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voluntary organisations, social enterprises and volunteering
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Scottish EDGE
Created: 06/02/2025
News/Events Category: Funding and Finance
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Scottish EDGE is a competition aimed at identifying and supporting Scotland’s up-and-coming, innovative, high-growth potential entrepreneurial talent. You should have an ambitious growth strategy and a commitment to deliver upon it.
Competitions are:
- Scottish EDGE: For early-stage companies/social enterprises across all sectors, offering funding of up to £100,000 on a split grant/loan basis
- Young EDGE: For companies where all directors are under the age of 30 offering a grant-only award of up to £15,000.
- Wild Card EDGE: For pre-trading companies, sole-traders, and partnerships, offering a grant-only award of up to £15,000
- Social Enterprise EDGE: For social enterprises that clearly demonstrate how its business enriches communities and makes a contribution to society, offering funding of up to £75,000 on a split grant/loan basis
Who can apply
Your organisation must be incorporated at Companies House. Scottish EDGE is open to Ltd Companies and registered social enterprises and charities only.
The company must have been in operation for less than five years, have fewer than 24 employees, have a business bank account, and be capable of employing at least five more people over the next three years.
How to apply
You can only submit one application per round to be entered into the Scottish EDGE, Social Enterprise EDGE, Young EDGE, or Wild Card EDGE category, where eligibility permits. All applications must be submitted using the Scottish EDGE Online Application Portal.
Paper based or e-mail applications will not be accepted.
The closing date for applications is 2.00pm on Thursday 27 February 2025.
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