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Founded on 2003, the aims are sustainability,community development, education & health. To fund other local people to do the same.
Breadshare serves and involves the community, by making excellent nutritious bread using organic ingredients and distinctive local product,helping to create a more sustainable and health enhancing food system.
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Bridgend Farmhouse is a community owned and run charitable organisation in south Edinburgh with a mission to ensure our now renovated farmhouse exists as a sustainable community-owned centre for learning, eating and exercise, where all can learn, work and grow together to develop a flourishing community and place.
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Led by the young people of Broughton High School who want to make a difference in their community by providing a safe and inclusive space where all are welcome.
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Our chocolates are handmade by women who have touched the Scottish criminal justice system and are making positive changes in their lives. Through making and selling our chocolates the women receive support, work experience and the opportunity to raise their self- esteem helping lower barriers faced in finding fulfilling work.
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Columcille is a day support service in the Morningside area of Edinburgh supporting adults with learning disabilities to participate in creative activities in a community setting.
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The Community Alliance Trust, commonly known locally, as CAT is a development trust or charity. Its role has evolved over time to meet growing needs in the area. One look at the Scottish Index for Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) clearly shows the need on various levels this area requires, and CAT (through its various guises) has focused on serving and supporting the community for over 34 years.
Looking for catering with a social conscience? Look no further! Our expert team are happy to cater a wide range of events with hot and cold food.
Coorie Café is a place to meet, eat, and unwind. Our food is made fresh, in house, each day; we use seasonal ingredients from the Broomhouse Growers’ Community Garden, so you know that the ingredients are top-quality.
Cyrenians FareShare, based in Leith, redistributes surplus food from manufacturers and supermarkets to community groups based on a membership system throughout Central and South East Scotland, reducing food insecurity and food waste.
From our Flavour and Haver Cook School, now a food production kitchen, we are responding to the COVID-19 crisis by offering free cooked meals delivered to vulnerable/elderly/ isolated people and families in the community. We also provide meals for NHS staff in Edinburgh as well as people in temporary accommodation.
Managed on behalf of NHS Lothian, the gardens provide opportunities for people to grow their own food, to build community and to keep active within the grounds of the Royal Edinburgh Hospital in Morningside.
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Cyrenians Farm is a community farm near Kirknewton in West Lothian, only 10 miles from Edinburgh city centre. The farm is home to a Cyrenians Community of young people living in peer-supported accommodation and provides opportunities for residents and volunteers to grow food, skills, ideas and confidence.
Edible Estates is a partnership of several organisations which work together to promote community food growing projects. We work across a variety of communities, but our approach is particularly well suited to social housing estates. We use food growing as a tool for urban regeneration, promoting individual health and well-being, and community cohesion.
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Edinburgh Community Food delivers fruit to the work place and fruit and vegetables to the home and is an accredited REHIS centre for health and hygiene training. All of its profits go back into its community work in Edinburgh to encourage healthy eating and cooking on a budget in disadvantaged areas.
Edinburgh Food Social is a social enterprise teaching young people and communities about local, seasonal food.
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Edinburgh Printmakers was the first open access print studio in the UK. They play a leading role in connecting studios and workshops.
Equal Exchange is a worker owned co-operative based in Edinburgh that sells its own brand of Fair Trade and organic food and drink to retailers and caterers throughout the UK.
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Donate and buy quality preloved furniture, homeware, appliances & gifts - affordable and for a good cause. Open 7 days a week.
Four Square Park Café is located in Saughton Park, Edinburgh. It offers a relaxed setting where you can enjoy fresh food and drinks while directly supporting Four Square, a local charity that helps people experiencing homelessness across the city.
Goodies operates in and around Edinburgh to redirect food and resources to reduce waste, support people and build community. The items are redirected to people facing financial insecurity.
They also run a community cafe in the centre of Edinburgh, offer incredible event catering and have a furniture store to help families that need it and students that need to dispose of it once classes have finished.
They also run a community cafe in the centre of Edinburgh, offer incredible event catering and have a furniture store to help families that need it and students that need to dispose of it once classes have finished.
Arts & Creative, Arts, Crafts & Design, Business Services (B2B), Cafes, Care and support services, Catering & Food, Catering Services, Christmas, Classes & Training, Clothing, Fashion & Textiles, Corporate Awaydays, Coworking, Ethical & Fair Trade, Furniture, Office and coworking spaces, Space Hire, Support Services, Venues and performance spaces, Vulnerable & Disabled
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The Grassmarket Community Project supports people through transitions in their lives and re-connects the disengaged. They run four social enterprises through the project: their successful wood workshop GrOW, creating bespoke pieces of furniture from recycled wood; a purpose-designed conference and event space; a cafe and catering service and the manufacture of tartan items including their very own "greyfriars" tartan.
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Hadeel sells a wide range of Palestinian hand-crafted, Fairtrade gifts, including hand-carved olive wood, stunning embroidery and a variety of other gift items both online and in store. Hadeel provides a sustainable source of income for craftspeople working with social enterprises in the West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon, Galilee and the Negev.
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CaféLife is a welcoming, family and dog friendly community café in the heart of Stockbridge. We use fresh, healthy ingredients to create affordable, nutritious meals for everyone.
Innovative fundraising initiative that enables our customers to support a great cause every time they enjoy a coffee or bite to eat. It is also a popular space to hire as a venue for your upcoming events.
Locavore is a social enterprise which exists to build a sustainable food system which is better for people and planet.
Gorgie City Farm is a free-entry city farm. It serves as a unique outdoor resource offering hands on educational and learning opportunities for all our visitors and offers educational tours and workshops for organised groups.
Arts & Creative, Cafes, Care and support services, Catering & Food, Catering Services, Children & Young People, Classes & Training, Community Wealth Building, Corporate Awaydays, Food & Drink Retail, Gyms, Fitness & Sport, Health & Wellbeing, Office and coworking spaces, Social Care & Elderly, Space Hire, Support Services, Venues and performance spaces, Vulnerable & Disabled
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A local hub for sports, recreation, and community fun, welcoming adults, children, and families from across Edinburgh.
The One World Shop is a pioneering fair trade organisation. We’re based in Edinburgh, Scotland and have been sourcing and selling the very best in fairly traded products from around the world since 1983. We sell a wide range of ethically sourced gifts, and grocery items; a lot of our products are also organic.
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Our vision is that Edinburgh becomes a creative, participative city in which everyone is able to access the spaces and resources they require to pursue their own creativity, no matter who they are and what form it may take.
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Rhyze is a working farm and education project. As part of a global movement for agroecology, we work with decomposing fungi and worms to repurpose waste, improve soil health and empower communities.
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An old farm steading now home to a collection of small creative businesses in the heart of Midlothian hosting quarterly seasonal markets and events.
A hub for many local community groups to meet in, deliver workshops in and to fundraise from.
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The Scottish Storytelling Centre provides a home for Scotland's stories in the heart of Edinburgh, showcasing traditional arts year round, where modern meets mediaeval architecture for an enticing mix of past and present.
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Scran Academy is a catering social enterprise on a mission to see every young person, regardless of background or barrier, realise their full potential in learning, work and life. Too many young people in our most challenged communities never realise their talents or aspirations due to the effects of social inequality and poverty. They have two cafes, have a van used for events around Edinburgh and offer much more.
A cooperative in Edinburgh working for a world without waste!
We empower our community to live a low carbon life. Become a member and learn to fix a bike, swap your pre-loved things, enjoy some rescued food and be inspired by new ideas.
We empower our community to live a low carbon life. Become a member and learn to fix a bike, swap your pre-loved things, enjoy some rescued food and be inspired by new ideas.
We provide Sikh and other minority women with access to information, employment training advocacy, support and a wide variety of other services. Sikh Sanjog also operates a community cafe (Punjabi Junction) and outside catering from Leith Walk.
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Socially-conscious gift boxes where every product inside has a unique story of social change.
Business Services (B2B), Cafes, Care and support services, Catering & Food, Catering Services, Children & Young People, Coworking, Food & Drink Retail, Health & Wellbeing, Healthy Eating & Food Growing, Mental Health & Support Services, Office and coworking spaces, Social Care & Elderly, Space Hire, Support Services, Venues and performance spaces, Volunteering, Vulnerable & Disabled
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Space @ The Broomhouse Hub is a Scottish Award-nominated charity championing community development and bringing people together.
Cafes, Care and support services, Catering & Food, Food & Drink Retail, Health & Wellbeing, Healthy Eating & Food Growing, Mental Health & Support Services, Office and coworking spaces, Social Care & Elderly, Space Hire, Support Services, Venues and performance spaces, Volunteering, Vulnerable & Disabled
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The Eric Liddell Community is an Edinburgh care charity, social enterprise and community hub founded in 1980, in memory of the inspirational Olympic gold medallist, Eric Liddell whose win in the 1924 Paris Olympics was the subject of the film ‘Chariots of Fire’.
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The Pitt is an award winning street food market, with a 700 capacity venue space and both indoor and outdoor markets, alongside street food vendors, a bar and much more.
We’re your cosy neighbourhood café bistro nestled in the heart of Davidson’s Mains Village.
Transition Edinburgh South (TES) is part of the transition movement created by people working together in local areas towards transformative change that significantly reduces carbon emissions, meets social needs, enables sustainable lifestyles, and creates new forms of collaborative democracy and decision-making.
Upmo an Edinburgh-based charity providing support and opportunity for adults with learning disabilities and autism.
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YOU CAN COOK organises cookery classes, demonstrations and workshops on nutrition and food related issues all over Scotland. We customise all our services to suit our client's needs. We provide all the equipment and we travel to you.
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Youdom Suya CIC is a trading social enterprise that uses food, culture, and community-led events to generate income while delivering measurable social impact.
