South of Scotland Enterprise

South of Scotland Enterprise (SOSE) pledges to:

Challenge ourselves to increase the positive impact we make on our local community.

We will do the following things that we don’t do at the moment to improve our social impact.

Signed by Jane Morrison-Ross, Chief Executive, SOSE, January 2023

1st Commitment

Pledge to use Social Enterprise catering at events hosted / facilitated by SOSE  and to contract where possible with Social Enterprise for the delivery of facilities management services - e.g Grounds maintenance services.

Geographical location of impact: South of Scotland
Contact details: SOSE procurement team at Finance@sose.scot       

2nd Commitment

Pledge to develop our use of the SOSE Volunteering policy to make a collective impact -  apply a different structure to the current approach and introduce an approach where SOSE annually chooses a number of  themes around which SOSE staff might focus volunteering support.

Geographical location of impact: South of Scotland
Contact details: SOSE procurement team at Finance@sose.scot       

3rd Commitment

Pledge to establish a SOSE Community Benefits wish list / matchmaking platform -  where requests from communities in the South can be logged - and suppliers to SOSE signposted to same and asked / encouraged to help out re said requests

Geographical location of impact: South of Scotland
Contact details: SOSE procurement team at Finance@sose.scot