Kirsty Thomson, Founder and CEO of social enterprise, The Circle, has been featured in the WISE100 list for the third time. This list, produced every year by NatWest Social & Community Capital in partnership with Pioneers Post, recognises the UK’s leading women in social enterprise and impact investing. Kirsty is the only Dundee-based social entrepreneur on the list. She was featured on the list in 2018, 2022 and again this year.
Kirsty has worked with and for charities, social enterprises and community groups for more than 20 years. In her career she has raised over £14million for these organisations. She launched her first business, ACK Third Sector Consultants CIC in 2012 and then launched The Circle in 2016, merging the businesses in 2019.
The Circle is a social enterprise that offers fair-rent workspace, business support and volunteering opportunities. The organisation has hubs in Dundee and Glasgow and recently revived Dundee’s former Shopmobility service where it lends out mobility devices for free to allow people to travel across the city.
Kirsty was delighted to be named on the list again,
“There are so many amazing women working in social enterprise in the UK, I’m honoured to be recognised alongside them.”
