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Latest revision as of 11:42, 18 October 2007

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]

References, Resources and Contact

References

  1. Scott Reid -- Business Editor Firm turns the heat up on winter woes Evening News, 2 December 2005.
  2. Reid, ibid.