Nature-Based Accelerator in Glasgow
Glasgow’s Nature-Based Accelerator can help you take it to the next level.
Glasgow’s Nature-Based Accelerator is a 6 month fully funded programme for early-stage nature-based ideas and enterprises that could create positive environmental, social, or economic change in Glasgow.
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The Nature-Based Accelerator was developed by Good Ideas and Glasgow City Council. It’s all about encouraging local and resilient nature-based economies, creating more green jobs, and helping achieve net-zero targets.
What’s a Nature-Based enterprise?
- It uses nature directly or indirectly as a key part of its product, service or process.
- It also supports climate change, health & wellbeing and biodiversity policy agendas.
- It’s not tied to a legal structure and can be a social enterprise, a collective, a charity or a for-profit business.
Here are a few examples: food or other community growing, beekeeping, nature-focused landscape architecture, eco-tourism, urban forestry, biomaterials, carbon off-setting, and vocational & skills training. Find out more here.
Is this for you?
- You are an innovator or entrepreneur, with an idea or an enterprise
- You have an idea that could result in positive social, environmental, or economic outcomes in Glasgow.
- Your idea uses nature directly or indirectly and supports climate change, health & wellbeing and biodiversity loss policies.
- You have a good understanding of what you want to do and the impact your idea could have.
- You have started to explore who your potential customers and beneficiaries might be.
- Your idea will have an impact in Glasgow and could help to achieve the objectives of the open space strategy.
- You understand how your idea could be financially viable.
What’s involved
- 6 month fully funded programme.
- A facilitated process using design thinking methodology.
- 18 interactive workshops (online and in person).
- Working closely with other nature-based enterprises.
- A final launch event connecting you with key stakeholders.
- Expert advice and ongoing support.
By the end of the programme you will:
- Have a clear value proposition and unique selling point (USP).
- Understand who your potential customers are.
- Have a strong peer network of support with others working in a similar field.
- Understand your business model and how your enterprise can be financially viable.
- Have learned from entrepreneurs and experts within the field.
- Identify the social, environmental, and economic benefits your enterprise can have.
- Have access to business support throughout the programme.
- Connect into the wider ecosystem.
- Launch to a network of key stakeholders.
Key dates
- Deadline for applications: 15 April 2022
- Application workshop – Full day, Glasgow: 28 April 2022 (You need to attend this workshop as part of the application process)
- Successful applicants notified: 12 May 2022
- Workshop dates for successful applicants: click here to see the full schedule
The application is straightforward and contains up to 14 questions. If you have all the details of your idea at hand, it will take no more than 15 minutes to complete.
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Need support or have a question?
If you have queries about the application process, criteria or are facing issues with completing the form, contact [email protected].