Common Good First wins award and Government grant

In March 2016, Common Good First won a distinguished Cordes Innovation Award in celebration of its work with community partners.

The platform was recognised by Ashoka U, a global network of universities and colleges which focuses on social innovation, for its ambitions to identify, showcase and connect social impact projects to each other, and to universities for research, evaluation, teaching and student engagement. Following the award, Sandra White, GCU’s local MSP, congratulated the digital project in a motion to the Scottish Parliament.

Later that month, Common Good First also won a grant of £25,000 from the Scottish Government’s Social Enterprise, Social Innovation and Social Investment department as part of its social enterprise strategy.  This is to fund expertise in promoting the project in Scotland and beyond, to help develop the website and digital storytelling modules and to consider how Scottish social innovation projects can be involved in the network.  Former BBC Scotland apprentice and now freelance media expert, Will Gardner has joined the team to help deliver this.