We couldn’t organise and host the Social Enterprise Summit 2024 without the generous support of our sponsors; Just Enterprise, The Challenges Group, Inspiralba and Scottish Community Alliance. If you are interested in sponsoring this year’s awards, we’d love to hear from you. To find out more please contact nia.evans@socialenterprise.scot


Just Enterprise

Just Enterprise is the go-to source of support for social enterprises and enterprising Third Sector organisations in Scotland.

Whether you’re just starting out, looking to scale or grappling with a thorny problem, Just Enterprise provides tailored one-to-one business support to meet your specific needs in addition to a wide range of training and development opportunities.

Funded by the Scottish Government, the programme has supported over 11,000 individuals and 8,000 organisations since 2011, helping to strengthen and grow impactful social ventures across all 32 local authority areas in Scotland.

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The Challenges Group

The Challenges Group is an international enterprise development organisation that delivers enterprising solutions to global challenges. We are business builders who use an innovation mindset, and collaborate with enterprises for their full lifecycle, supporting them at every step of their journey.

Everything we do is designed to maximise enterprises’ potential, so they can deliver extraordinary impact.

We achieve this by improving their organisational capabilities through learning and leadership development for people; strengthening enterprises and their ecosystems; facilitating access to finance; and supporting enterprise innovation.

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Inspiralba

Inspiralba is a charitable enterprise, based in Argyll and Bute, established in 2009, with the aim to support economic growth and deliver social and environmental benefits for communities across Scotland.

We provide a range of services which offer; employability support for those facing barriers and household poverty, business support for social and community led enterprise as well as providing learning opportunities and advocacy with a focus on rural social enterprise.

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Scottish Community Alliance

SCA is a coalition of community based, national networks and intermediaries – each one representing a different aspect of Scotland’s diverse community sector. While each is very different in terms of their specific interests and areas of specialist knowledge, they all share a commitment to the principles of community empowerment and the need for there to be a stronger and more resilient community sector in Scotland.

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