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ESEN Launch Social Enterprise Guides to Edinburgh

28 September 202622 September 2026

Explore Our New Social Enterprise Guides! 📚

Do you want to buy more ethically? Check out our free guides to everything you could need in Edinburgh! 📚

Today Edinburgh Social Enterprise Network is launching a series of easy to use guides for everyone in Edinburgh to buy more ethically when sourcing products or services.

From venue hire to catering, cafes, coworking spaces, recycling, design, video and more, our guides show you all the options & make it easy to spend money and create good in local communities 👪

Fulfil corporate social responsibility and community wealth building requirements with excellent goods and services 🛎️

Find the full range of guides here and each individual guide in the section below.

🏛️ Event Spaces and Venues

Large events spaces for networking, concerts, galleries to intimate spaces for special events, coworking and more.

🍔 Catering in Edinburgh

Event catering for weddings, networking events, parties, small gatherings & more.

🎪 Event Planners Guide to Edinburgh

Everything you need in one pack to organise events in Edinburgh. Venue, catering, entertainment and more to make event organisation far less daunting.

💼 Corporate Procurement Guide for Businesses

Is your business looking for ethical business to provide services for you? This guide is for you.

💻 Coworking Spaces

Looking for a new coworking space in Edinburgh? Spaces to work in Edinburgh from Leith, City Centre, Craigmillar and more.

🏡 Recycling & Reuse

Focusing on the circular economy, social enterprises providing recycling, rerouting food intended for landfill and bringing new life to old tech, clothes, bikes & more.

👩🏻‍🎨 Design, Video & Print

Website updates, a brand overhaul, flyers, merchandise, printing, we’ve got all your needs covered.

🏊‍♀️ Exercise in Edinburgh

From parkour to aerial dance, yoga to capoeira, boxing to bikes and much more, exercise and activities with social enterprises in Edinburgh.

🍽️ Social Enterprise Eateries

Explore cafes and restaurants across Edinburgh with the finest food, for a social purpose.

👶 Kids Activities

Activities for kids in Edinburgh from parkour to aerial dance, art clubs to bikes, boxing, kids party entertainment, after school clubs and more.

👪 Support for Parents

Support services for parents and families in Edinburgh including bike lending libraries, parent groups, baby classes and more.

Moving House 🏡

Looking to declutter when moving house or just donate preloved items to a good cause?

🧘 Mindfulness & Wellbeing

Social Enterprises focusing on your wellbeing, from therapy, to yoga, coaching, cycling & more.

🌊 SE in Leith

Get to know your local area better with all of the social enterprises based in Leith.

🏘️ Granton & Pilton

Looking for social enterprises in the North of Edinburgh? We’ve got you covered.

🙋‍♀️ Local Change, Volunteering

Looking to make a change in your community? Volunteering is a great way to meet people and gain new skills, whilst helping the people around you.

Get in Touch! 📮

Are there other guides you’d like to see or are you a member of the network that thinks you should be in a certain guide? Send us an e-mail to info@esen.scot!

💡 Why Use Our Guides?

⚡ Save Time

Our curated guides help you quickly discover trusted social enterprises for specific needs and occasions.

🌱 Create Local Impact

Every purchase supports organisations reinvesting profits into communities, jobs and social good.

🤝 Support Edinburgh’s Social Economy

Discover businesses and organisations helping build a fairer & more sustainable city.