Senscot Scotland

Aidan is the executive Director of Senscot. He joined Senscot in 2002 and is responsible for co-ordinating Senscot’s activities on a day to day basis. In particular, Aidan oversees the development of new services and setting up new initiatives such as Scotland UnLtd, DTA Scotland, the Social Enterprise Academy and more recently, First Port.

Senscot started in response to Scotland’s many social problems – mainly concentrated in areas of chronic poverty. Their particular role is to recognise the contribution of individual leaders in tackling injustice and to support them and their endeavours.

They call these people social entrepreneurs – individuals who believe passionately in something which will benefit the community – who get their hands dirty doing it and who have the dogged determination to see it through. Senscot was founded by a small group of such people who realised in 1999 that their work would benefit from being connected up with others doing similar things.

Senscot believes that social entrepreneurs and their enterprises have the potential to transform society for the better.

See Aidan Pia’s presentation from the 2010 CED Conference here