North West Edinburgh CLIP Consortia

A group of long-established social enterprises were seeking to strengthen their commercial landscaping and gardening operation as part of a wider move towards greater financial sustainability.

While the organisation delivered significant social impact through employability and support programmes, it wanted to increase earned income, create more jobs and ensure that local wealth was retained within the community through trading activity. This required a clear business case, a stronger commercial focus and confidence that growth plans were realistic and achievable. Meanwhile, a new Edinburgh Council led pilot developed a new Community Wealth Building process to facilitate tender opportunities.

Through Accelerate, we worked alongside the organisations to support the procurement process and finalise all the paperwork needed.

We also supported the final submission of the tender, having helped establish the consortia.

With our support, the organisation successfully submitted its tender to Edinburgh City Council, whilst building skills and confidence in the process.