Scale Accelerator Badges

To earn a badge, each organisation has to successfully go through two stages:

1. Selection

   Every accelerator attracts hundreds of organisations, but of all of those, only a few match the criteria for the programme in question. Organisations are assessed rigorously on their mission, their model, their leadership, and their potential to scale meaningfully.

   Most applicants are not accepted. Those that are have already cleared a high bar before the programme begins.

2. Completion

   Selected organisations go through a structured, expert-led programme combining one-to-one consultancy, training, and deep strategic support typically over many months to years.

   By the end, they have interrogated their model, tested their assumptions, and built a concrete plan for sustainable growth.

   The badge marks the ambition that got them selected, and the rigour of what followed.

The Leaders of Scale Badge

Some programmes include our 6-month Leaders of Scale training for individual leaders from participating organisations. Where participants complete this training successfully, they receive a training certificate to recognise this achievement.

These badges are held by individuals, not organisations, and can only be displayed on individual profiles. They accredit the skill training received by an individual not organisational readiness.

Carrying the Scale Accelerator badge as an organisation signals that the organisation:

1. Has been identified from a competitive application pool as high-potential for impact at scale.
2. Completed a structured, expert-led programme designed around their specific context and scaling ambition
3. Has done the strategic work; tested assumptions, interrogated their model, built a plan for sustainable growth

You can find all the organisations that have been awarded a full Scale Accelerator badge in our Alumni Directory here.

Completed a Scale Accelerator but haven’t claimed your badge? 
Reach out to our team.

When you see the badge on a website, LinkedIn company page, or in a presentation deck, you’re looking at an organisation that didn’t just consider scaling, but one that has done the work to understand what it actually takes to get there.

The badge tells you three things:

• this organisation was chosen from a competitive pool,
• they completed a deep scaling programme,
• they’ve built a strategy for what comes next.

It supports your assessment and consideration of them. Organisations that have spent time thinking deeply about their scale strategy are more likely to be working toward long-term impact and building a sustainable, diversified model that does not solely rely on any single funder indefinitely.

If you’d like to formally recognise the badge as part of your grant-making process, or be listed as a recognising funder, we welcome that conversation. Please email our programmes team for further information.

If you have questions about a specific organisation displaying the badge, contact us directly.