Who We Are | ONE

We work with partners to co-create, develop and deliver transformational projects and programmes in the region’s key sectors of food, drink, agriculture and fishing; life sciences; tourism; digital; and oil, gas and energy to grow businesses, create jobs and enhance the entrepreneurial environment.

Through ONE, the private sector shapes the region’s economic future, maximises growth opportunities and creates high-skill, high-value jobs.

More than 90 members drawn from the region's business community, its two universities and colleges, and regional and national partners sit on ONE’s main and sector boards. Their collective experience, insights and connections shape action and delivery with targets set for each of the industry sectors to build on regional opportunities and contribute to national economic goals:

• Grow the food, drink, agriculture and seafood sector by 5% per annum to achieve the Scotland Food & Drink Ambition 2030 target of doubling the industry turnover.
• Double the number of companies in Aberdeen’s life sciences cluster by 2027.
• Support tourism sector recovery in the short term and develop adventure tourism and food tourism market opportunities with transformational projects to drive longer-term growth.
• Grow 10 to 20 digital companies with a turnover of circa £20m and international aspirations by 2028 (developing the tech start-up ecosystem and focusing on industrial digital).
• Enhance the entrepreneurial environment to enable business growth across the key sectors and throughout the entrepreneurial journey.
• Transform the region into an integrated energy cluster focused on accelerating net-zero through energy transition activities.

We focus our activity on five themes across the sectors:

• Transformational leadership and action
• Accelerating business growth
• Driving digital adoption and maturity
• Internationalisation and market development
• Strategic partnership working

ONE has a 10-year £62 million funding commitment from The Wood Foundation and uses its resources to secure match funding to deliver new projects – turning opportunity and ambition into action and investment. To date, a project commitment of £14 million has leveraged co-funding of £42 million from public, private and philanthropic partners.