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Glasgow City Council and GSEN co-produced this strategy following consultation with the sector and wider stakeholders. It represents a key milestone in the journey to shape Glasgow's agenda for social enterprise.
This strategy sets out a wide-ranging, ambitious and long-term programme to develop the potential of Scotland’s social enterprise sector. It describes a clear path to stimulating social enterprise activity, developing stronger organisations, and realising market opportunity over a ten-year timeframe.
This Fair Work Framework sets out what we mean by fair work, why it is important, who can play a part in making Scotland a world leading nation in fair work and how this might be achieved.
Commissioned and funded by GCVS and The Robertson Trust, this research was carried out by Strathclyde University to map the extent of fair work in the third sector, identify the challenges faced in progressing fair work priorities and identify options for improving experiences of work.
Glasgow's economy faces three Grand Challenges: Enhancing Productivity, The Climate Emergency and Inclusive Growth. This new economic strategy prioritises cross-sector collaboration to tackle these long-standing issues.
This Sustainable Procurement Strategy sets out the vision, objectives and actions which will direct and govern procurement activities across the Glasgow City Council. Wide ranging in its ambition the strategy strives to support and create contract opportunities for more Glasgow based suppliers, Social Enterprises, Co-operatives, Supported Businesses and Third Sector Organisations.
GSEN recognised the central role that social enterprises played in Glasgow’s response to Coronavirus in 2020 and prioritised recording this work. This report highlights and celebrates the work of our membership who provided vital support services to their communities throughout the pandemic.
Scotland has a well developed support eco-system to help social enterprises start, sustain and grow their organisation and their impact. The Social Enterprise Support Map allows anyone to navigate this landscape easily and efficiently – giving organisations and individuals the resources to become stronger and more sustainable.
In this document the TSI Scotland Network sets out its manifesto to drive forward positive change for greater equality, under four main headings: An enhanced role for the third sector, Implementation of place-based approaches, Volunteering and the empowerment of people and a fairer well-being society.