How your morning Coffee could improve your Community

A coffee a day, improves your community in many ways! ☕

We take a look at how Grassmarket Community Project uses the income from Coffee Saints, Greyfriars Tartan and their other social enterprises to help their members and the social return on investment 👪

In town for the Fringe Festival? Make sure to stop off at the Grassmarket or St James Branches and help people at the same time 🤝

📅 Last year they sold :

79,786 hot drinks ☕
17,952 cakes 🧁
Had 14,000 event attendees 🧑‍🤝‍🧑
Made 4100 tartan products 🧶
Held 560 events 🎪

Social Return on Investment is a way of showing how money spent with social businesses, goes back into helping others.

Saving public services money by doing something as simple as buying a cup of coffee, paying for therapy or buying a gift.

👪 Helping those in need.

The money made from these sales was put into helping those most in need.

Figures given based on one person, presenting issues or challenges frequently seen in the gcp membership.

Support provided by GCP across 1 year

4 Meals a week for 40 weeks (£320)
40 Art Group Sessions (£772.80)
40 Woodwork Group Sessions (£4,120)
40 Poetry Group Sessions (£740)
40 Maths Sessions (£740)
12 x 2:1 Wellbeing Support Sessions (£270)
£6,962.80 Est total cost

💰 Costs Avoided

Examples of costs avoided through GCP interventions:

More reliance on NHS Mental Health services Assume 12 GP Appointments (£540)
A&E visit (£166)
4 Psychiatrist appointments (£424)
Assume 12 CPN Appointments (£444)
Assume 3x Mental Health Daycare visits per week (£10,764)
Assume 28 days of Mental Health Cluster visits (£11,984)
£24,322 Est total cos

💸 £17,359.20 Saved

Potential net costs avoided through working with GCP instead of public sector

And it all starts with a cup of coffee!

Changing where you get your morning coffee can have such a huge impact on so many lives.

Buying a new tartan scarf can lead to it & digital skills, literacy, numeracy, wellbeing, creative groups & more.

If you’d like to think about the social return on your money, have a look at our social enterprise directory for products & services across the city with an impact.

🧒🏻 Grassmarket Community Project

Through their social enterprise activities Scran Academy is able to provide :

The Grassmarket Community Project is a community of over 500 people, working together to support positive changes in one another’s lives. They support vulnerable adults in Edinburgh through reconnection, experience and social enterprise.

They are THE good place to be and ALL are welcome.