Launch of competition to help Scots young people

0 2017 award-winner Jennifer Macdonald of organic farm and delivery business Woodside Arran Scotland’s social enterprise development agency Firstport has launched a search for the most innovative and enterprising new ideas for working with and for Scotland’s young people aged eight to 26.

The Scottish Social Innovation Competition is offering three awards of £5,000 and tailored support to refine and develop ideas into reality. The winners, including one young social innovator aged under 30, will be announced in the autumn.

The 2018

competition launch was also marked by the announcement that 2017’s Young Social Innovator, Jennifer Macdonald of Woodside Arran, a community supported organic farm and delivery business, has been awarded a further £25,000 seed funding through the Social Entrepreneurs Fund to further accelerate her business’ growth.

Macdonald said securing the Build It grant guarantees that the organisation will be self-sufficient within a year, but can also take on a member of staff immediately.