A SCOTTISH social enterprise supporting youngsters and adults with disabilities has scaled up its operations after accessing over £10,000 of funding with assist from Enterprise Gateway.
Bounce OT is an activity-based service that provides therapeutic providers for youngsters, younger folks and adults with disabilities, and their households, to beat the influence of inequality.
The corporate affords a variety of direct and non-direct assist from registered occupational therapists and licensed play leaders in its very personal therapeutic playroom.
This distinctive room gives a protected setting and is autism pleasant in addition to wheelchair accessible.
All assets supplied by Bounce OT intention to be inclusive for all wants, guaranteeing enjoyable bodily exercise is feasible for all ages and disabilities.
The social enterprise, based in 2017, is the brainchild of occupational therapist Callum MacKinnon.
Whereas learning at Glasgow Caledonian College, Callum needed to arrange an activity-based service that will assist enhance the life high quality of youngsters and adults with complicated wants.
Having efficiently run Bounce OT for 4 years, Callum was on a mission to develop his operations additional and approached Enterprise Gateway in 2021 for assist and steerage.
From the beginning, Callum developed a powerful relationship together with his Enterprise Gateway adviser, Stephen Cranston, who was capable of present one-to-one assist.
This concerned common conferences and discussions over the previous two years, serving to to make sure the regular development of the enterprise and figuring out potential weaknesses.
Having recognized a scarcity of promoting, Enterprise Gateway signposted Callum to grants to assist with branding and advertising and marketing work.
This included establishing Bounce OT’s trademarked brand, tagline, and growing quite a lot of eye-catching banners and leaflets that had been designed freed from cost.
Most lately, Callum, guided by Enterprise Gateway, secured a £10,000 grant from Scottish EDGE’s Younger EDGE award.
The cash has helped towards growing a social replication technique, alongside a brand new franchise enterprise mannequin and a bespoke web site.
Since accessing Enterprise Gateway’s assets, Callum has been capable of broaden Bounce OT’s premises by taking over three rented areas.
As well as, the HR assist Callum obtained has enabled the organisation to have clearer processes, paperwork and contracts of employment.
Bounce OT has loved widespread demand over the previous 12 months, with the distinctive exercise service being requested to occupy quite a lot of pop-up areas.
These included native leisure centres in South Lanarkshire in addition to areas past the Forth Valley area.
Callum MacKinnon, Founding father of Bounce OT stated: “Enterprise Gateway reaffirmed to us the significance of getting wonderful digital advertising and marketing abilities.
“The assist and steerage now we have obtained from Enterprise Gateway over the previous couple of years has performed a big function in our development.
“I’m trying ahead to seeing how we are able to proceed to develop this very important service sooner or later,” Callum added.
Stephen, Enterprise Gateway advisor, stated: “It is vitally rewarding to see Bounce OT’s latest important development.
“Creating advertising and marketing abilities, alongside HR assist have been basic abilities for Callum.
“We’re actually happy to have been capable of work along with the staff to construct these abilities over the past 4 years.”
Enterprise Gateway affords skilled assets, assist and instruments to assist companies and people in enterprise be taught new abilities, create new alternatives and develop sustainable methods for development.
The agency works in collaboration with all kinds of organisations, together with Scottish Authorities, Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise.
