Social Economy Scotland is supporting a wide range of innovative pilot activity established under priority themes across Scotland.

Priority Themes

To ensure the development partnership (DP) prioritises support to achieve greatest policy impact, partners have selected five priority themes. The DP are supporting twelve pilot projects, all supported activity will demonstrate a high potential for mainstreaming under one or more of theses themes.

Partnership and Procurement 

• Edinburgh Employability Consortium
• North Lanarkshire Public Social Partnership
• Renfrewshire Alternative Procurement Project
• Mainstreaming

Access to Finance
New approaches to financing social economy organisations

• Social Equity Scotland
• Mainstreaming

Quality and Impact
Application of tools to demonstrate the quality and impact of the social economyˇ¦s role in service delivery

• Lanarkshire Social Economy
• Measuring the Impact of Volunteering
• Social Return on Investment
• Mainstreaming

Business and Development
Improve the range, accessibility and quality of business support

• Enterprise Accelerator
• Growing the Social Economy with Graduates
• Goodmoves into the Social Economy
• S2S
• Trading Up
• Mainstreaming

Raising the profile