Ambitions Scale Up Cohort 2023

Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland are Scotland’s largest health charity working to help people with chest, heart and stroke conditions live life to the full.

Everyone should have the right to live life to the full after a stroke or diagnosis of a chest or heart condition.

The Community Impact Initiative is an award-winning social change organisation committed to the development, improvement, and sustainability of our communities. They are a not-for-profit organisation that innovatively combines skill development and wellbeing support, with community regeneration, housing, and employment opportunities, to achieve positive socio-economic change.

Based in the heart of Hamilton, Families Like Us award-winning Juniors play café is perfect for families with pre-school aged children. Juniors offers families a chance to meet and chat in our popular café while children enjoy our soft play structure, imagination play area and various sessions included daily.

The Tomintoul & Glenlivet Development Trust was established in May 2012 after a period of community consultation on how best to address the economic decline which had been experienced locally, prompted by the two main hotels in the village of Tomintoul closing.

Grow and Thrive's vision is that individuals and families with Neurodivergence (Neurodevelopmental Differences) in Scotland will receive specialist individualised assessment and support from a trusted multi-disciplinary team when they need it.

Govanhill Baths Community Trust (GBCT) is a grassroots anchor organisation based in Govanhill. We were established in 2004 from the historic 2001 Save Our Pool Campaign and have since held as our guiding principle the wellbeing and regeneration of Govanhill.

For nearly thirty years, the International Network of Street Papers (INSP) has championed the street paper movement and supported our independent media outlets to tell stories that are not covered by mainstream media. We believe that people have the right to earn a dignified income and have their stories heard and understood.

Pride Outside provides specialist LGBTQ+ workplace training and consultancy to public, private and third sector organisations. Pride Outside, are on a mission to "create a world where LGBTQ+ people are safe and well." Our Learning Programmes increase LGBTQ+ inclusion and our Wellbeing programmes improve LGBTQ+ mental health and wellbeing.

Radio City Association is a charity organisation based in the Garnock Valley area of North Ayrshire. The organisation has an ambitious strategy to create an 'Electric Valley'.

The activities of the charity are centred on community ownership of renewable energy resources, including a 3MW wind turbine entering construction and a small scale hydro scheme in partnership with Scottish Water. The revenues of the project will allow for sustainable investment in the local community in the coming decades.

Stella’s Voice has been running reuse and recycle programmes for 30+ years. We see far too many items discarded and thrown away, especially items that are slightly marked/damaged. We want to see this behaviour change and more items kept from going to waste.