Firstport
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7 Montgomery Street Lane,
Edinburgh,
EH7 5JT
Currently open funds
Firstport - Social Impact Catalyst Fund
The Catalyst Fund is a new kind of social investment product that support ambitious social enterprises to start and scale their businesses. It offers loans using a flexible, revenue-based repayment model.
Firstport - Launch Me
LaunchMe is Scotland’s social enterprise accelerator. It prepares ambitious social enterprises and community organisations for growth so they can achieve social impact at scale.
Firstport - Step Up loans
Step Up offers 0% interest loans to support social enterprises based in Scotland that require financial support to strengthen and sustain trading.
Firstport - Social Entrepreneurs Fund - Start It
Start It is a funding programme that helps budding social entrepreneurs in Scotland to get their businesses up and running. Funding comes from the Scottish Government’s Social Entrepreneurs Fund.
Firstport - Social Entrepreneurs - Build It
A Build It award is for social enterprises with a track record of trading and social impact and that need salaried positions to take the business to the next level of financial sustainability.
Next deadline: 21 Jan 2027
Firstport - Community Enterprise Fund
The Community Enterprise Fund is a funding programme that helps community organisations to start trading or set up social enterprises in Scotland. It offers grants to be spent over 6 months.
Currently closed funds
Firstport - Social Innovation Challenge
The Social Innovation Challenge is a programme that funds and supports innovators to kick-start solutions that tackle some of the most pressing challenges of our time. The current theme is aligned with four key priorities.
Firstport - Social Innovation Challenge
The Social Innovation Challenge (SIC) seeks to support innovative solutions in the areas of child poverty, growing the economy, climate emergency and sustainable public services.
