AM & PM: 1
SE 101: A one stop shop for advice for aspiring social entrepreneurs
As the profile of the movement continues to grow, more and more people are expressing their interest in learning more about social enterprise and the practical issues involved in setting one up.
This session will provide a general introduction to social enterprise, including what a social enterprise is, and the different models and legal structures available, and offer advice for those hoping to establish a social enterprise business including how to develop a business plan, how to optimise your marketing and how to access finance.
Chair: Matt Knopp, Eastside Consulting
Saeeda Ahmed, Trescom
Abbie Rumbold, Bates Wells and Braithwaite
AM & PM: 2
Public services: Doing more and better for less
In light of the recent economic downturn, the UK now faces sizeable public spending cuts regardless of who is in power. There is a danger that under the guise of increasing ‘efficiency' these cuts will result in reduced investment in innovation, the aggregation of contracts and even standard cuts across all public bodies.
As a sector, social enterprise needs to do more to show how investing now can achieve savings in the longer term. We need to demonstrate that social enterprises, by designing and tailoring services around the need of an individual and place, can lead to more effective and therefore efficient services. We also need to reinforce this with a procurement system that supports rather than hinders innovation.
Chair: Geoff Walker,
Sandwell Community Caring
John Bryant, Torbay
NHS Care Trust
June O'Sullivan,
London Early Years Foundation
Nicola Southall,
Welsh Assembly Government
AM: 3
Creating large scale social change: Is the future of social innovation in the private sector or can social enterprise go it alone?
At a time when the world faces social and environmental challenges like never before, how do we find scalable solutions that will bring about the level of impact required to create real change? Is the answer in the non-profit social enterprise model, will it be through partnerships with the private sector, or is the future of social innovation to be found in private sector multi-nationals?
Chair: Sam Conniff,
Livity
Simon Devonshire, O2
John Motague, Trees
Mark Sesnan, GLL
AM: 4
Enterprising schools: Creating the next generation of social entrepreneurs
In order to secure the future development of the social enterprise sector, it is essential that there is support for the next generation of social entrepreneurs. It's up to us to make all young people aware of social enterprise as a career option and inspire them to create both social good and economic wealth.
This session will explore the many educational routes for fostering a new wave of young social entrepreneurs, including specialist schools, award-winning social enterprise schools projects, and through the curriculum itself.
Chair: Matt Stevenson-Dodd, Youth Enterprise North
West
Caroline Bell,
Holbrook Centre for Autism
Dan McCallam, Awel
Amantawe
Emma McColl, Global
Ethics
AM: 5
Scaling up in the social enterprise sector: Why aren't there more social franchises.
In the light of the impending cuts to public spending it is increasingly important that social enterprise explores opportunities to support the ongoing growth of the movement from within.
One way of doing this is to support the franchising of existing social enterprise models which are successfully supporting themselves and achieving growth. This session will look at organisations that foster, cultivate and incubate new enterprises - organisations that have on the whole developed despite of rather than because of public sector support - and look into what we need to learn from them to grow our movement for ourselves.
Chair: Alastair
Wilson, School For Social Entrepreneurs
Andrew Croft, CAN
Colin Crooks,
Greenworks
John Bennett, Pack-It
AM: 6
Selling social enterprise: How to get consumers to shop social enterprise/ Breaking into consumer markets
In recent years the UK has seen a significant rise in consumer interest in ethical products and services. This development represents an exciting opportunity for social enterprises to market their ethical credentials and attract new customers. But what are the challenges of breaking into this market whilst at the same time staying true to social enterprise principles? And how do you retain your market share when commercial operators copy your approach with their own products?
This session will showcase social enterprises that have developed successful business models in this market and discuss market growth and the future potential of ethical consumer products.
Chair: Vivian
Woddell, The Phone Coop
San Leonard, Social
Firms Wales
Jacquie Bance,
CaféDirect
AM: 7
Creative finance: Funding the future of social enterprise
Access to finance is a key factor in ensuring the continued growth of the social enterprise sector. The benefits that social enterprises bring, in terms of achievement of social and environmental goals as well as financial objectives, will stand them in good stead in these changing economic times. The ideas currently being explored, including a social investment wholesale bank, community share issues, a social stock exchange and social impact bonds, could revolutionise the social finance landscape.
This session will showcase some of the leading innovations in the area of social finance and highlight the difference they could make to the social enterprise sector and society as a whole."
Chair: Eric Munro,
Director, Community Banking, Royal Bank of Scotland Group
Toby Eccles, Social
Finance
Naomi Kingsley,
London Rebuilding Society
John Kingston, CAF
Venturesome
AM: 8
Housing associations and social enterprise: More than just a roof
Social enterprises and housing associations are natural allies. Housing associations are in themselves social enterprises through their work in providing affordable homes for people in housing need. However for many housing associations their objectives go well beyond housing and they play a significant role in regeneration, economic development and in providing a wide range of essential services to the communities they serve.
This session will look at ways in which housing associations can support the creation of social enterprises within their communities and work with social enterprise through contracts to deliver services.
Chair: David Orr, National Housing federation
Nigel Draper, V2C
Homes
Martin Kinsella, P3
Andrew Lycett, RCT
Homes
PM: 3
Social media: Stepping into the world of web 2.0
The world has changed. Thanks to the internet, people are connecting across geographic, social and economic boundaries, collaborating and sharing information and breaking the traditional rules of business. iTunes, Twitter and open source projects such as Wikipedia are some of the best examples of how the internet is joining people up in very different ways in a new age of information.
This presents a huge challenge and opportunity for social enterprises who themselves break the rules of businesses and are by their nature increasingly collaborative.
This practical and interactive session will explore how social enterprises can make the most of these changes - from marketing using new media forms such as blogging and Twitter, to using new tools to better connect with customers, and to build & mobilise communities.
Chair: Nick Temple, School for Social Entrepreneurs
Ben Matthews, Bright
One
Alberto Nardelli,
UnLtd World
PM: 4
Back on track: Social enterprise solutions in criminal justice
Social enterprises are effective vehicles for delivering offender management interventions and tackling the wide-ranging factors that contribute to offending behaviour, from individual mental health and behavioural issues to more general problems of social exclusion and economic deprivation.
The contribution social enterprise can make to the broad spectrum of the agencies within the criminal justice spectrum is beginning to be widely recognised. Increasingly prisons, probation boards/trusts and other agencies are engaging with or establishing social enterprises to deliver the outcomes they desire.
This session will introduce research commissioned by the National Offender Management Service which evidences social enterprise activity within prisons and probation services. It will go on to showcase some of the most creative and innovative models of social enterprise activity in this field across England and Wales.
Chair: Nicky
Stevenson, The Guild
Sarah Dunwell, Create
CIC
Amanda Palmer Royce,
Eco-Actiff
Stephen Ray, North
Wales Probation Service
PM: 5
Social enterprise and healthcare: Delivering a high quality, cutting edge service.
The
development of social enterprise is a key part of health and social care reforms
as they make valuable contributions in addressing health inequalities,
improving citizen involvement in our care and improving outcomes and promoting
service quality. Social enterprises can also give health and social care
professionals the freedom to design and manage services to better meet the
needs of users and the community.
This session will provide powerful examples of actions that can be taken to
support this agenda including practical examples of where social enterprises
have brought about change. It highlights the different models social
enterprise can take - from larger employee led organisations to
community based interventions. It will also provide social enterprises and
commissioners with practical tools and techniques to initiate improvements to
care.
Chair: Rebecca
Chaloner, Department of Health+
Lance Gardner,
North-East Lincolnshire PCT
Richard Kramer,
Turning Point
Jo Pritchard, Central
Surrey Health
PM: 6
Greening social enterprise: How social enterprises can measure and reduce their environmental impact
Social enterprise of all types is driven to measure and reduce the environmental impact of its business activity. This workshop will seek to offer practical advice on how to green your social enterprise and engage with your local community. Specifically, it will look at case studies of successful green enterprises and also examine ways for social enterprises to assess their carbon impact and put in place practical strategies to introduce new carbon reduction policies in their organisation and local community.
Chair: Nigel Lowthrop, Hill Holt Wood
Richard Northridge, Cwm Harry Land Trust
Matthew Thompson LCRN
PM: 7
Mergers and acquisitions: Are mergers and acquisitions counter cultural for social enterprise?
In the emerging social enterprise sector, maximising social impact through growth has been an increasingly prominent topic for discussions on the future of the movement. Yet anecdotally few social enterprise leaders are confident to take on growth for fear of mission drift, dilution of values or loss flexibility to respond quickly and creatively to local need.
What can social enterprise learn from commercial business about inorganic routes to growth? What are the commonalities and the differences? And what are the benefits and pitfalls for social enterprise leaders who are thinking of these routes to growth? This session will attempt to explore these questions.
Chair: Denise Holle,
Craig
Dearden-Phillips, Speaking Up
Dai Powell , HCT
Fay Selvan, The Big
Life Company
PM: 8
Women and social enterprise: Why women are finding a natural home as leaders of social enterprise
Research figures recently released by the Social Enterprise Coalition found that women are far more likely to be in positions of leadership in social enterprise than in the traditional small and medium business sector. Twenty-six per cent of social enterprises could be described as ‘women-led' which is almost twice as many as compared to small businesses for which the figure is 14%. But while considerable effort has been made to attract women to establish mainstream enterprises, to date little has been done to attract and promote women in social enterprises.
This session will do exactly that - it will showcase some of the most successful women led social enterprises in the UK - highlighting factors critical to their success and examining why social enterprise is such an attractive career choice for women.
Chair: Jo McGrath,
Blackburne House
Angela Asieba, Nubia
Magazine CIC
Sally Reynolds,
Social Firms UK
