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Speaker Presentation Material - Day 1 - Wednesday 3rd September
Forum 1 - Excellence and innovation in rural communities
The challenges of creating sustainable economies and thriving communities in rural areas have resulted in some of the world’s most innovative social enterprises and enlightened legislation. This session discussed the challenges of dealing with geographical and cultural barriers, while highlighting the potential of rural social enterprise and how agencies and enterprises can learn from each other.
Forum 2 - Masterclass from Jerr Boschee
This Forum was a Masterclass from Jerr Boschee who has been an advisor to social entrepreneurs in the United States and elsewhere for more than 30 years and is the author of five books about social enterprise, including Boschee on Marketing. Participants left the forum with a resolve to do things differently and the beginnings of an action plan dealing with marketing their social enterprise. Boschee described ten basic principles of marketing and introduce “The Strategic Marketing Matrix for Social Entrepreneurs”®.
Forum 3 - Social Return and Impact measurement
The forum explored social accounting and social return on investment, understanding the areas of overlap, unique features and key issues faced by all those involved in this activity. This forum examined the worldwide rise of social accounting, social auditing and social return on investment as performance and impact measurement processes for social enterprises.
Forum 4 - Development in Social Enterprise Funding and Financing
This forum discussed sustainable models of funding and financing social enterprise drawing from the experience of a panel of funding experts. Funding for social enterprise has become more diverse with a range of loan finance, grant initiatives, investment programmes. The panel examined these trends and discussed transferability of strategies and experience.
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Forum 5 - Social Enterprise Trading Opportunities in the Commercial Sector
In the UK social enterprise development has been linked with reform of public services and much emphasis has been placed on opening up procurement markets. Some enterprises have chosen a different route, preferring to trade with the general public or business customers, thereby having a larger and more diversified customer base than those who focus on government or public authority clients. This session explored the issues for social enterprise in identifying and securing a sustainable customer base and developing the systems and infrastructure appropriate to this marketplace.
Forum 6 - Social Enterprise in adversity
The forum examined the relationships between developed countries and NGO’s to support social change and assist local economic development.
Forum 7 - Paying for Productivity
This session examined the systems in use throughout the world to ensure that people with disabilities or disadvantages requiring in-work support or measures to compensate for low or inconsistent productivity, are supported to have meaningful, productive employment.
Speaker Presentation Material - Day 2 - Thursday 4th September
Forum 1 - Procurement and Social Value
This forum discussed the impact of compulsory procurement clauses on social enterprise growth contrasting this with the unregulated approach to procurement. The speakers have very different operating environments and are using procurement clauses to create social benefit in very distinct ways.
Forum 2 - Transferrable ideas, strategies and systems
This examined the process of transferring ideas and systems across boundaries, cultures and economies. The presenters outlined their experiences of replicating successful social enterprise models highlighting key learning points. Speaker presentations highlighted an issue/ event in relation to their topic that had a positive or negative impact on the development of their business; what steps were taken to exploit/ address this; and the key learning that the speaker would passed on to the audience.
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Forum 3 - Scale and size in social enterprise
The Forum examined whether the economies of scale and management capacity of larger social enterprises helps to make them more sustainable and delivers higher social and economic impact than smaller enterprises.
Forum 4 - Towards a sustainable planet
Throughout the world social enterprises are generating triple bottom line returns by engaging in work that has a positive environmental impact. This involved the leading social enterprises working within the medium of recycling and re-use to support disadvantaged communities.
Forum 5 - Building Wider Awareness of Social Enterprise
Social enterprises are profitable businesses with a clear social purpose of tackling a social or environmental need. Social enterprises play an important role in world economies and building wider awareness is key to assisting social enterprise to realise this potential. This session highlighted awareness raising initiatives which have different methodologies but result in heightened awareness of social enterprise.
Forum 6 - Buying and Selling
This Forum explored if the goods and services sold and purchased by social enterprises can affect the prosperity of developing countries and can lead the way in opening up global markets.
Forum 7 - Food for Thought
The session examined the potential of the food sector to be one of the most significant economic sectors for social enterprises in the future. Food is used as a medium for social enterprises to deliver social objectives through provision of training in cafés and restaurants, employing people from disadvantaged groups in the food industry, or distributing food for community benefit and to improve health and welfare. We explore experiences of those trying to enter and sustain businesses in these competitive sectors.
