Spotlight on TSPN Enterprise CIC
In our latest member spotlight, we’re delighted to welcome Eugenia Sajnani, Innovation and Business Support Officer at TSPN Enterprise CIC.
What does your social enterprise do, and why do you do it?
TSPN Enterprise is the social enterprise arm of the Scottish Pantry Network, a Glasgow-based charity supporting community pantries. Our flagship product, Prepmate meal kits, provides affordable, nutritious, easy-to-prepare meal kits, including fresh, locally sourced whole food ingredients and step-by-step recipe cards, designed to make healthy eating genuinely accessible for families facing food insecurity.
Prepmate was developed to address two critical challenges facing communities across Scotland: food insecurity and poor nutrition. Rising living costs and limited access to healthy, affordable food have left many families struggling to prepare balanced meals at home. We exist because we believe food should never be a luxury, and that dignity, choice and confidence in the kitchen are things every family deserves.
What products, services and/or experiences do you currently offer?
Under TSPN Enterprise – Prepmate Meal Kits, budget-friendly kits containing fresh, locally sourced ingredients and step-by-step recipe cards, designed to make cooking nutritious main meals and soups simple, affordable and enjoyable for everyone.
Under the Scottish Pantry Network – Cookery classes are delivered from our commercial kitchen in Tollcross, Glasgow, as well as a mobile service that brings sessions directly into communities at different locations. Classes are designed to build real confidence in the kitchen, using Prepmate meal kits as the practical foundation or drawing on tailored recipes to suit the specific needs and interests of each group
What’s your personal motivation?
I came into this role because I believe that good food and good health should not be determined by postcode or income. Working at the intersection of innovation, nutrition and community, I get to help build something that genuinely shifts people’s relationship with food, not just what they eat, but how they feel about eating and cooking. When a family tries a Prepmate recipe they’d never have attempted before, or a participant leaves a cookery class with real confidence in the kitchen, that’s what drives me.
What is next on the horizon for your social enterprise, and how do you plan to get there?
Our vision is ambitious and focused on scaling Prepmate to 1,500 meal kits a week in 2026. Further down the line, we would be looking at franchising to replicate our model and reach every corner of the country while maintaining quality and consistency. We are also developing new recipes, including meat-based and meat-alternative options and working to secure new storage facilities to support increased production. Alongside this, we are actively growing our public sector contract pipeline and developing chargeable workshops and ticketed events as sustainable income streams. We joined the ALL IN Glasgow 2026 business campaign, so we will be offering cookery classes with dishes from the 72 countries!
What’s the hardest thing you’ve had to overcome in your social enterprise journey?
Honestly, there have been a few things that have tested us, and they’re all connected.
The hardest has been carving out a distinct identity for TSPN Enterprise alongside the Scottish Pantry Network charity. When you’re rooted in community and driven by a social mission, it’s easy for the lines to blur, but we’ve learned that clarity about who we are in each context matters enormously, both for how funders and customers engage with us and for how we hold ourselves accountable to both a mission and a bottom line.
Closely tied to that has been the internal shift in mindset, moving from a charity way of thinking to an enterprise one. In the charity world, income is something you apply for. In a social enterprise, you earn it, and that requires a completely different confidence in the value of what you’re offering. Learning to price our products and services properly, to pitch commercially, and to see revenue generation as a route to greater impact rather than a compromise of our values, that’s been a real journey.
And then there’s the public contract space. Securing our NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde contract was a landmark moment, but the path to get there was complex. Public procurement has its own language, its own timelines, and its own barriers, particularly for smaller organisations without a track record of formal tendering. We had to build that credibility from scratch, and navigating that process while running everything else tested the whole team. Getting it right has opened doors we couldn’t have imagined, and we’re applying everything we learned to grow that pipeline further.
What is your most satisfying achievement so far?
Delivering over 16,000 meal kits, equating to more than 64,000 individual meal portions, and supporting an estimated 4,000 children is something the whole team is incredibly proud of. Equally satisfying is the feedback we receive from families: people telling us they feel more confident in the kitchen, that their children love the healthy meals, and that they feel more in control of what they eat. That shift in dignity and agency is exactly what Prepmate was built for.
How has being a member of Social Enterprise Scotland helped you?
Being part of Social Enterprise Scotland has been invaluable, particularly in the early stages of establishing TSPN Enterprise as its own identity distinct from the charity. Our CEO, Mandy, has been able to connect with peers navigating similar challenges, and that sense of community has been grounding. The events and webinars at SES have given us practical insight into areas we were finding our feet in, from governance to trading, and having a credible network to refer back to when navigating the often unfamiliar world of social enterprise has genuinely helped build our confidence and credibility. It’s reassuring to know there’s a community that understands the tension of running a mission-led business.
Who in the social enterprise community inspires you and why?
Hey Girls is a constant source of inspiration; they’ve shown that a product-led social enterprise can challenge systemic inequality while building something genuinely sustainable and scalable. There’s something powerful about the simplicity of their model and the clarity of their mission. Closer to home, our CEO, Mandy Morgan, inspires me daily. She’s built something meaningful from the ground up, and watching her navigate the complexity of running both a charity and a social enterprise with such conviction reminds me why this work matters. No challenge is too big for her.
What top tips would you give to other social enterprises?
- Get comfortable with the tension between mission and margin; they’re not opposites, they’re what makes your model resilient.
- Don’t underestimate the power of telling your story well. People buy into people before they buy into products.
- Seek out your public sector pathways early. Contracts take time to land, but they can transform your capacity to deliver impact at scale.
- Build a community, not just a customer base; your beneficiaries, partners and supporters are your greatest advocates.
- And finally: don’t wait until everything is perfect. Progress in the right direction is better than paralysis in pursuit of polish.
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