‘Social enterprise hotel’ to open doors for the vulnerable

5th July 2010, 4:22pm

The UK’s first ‘social enterprise hotel’ could be launched if plans currently underway in Inverness go ahead, according to a BBC news report.

Highlands-based charities Albyn Housing and the Calman Trust have joined forces to try and secure funding for the 100 room hotel, café and restaurant, which has been modelled on similar projects in the Netherlands.

If plans go ahead, the hotel will offer vulnerable young people the opportunity to gain experience and qualifications in the hospitality industry by working alongside staff in running the hotel.

The organisers hope to have the building open by 2014.

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06 July 2010 at 11:54am

Really pleased to see another social enterprise developing. Full members of Social Firms UK Six Mary's Place have been operating in Edinburgh for years now. http://www.sixmarysplace.co.uk/index.html We also had MIC Hotel & Conference Centre at our annual Social Firms UK Conference in Cambridge last week.

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