparent in their business mission statement:
“Our vision is healthy, green, and happy communities where everyone has access to a bicycle."
"Our mission is to make cycling accessible to people in Glasgow and beyond.”
Poverty alleviation; Health and Well-being; Building resilient communities.
Community Foods Initiative North East (CFINE) was established in 1997, with the aim to alleviate food poverty, by collecting supermarket food waste and redistributing it, via foodbanks, to those in poverty. The organisation promotes healthy eating by redistributing large quantities of healthy fruit and vegetables otherwise destined for landfill.
The organisation was formed when a group of seven small food cooperatives decided to work together, and formed the Food Cooperatives Network North East. The company consists of 30 members of, over 130 volunteers and work placements; including adults with learning difficulties in supported training. CFINEs initial aim was to reduce hunger by supporting individual food coops and helping them to work together.
Since its inception, CFINE has been committed to alleviating poverty and improving health and wellbeing by distributing fresh food, particularly fruit and vegetables. However, CFINE has expanded and now provides a wide range of support to disadvantaged and vulnerable people throughout the North East of Scotland.
The organisation currently supports over 60 community food outlets, works with 200 partners and has a wholly owned commercial enterprise which delivers fruit and vegetables to local businesses and other customers, the profit from from which are then redirected back into supporting the foodbanks.
The organisation also addresses environmental issues, poverty, hunger, and inequality. The organisation's chief executive Dave Simmers believes strongly that issues such as poverty should not exist in North East Aberdeenshire in 2017.
CFINE estimates that it will distribute over 70,000 food parcels in 2017, including 500 tonnes of fresh produce, and in diverting this food, otherwise destined for landfill, CFINE also reduces the environmental impact of food waste, which Mr Simmers describes as 'staggering.'
Challenging inequalities; Training and Development; Furniture and textile re-cycling and up-cycling.
“Cothrom” is the Gaelic word for “opportunity”. The organisation believes that everyone has the potential to grow and develop in skills and confidence and that everyone, regardless of personal circumstances, should have the opportunity to do so.
Cothrom Ltd. is a Community Learning and Development organisation, based on the Hebridean island of South Uist. They serve a population of approx. 6,000 in a remote 100 mile island chain from Berneray to Barra. Cothrom is community owned and managed, with 541 local members. Set up in 1992 to support women returning to work, Cothrom has grown into an established Scottish Qualifications Authority accredited training provider, with a diverse portfolio of adult learning and training opportunities. There were 182 learners across all of Cothrom’s training programmes over the past year.
The learning centre opened in September 2007 and since then Cothrom has been established as the main learning provider in the Uists. The majority of Cothrom’s training is delivered in Uist but the organisation is now developing services throughout the Western Isles and are currently working with an organisation in Harris on the delivery of the Social Services and Healthcare SVQ to 6 learners and the Childcare SVQ to Foster Carers. They are also working with the Foyer Project in Stornoway to deliver the Tenancy and Citizenship award in partnership and with Storas Uibhist to bring weaving training to the Uists.
Cothrom ReStore is the furniture and textile recycling enterprise that provides training and work experience for those who are furthest from the employment market with additional needs and difficulties such as addiction, and learning and physical disabilities. At present they are constructing a new training and recycling premises for ReStore, beside Cothrom’s main learning centre. It will house workshops for furniture repair, manufacture of small household, gift and garden items and textile / craft work. This development will allow Cothrom to double the number of learners from 22 to 44 that can attend the project and to move towards sustainability through a much larger retail space and additional items for sale.
Glasgow Wood Recycling provide solutions to all customers wood needs in one place. They make indoor, outdoor, and bespoke furniture made-to-order or ready for sale in brand new online store. Glasgow Wood Recycling provides Wood Collection and Recycling services at competitive prices.
Entrepreneurial action to alleviate homelessness and empower the disadvantaged.
Aberdeen Foyer is a successful social enterprise established in 1995 to prevent and alleviate youth homelessness and unemployment in the northeast of Scotland. Today the Foyer provides accommodation with support to former homeless and at-risk young people (aged 16–25), under contract with both Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Councils.
Scotlearn focuses on improving financial education, skills development, and employment in deprived areas of the West of Scotland. They collaborate with various organizations to reach out to those most in need of their services. They have a proven record of exceptional cooperation with local communities and the wider society.
ReTweed is a craft training course running since May 2016 owned and run by the founder, Hazel Smith. Hazel Smith returned to Berwickshire after 30 years working with community enterprises in Edinburgh, Senegal and the Isle of Skye. In this time, Hazel has attracted support from a variety of funders, such as The Scottish Borders Council, Business Gateway and The European Union to start Eyemouth, Scotland based social enterprise, ReTweed.
Addressing social inequalities and imperfections in the labor market.
The café aims to provide a welcoming environment, which allows for personal development of individuals who suffer from a visual impairment, through provision of employment.
COPE LTD's keys ideas are:
Business supporting people with disabilities into the labour market. Recognising that there was a lack of opportunity for people with disabilities within Glasgow to engage in and contribute to their their local community.
"Leaving no-one behind" - giving everyone a chance for a good life
Ayrshire Children's Services are a social enterprise, designed to improve the lives of children with additional support needs, in the area of Saltcoats, North Ayrshire in the west of Scotland.
ACS have tailored the service they provide, from previous service offerings, so that care provided can be tailored to children's needs.
Simply Play is an out of school care service that operates across West Lothian county, Scotland. Simply Play was established in 2010 by Family and Community Development West Lothian, as a social enterprise and charity. The innovations of this service included implementing a singular professional set-up, having a personalised approach for each child and installing a unique booking system.
LEAP Energy was established to save businesses money and generate revenue back into tackle fuel poverty and poverty in Renfrewshire.
Providing free draught and thermal tests.
YES Works helps disadvantaged young people into work through the provision of horticultural training. This enables them to forge a career, which they would normally not be able to do.
The business idea of LAMH Recycle is based on the refurbishment of discarded IT equipment and the resale of resultant products back into the community. In the process, LAMH empowers people excluded from the labor market by helping them to develop valuable skills and providing meaningful employment.
LAMH Recycle was established in 1999 as a Limited Liability Company, having started its life as the social enterprise arm of an association for mental health.
This organisation runs a flagship project that runs arts and craft activities for offenders (prisoners) as a therapeutic medium to improve general health and well-being, develop pre-employability skills and reduce re-offending throughout the Highlands. The Libertie project is aimed at low-level offenders, for example those associated with drug and alcohol abuse. On top of that, the Libertie Project offers an outreach service to prison and community criminal justice alongside self-directed support activities for individuals or groups.
Wasps Studios was formed in late 1977 and is known as one of the UK’s largest social enterprise studio providers. The organisation holds residency spaces for around 900 visual artists, craft makers, creative industries and cultural organisations in affordable work spaces all over and around Scotland. The company creates studios by taking old buildings and renovating them into a safe studio space for the artists and by keeping costs low to charge affordable rents. The company has invested around 10 million pounds around Glasgow in the last 6 years and this has helped regenerate creative businesses around the city. The company aims to support their tenants by offering exposure to exhibitions, providing support on how to sell their work as well as educating the tenants on more efficient ways to market themselves. Overall, Wasps Studios provides a safe, affordable working space for the artists and seeks to create as many opportunities as possible for them through workshops and exhibitions.
Wasps studios is Scotland's only national studio provider that provides affordable studios to support artists and arts organisations.
The key points of the case study outline the innovation for Outside The Box, its inspiration, the impact they create upon people's lives, and its business, social, and environmental benefits.