SOCIAL ENTERPRISE - More for your money

Half day event - 21 April 2009, UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER CENTRE FOR LOCAL GOVERNANCE, Oxford Road, Manchester

The benefits of Housing Associations engaging with Social Enterprises A Centre for Local Governance Conference                                  

The Government is committed to giving Social Enterprises a bigger stake in providing a wider range of key services.
 
At the recent ‘VOICE 09’ social enterprise conference in Birmingham, Cabinet Office Minister, Liam Byrne, announced ambitious proposals for this expansion - laying emphasis on health services, welfare projects, youth clubs and Surestart schemes.

Housing Associations are being increasingly expected to address the worklessness agenda - there is a body of expertise which supports the approach of obtaining training and employment options from a range of contracts.
• In Salford a £500,000 social enterprise contract for repairing voids can provide 10-14 trainees with jobs and high quality training
• In Liverpool  unemployed people are being trained to obtain a HGV Licence linked to furniture supply contracts with a social enterprise
• A repairs contract with a private contractor may only provide 1 apprenticeship per £1.5m spend

However many RSLs are making their contracts bigger - excluding most social enterprises from tendering.  The Riverside Group has been piloting how to ensure inclusion of social enterprises within these large contracts.

This ½  day event will share a wide variety of learning experiences and point the way to future collaboration with contributions  from:

SUZANNE  QUINNEY, Regeneration Officer, Riverside Housing, Liverpool
ADRIAN MORAN, Policy Manager, Homes & Communities
Agency, London
PHIL KNIBB, Director, Neighbourhood Services Company,
Liverpool
MIKAIL CHOWDHURY, Solicitor, Trowers & Hamlins, Manchester

The Conference is aimed at Housing Associations, Social Enterprises and their Partners (statutory and voluntary)

PROGRAMME
9.30   Registration/coffee
10.00  HCA-new perspectives ADRIAN MORAN
10.30  A Housing Association perspective SUZANNE QUINNEY
11.10  coffee break
11.25  A Social Enterprise perspective PHIL KNIBB
11.55  A Lawyer’s perspective  MIKAEL CHOWDHURY
12.15  OPEN FORUM - questions/discussion(all speakers as panel)
12.45  Buffet
                                                                
Fee £50.    3 places for 2 offer.

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Information: Jez Lloyd 0161 275 7830