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Colleagues can access up to 21 hours of paid volunteering leave per year (pro rata for part time colleagues). During the period 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026, colleagues recorded 989 hours of paid volunteering leave. A total of 125 colleagues participated across 175 volunteering instances, with individual activities ranging from one hour to three days.
SE also operates a constituted Staff Charity Fund which is funded by voluntary pay deductions from SE staff. Staff retiring from SE can also request a £100 donation to be made to a charity/community group of their choice.
The Fund is overseen by a group of staff volunteers and allows any staff member to request donations to be made, on their behalf, to charity and community groups that they have an interest in or a connection to. During 2025 the Staff Charity Fund paid out 89 donations on behalf of staff totalling £35,300.
Scottish Enterprise's first edition Gaelic Language Plan for 2023 to 2028 was published in 2023. During the third year of our plan, we have delivered many activities that promote and celebrate the language and encourage its use including:
We are committed to equality of opportunity, both as an employer and in the services we provide. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (ED&I) is a core pillar of our People Strategy and underpins our ambition to build a fair, inclusive and high performing organisation.
Every two years, we publish an Equality Mainstreaming Report, setting out our progress in meeting the Public Sector Equality Duty and embedding equality across the organisation. Our most recent report, published in 2025, highlights how equality is being mainstreamed across our policies, practices and decision making, both as an employer and as a service provider.