Deadline: 18-Jul-22
Nominations are now open for the 2022 Social Enterprise Awards Scotland.
The awards are a real opportunity to showcase the very best of the sector, highlighting the agility, ability and active role that social enterprises play in building places, supporting communities and making a positive impact on our environment and wellbeing.
Award Categories
- Social Enterprise of the Year Scotland: A social enterprise that has been operating for more than 2 years that can evidence the criteria below but that has also demonstrated and promoted social enterprise beyond the sector.
- One to Watch Award: A social enterprise that has been operating less than 2 years that can clearly demonstrate the criteria but also articulate their future vision and how they are going to achieve it showing growth in their model.
- Market Builder Award: Any social enterprise, public sector body or private sector organisation that has demonstrably made efforts within its own organisation and remit to create more opportunities to buy from social enterprises. This could be a local authority implementing a council-wide Social Value Act strategy, a company showing innovation in its procurement and supply chain processes, or a social enterprise seeking to support the movement through buying social.
- Health and Social Care Award: This is open to social enterprises that have been operating for more than 2 years and deliver high quality health and social care work. This award can include mental health and well-being.
- Environmental Social Enterprise: This is open to social enterprises that have been operating for more than 2 years in the green and environmental sectors that can demonstrate excellence in the following criteria.
- Social Enterprise Champion: This award will recognise an individual working or volunteering in a social enterprise.
Criteria
- Social Enterprise of the Year Scotland
- Excellent vision and strategic direction
- Clear leadership and management of the organisation
- A high degree of customer satisfaction
- A clearly evidenced social, environmental and community impact
- Show sustainability in terms of profit and growth
- Good brand awareness and communication outputs
- Evidence of creativity and innovation
- One to Watch Award
- A clear vision for the social enterprise
- A creative approach to problem-solving
- Excellence in impact, design or growth since inception
- Potential for future success, in the judges’ view
- Market Builder Award
- Able to articulate the steps taken to improve the buying environment for social enterprises
- Explain their key aims and objectives in trying to ‘buy social’ in their work
- Explain the technical and cultural challenges that had to be overcome and how they did that.
- Articulate any progress on spend / impact to date
- NB: Only organisations which are supporting social enterprises over and above their core purpose will be eligible
- Health and Social Care Award
- A clear evidenced health and care impacts
- Excellent vision and strategic direction
- Clear leadership and management of the organisation
- A high degree of customer/user satisfaction
- Show sustainability in terms of profit and growth
- Good brand awareness and communication outputs
- Environmental Social Enterprise
- A clear evidenced environmental impact
- Excellent vision and strategic direction
- Clear leadership and management of the organisation
- A high degree of customer satisfaction
- Show sustainability in terms of profit and growth
- Good brand awareness and communication outputs
- Social Enterprise Champion
- The individual should be someone who:
- Goes above and beyond to make a difference.
- Inspires and supports others to give their best.
- Demonstrates a commitment to the values of their organisation.
- Exhibits initiative and drive.
- The individual should be someone who:
For more information, visit https://socialenterpriseawards.scot/