Pauline Graham Social Firms Scotland Margaret McCarthy Unity Enterprise

Pauline GrahamSocial Firms Scotland

Margaret McCarthyUnity Enterprise

Social Enterprise in Scotland- Inspirations and Opportunities

Belfast - May 2012

Community Benefit clauses need not cost more and they requirecontractors working on public sector projects to put somethingback into the community.

The first question that we should ask when developing anyContract specification should be: ‘Can we include a CommunityBenefit clause?’"

John Swinney, Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth,19th March 2010

“In these challenging economic times it is especially important that we get the maximum possible benefit for ourcommunities from publicspending.

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Hebridean

Chocolate

Upkeep

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The bread maker

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Ness Soaps

Bookdonors

Green Tracks

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LAMH Recycle

• Central Government: Scottish Government contracts for the Energy Assistance Programme and Scottish Crime Campus. Business Support & Growth Fund contracts

• NHS: Greater Glasgow and Clyde contract for the new Southern General Hospital (target of 250 new entrants trainees and social enterprise contracts in catering, recycling, soft landscaping and transport services)

• Local Authorities: Glasgow City Council for Commonwealth Games contracts include 10% weighting in all contracts on CBiPs

• Regeneration Agencies: Raploch Urban Regeneration Company (contractual commitment for 225 new entrant trainees)

• RSLs: Glasgow HA(to date more than 1400 new opportunities created

Whose using CBiPs?

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