Aimed at providing great opportunity for Edward (8)
I believe the answer is:
targeted
'aimed at' is the definition.
('target' can be a synonym of 'aim at')
'great opportunity for edward' is the wordplay.
'great opportunity for' becomes 'targe' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'edward' becomes 'ted'.
'targe'+'ted'='TARGETED'
'providing' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for targeted that I've seen before include "Took aim at (8)" , "Selected as an object to aim at" , "Aimed at, or set as objective" .)