CURRENT PROJECTS
People, places and performance!
With Tartan Jigsaw comes a passion and a knowledge linked
to places, communities, culture, tourism, nature, environment, health
and technology. From the early years our interests have pushed boundaries and
have led us to take on new projects such as “Future Unwritten” and “Spirit of
Scotland” which explored Augmented Reality with Girvan Town Team and generated
interest and financial support from the Scottish diaspora around the world.
Over the last decade and in one way or another we have been
involved with the Business Improvement District initiative (BIDs). We
worked with Scotland's Town's Partnership to assess the possibilities for
further development of the Largs BID in North Ayrshire and delivered the
BID consultation for OneDalkeith in Midlothian. We even explored the possibility
of rural BIDs, island BIDs and community BIDs rather than business-only BIDs.
On the back of our work with BID related organisations, Tartan
Jigsaw developed the
Destination Optimisation Tool (DOT) in partnership
with another Scottish business Listen Up to measure customer experience and
satisfaction. In October 2017, the
Destination
Optimisation Tool
was launched at the Scottish Parliament as part of
the Scotland's Towns Reception. Since then Tartan Jigsaw has developed the tool to be able to measure the health of a community.
Over the years much has changed, we have seen a change in the way that organisations
and businesses are responding to the challenging context in which we now live. In
the last few years new opportunities have emerged for our founder Ros Halley to
work with other UK and Scottish organisations. Ros was contracted by Support in
Mind Scotland (formerly National Schizophrenia Fellowship) in 2017 to lead an
innovative community approach to improving mental health in two pilot areas
in Scotland.
This work which is
supported by the Scottish Government is breaking new ground in developing an approach
to Community-Led Mental Health and Tartan Jigsaw continues to develop a
Community
Health Monitor
as part of this innovative work. More recently Tartan Jigsaw
has also set up and is now managing Scottish Gas Energy Trust’s new
Covid
Response Fund
, bringing much needed extra financial support to third sector
money and energy advice agencies across the whole of the UK.
Whether identifying
new opportunities, supporting communities, building tourism
destinations, creating new teams or helping national organisations
or charities to make the most of their resources, we are keen to
share our straightforward way of working with others looking to create better
places.
