Eaga Partnership
- The Energy Action Grant Agency, the Eaga Partnership, was established as a not-for-profit company in 1990. Following ownership changes at the tail-end of the 90s, the organisation became 100 per cent employee-owned - a business model that has proved successful for a handful of household names, most notably department store chain John Lewis.
- As a group - Eaga also operates out of offices in Tyneside, Bristol, Cardiff and Dungannon - annual turnover is comfortably north of the £200 million mark. The Edinburgh operation is a major contributor, generating income of more than £50m.
"We may well be the largest employee-owned social enterprise in Scotland," says Mr Scobie, who jokes that his official job title, director of Scotland, makes him sound "very William Wallace". [1]
Installing central heating
- IT was hailed as a key accomplishment of devolution and remains a cornerstone of the Scottish Executive's policy programme. Free central heating for the elderly, ministers argue, will help eradicate fuel poverty a decade from now.
- The ambitious multi-million-pound scheme was unveiled by the then communities minister Wendy Alexander in 2000 with the promise of an April 2001 start. Time-consuming European rules on allocating government contracts saw that date come and go.
- When Edinburgh-based Eaga Partnership was eventually appointed to oversee the initiative in late August of that year, a sizeable backlog had built up.
- Four and a bit years on, and heading into what could turn out to be one of the coldest winters on record, the programme appears to be running at full speed. [2]
Notes
- ^ SCOTT REID BUSINESS EDITOR Firm turns the heat up on winter woes Evening News, Fri 2 Dec 2005.
- ^ SCOTT REID BUSINESS EDITOR Firm turns the heat up on winter woes Evening News, Fri 2 Dec 2005.
