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TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 2nd
19.00-22.00 Official Opening and Reception at Edinburgh Castle
Delegates will be greeted at the Castle entrance by a Scottish Piper before proceeding on foot to a drinks and canapé reception at the Jacobite Redcoat Hall at one of the worlds most famous castles and world heritage site.
Laurie Russell, Chair of the Scottish Social Enterprise Coalition and CEO Wise Group will Chair the evening introducing each of the speakers.
Councillor Tom Buchanan, of Edinburgh City Council will welcome delegates to the City and outline why Edinburgh is delighted to be the host city for the inaugural Social Enterprise World Forum.
John Swinney Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth will outline the interest of the Scottish Government in Social Enterprise and wish delegates well for the conference.
Jim McFarlane, MD Operations of Scottish Enterprise, will speak about Scotland as a business environment outlining how a strong social enterprise sector complements the growth and development plans of Scottish Enterprise.
John Watt, Director, Highlands & Islands Enterprise, Strengthening Communities Group, will outline the unique characteristics of the highlands and islands of Scotland. John will describe the geography and cultural features that make the highlands and islands a unique place in which to do business with examples of how social enterprises are flourishing with support from HIE and the Scottish Government.
Drinks, Canapes and Networking (with viewing of the Scottish Crown Jewels and performing artists). Delegates will be lead from the Jacobite Room out of the Castle by a marching pipe band.
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 3rd
08:15 Exhibition and Networking, Registration, Tea and Coffee
09:15 Opening Address - Eric Munro, Chair of CEiS and Antonia Swinson, CEO of The Scottish Social Enterprise Coalition
09:30 Keynote Address - The role of Government in supporting Social Enterprise
The speakers and participants will reflect on the most effective methods to support and grow an enterprising social enterprise sector. Speakers will describe the motivation behind investing in social enterprise from a government’s perspective, and to outline the components of an effective support strategy.
Chair, Ruth Parsons, Director of the Public Sector Reform Directorate, Scottish Government.
Jim Mather MSP, Minister for Enterprise Energy and Tourism at the Scottish Government, will describe the initiatives introduced by Scotland’s government to support the sector.
Phil Hope MP, Minister for the Third Sector, UK Government will reflect on the progress and impact since the first social enterprise strategy was introduced in 2002. Phil will consider the key highlights and challenges and will outline how the UK Government views the potential of this sector to make further gains.
10:45 Break and Exhibition
11:15 Keynote address - Funding social enterprise
This session examines the funding requirements of social enterprise and the benefits of investing in social enterprise businesses. What funding models offer best return on investment, is this a government issue or an opportunity for commercial businesses to blend investment with social return?
Introduction by the Chair Sir Clive Booth, Chair of the Big Lottery Fund.
Susan Rice, Chief Executive of Lloyds TSB Scotland, will deliver a video presentation to the Forum.
Michael Trail, Founder and Chief Executive of Social Ventures Australia, will describe the unique SVA model of social investment addressing some of Australia’s most pressing challenges.
Nigel Kershaw of Big Issue Invest’s Social Enterprise Venture Fund which brings both charitable, venture capital and Venture Capital Trust investments into one vehicle.
Manus Fullerton, Corporate & Commercial Director for Lloyds TSB Scotland and director of Social Investment Scotland will join Michael Trail and Nigel Kershaw for questions and discussion facilitated by Crystal Interactive.
12:30 Lunch, Exhibition and Film
13:30-14.15 Keynote address
Social enterprise waste management initiatives as an instrument to tackle poverty, improve health, support the environment and engage communities.
Chair, Gerry Higgins, Chief Executive of CEiS,
Laila Iskander, Managing Director of Community and Institutional Development in Egypt, Unesco’s UNLD Resource Person for the Arab region (2005-2007) and recipient of the Schwab Social Entrepreneurship Prize at the World Economic Forum, May 2006 to discuss the opportunities and impact of supporting communities and individuals to create economic opportunities from waste management.
14:15-15.45 Concurrent Forum Sessions
Forums will commence with short presentations followed by discussion allowing participants to explore areas of interest, identify common priorities and agree actions where appropriate.
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 will discuss 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.
Chair, Chris Higgins of Highlands and Islands Enterprise, outlining HIE’s role and interest in this area.
Ethel Côté, Chair of the Ontario Social Economy Network, Director of Community Economic Development Network and an expert on rural social enterprise from Canada, describes the unique cultural and geographical issues facing social and community enterprise in Canada.
James Hilder, Mull and Iona Community Trust one of Scotland’s leading rural social enterprises outlines the unique issues presented by supporting enterprise in an Island community.
Gonzalo San Martin, Enterprise Development Director for NESsT in Latin America, outlines the NESsT approach to rural social enterprise support in Peru.
FORUM 2: Masterclass from Jerr Boschee – on strategic and tactical marketing, positioning and branding strategies, and the importance of stakeholder engagement.
This Forum is 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 will leave the forum with a resolve to do things differently and the beginnings of an action plan dealing with marketing their social enterprise. Boschee will describe ten basic principles of marketing and introduce “The Strategic Marketing Matrix for Social Entrepreneurs”®.
FORUM 3: Social Return and Impact Measurement (Edinburgh Suite)
The forum explores 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 will examine the worldwide rise of social accounting, social auditing and social return on investment as performance and impact measurement processes for social enterprises.
Chair, Gillian Gray, Business Advisor and lead on Social Accounting at CEiS
Alan Kay from Social Audit Network (SAN) supports social economy organisations to identify an appropriate performance and impact measurement system and works with those already engaged in measuring performance and impact but who require to develop improved, specific skills. Alan will cover the broad context of social auditing, outlining its distinct characteristics using case studies from the SAN enterprise portfolio, highlighting the challenges and opportunities for impact measurement.
Jeremy Nicholls, Chair of the Institute of Social and Ethical Accountability will talk broadly about Social Return on Investment (SROI) and its principles. Jeremy will outline the importance of changing the way we understand value and how measurement contributes to legislation and consumer demand in driving this change and how SROI can be part of this.
Michael Trail, Chief Executive of Social Ventures Australia will outline how SVA has developed an impact measurement system using SROI, outlining the main characteristics of this system and its application within the SVA social enterprise programme.
FORUM 4: Developments in Social Enterprise Funding and Financing
This forum will discuss 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 will examine these trends and discuss transferability of strategies and experience.
Chair, Scott Anderson, CEO of Social Investment Scotland.
Andrew Muirhead of Lloyds TSB Foundation and Inspiring Scotland a new initiative described as an exciting new way of using money and skills to improve the lives of Scotland’s most vulnerable people.
Dharmendra Khanani, Director for Scotland, Big Lottery Fund which gives grants to community groups and good causes but is also focused on improving the ability of social enterprises to create products and services that benefit society and to bring them to market.
Nicole Etchart Co-Founder and CEO of NESsT, and organiser of the NESsT-ABN AMRO Social Enterprise Competition, a collaborative effort between both institutions that forms an integral part of the NESsT Venture Fund (NVF) in Chile
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 to trade with the general public or business customers, thereby having a larger and more diversified customer base than those that focus on government or public authority clients. This session will explore the issues for social enterprise in identifying and securing a sustainable customer base and developing the systems and infrastructure appropriate to this marketplace.
Chair; Sandy Watson, Scottish Enterprise.
David Whyte from Haven Industries in Scotland, a social enterprise of the year prize winner 2007 outlines the relationships Haven have developed with Commercial customers and how these are maintained.
Eric Lombardi, Executive Director of Eco-Cycle Inc, USA. Eco-Cycle has been promoting recycling for over 30 years with a mix of contracts from business and the public sector. Eric will describe how EcoCycle maintains its position of being the leading social enterprise practitioner in recycling and zero waste in the USA.
Duncan White founder of Liberation Foods, a social enterprise selling exclusively Fairtrade-certified food products, describes his experience to have new and high value products accepted by supermarkets and relevant retailers.
FORUM 6: Social Enterprise in adversity
The forum will examine the relationships between developed countries and NGO’s to support social change and assist local economic development.
Chair Geoff Pope, Third Sector Division, Scottish Government.
Frank Millsopp of the Aga Khan Foundation, working in Afghanistan to support social and community enterprise is difficult and very challenging conditions.
Gerold Schwarz of the International Organisation for Migration in Kosovo, will describe the relevance of social enterprise in areas of political instability.
Gbenga Ogunjimi of Landmark Internship International in Nigeria (tbc), a social entrepreneur deploying internships, volunteer and entrepreneurship programmes in Africa will outline the barriers, challenges and impact from supporting enterprise development with internship programmes.
FORUM 7: Paying for Productivity
This session will examine 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.
Chair; Jim Mullan, General Manager, Kibble Works and CEiS Director
Sally Reynolds, CEO of Social Firms UK, Peter Stadler, FAF Germany, Caroline Crosse from Social Firms Australia, and Pauline Graham, CEO Social Firms Scotland, will;
a) Outline the system in use in their country to provide support
b) Describe the advantages and best features of that system
c) Identify weaknesses and areas for improvement The discussion will capture views and experiences from other countries and explore if a common approach or shared actions might be useful in addressing the issues faced by support agencies and enterprises.
15:45 Keynote Address and Coffee - Changing Societies - a focus on breakthrough social enterprises
Specialisterne and Divine Chocolate are award winning, innovative and exciting businesses that are bringing benefit to individuals and communities and inspiring others to think and act differently.
Chair Anne-Marie Allan, Enterprise Support Service Manager, CEiS
Sophi Tranchell – CEO of Divine Chocolate, the 2007 Social Enterprise of the Year in the UK, operating in Ghana, the UK and the USA will discuss the remarkable journey of Divine Chocolate and how sales in strong consumer markets can be used to support communities in the developing world. Sophi will outline the ownership model which is central to the social mission of the company and how it benefits producers and their communities.
Thorkil Sonne, of Specialisterne, Denmark (“probably the best social enterprise in the world”), will outline how his award winning software testing business, employing people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (asd), is changing attitude and aspiration across the world as workers demonstrate their “competitive advantage”. Thorkil will refer to the work to replicate Specialisterne in other countries.
16.55 Session Close
17:00 Exhibition and Networking
17:30 Close
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 4th
08:45 Exhibition and Networking
09:15 Keynote Address - Opportunities for social enterprise growth from changes to the world and local economies.
The session will assist participants to take a long term view and reflect on the key economic issues that will affect social enterprise in the coming 5 years.
Chair, Jonathan Bland, CEO of the Social Enterprise Coalition.
Charles Leadbeater a leading world authority on innovation and creativity (adviser to Downing Street and author of “Social Enterprise and Social Innovation - Strategies for the next 10 years”) will stimulate consideration of many of the key issues facing social enterprises internationally. Charles will reflect on which business models are most appropriate for social enterprises where the emphasis is on social value rather than high growth and examine if collaborative innovation can open up new opportunities for social enterprises?
David Fenton, Head of Micro Economics at RBS will discuss how global trends have local impact, outlining a number of key economic issues that may impact on the current and future marketplace for social enterprises. Delegates will discuss the challenges and opportunities in the sectors in which social social enterprises operate and will examine entry and exit strategies and strategic developments to improve sustainability.
10:45 Break and Exhibition
11:15 Keynote Address - Achieving wider impact with young people and the business sector
This session will explore the potential of investing in relationships, which can benefit social enterprise in the future and examine why social enterprise is interesting for those from the world of education and business.
Chair Graham Bell, CEO of the Kibble Education and Care Centre
Jim Schorr of the Centre of Responsible Business at Haas Business School, University of California, Board member of the Social Enterprise Alliance, Chair of Net Impact and former CEO of Juma Ventures one of the best known and admired social enterprises in the USA, will discuss how college students are now considering social enterprise businesses as potential career opportunities.
Liam Black, co-founder of Wavelength, formerly of Fifteen and the FRC Group to discuss the potential of engaging the private sector with social enterprise innovation and mission. Liam has created Wavelength to explore the space where social enterprises and the private sector can begin to learn from each other, an innovative and challenging new venture!
12:45 Lunch, Exhibition and Film
13:45 Concurrent Forum Sessions
(Forums will vary in size from 30 participants to 250 participants – the largest forum will utilise Crystal communications for ease of participation)
FORUM 1: Procurement and Social Value
The forum will discuss 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.
Chair, Laurie Russell, CEO The Wise Group, Chair of Scottish Social Enterprise Coalition
David LePage of Enterprising Non Profits, a unique partnership that promotes and supports social enterprise development and growth as a means to build strong non-profit organizations and healthier communities, describes the journey and impact of establishing a Social Purchasing Portal in Western Canada. The Social Purchasing Portal is a successful means to leverage purchasing to include social value, especially from the private sector.
Giovanna Maranzana of Co-operative Villa Perla Service in Genoa outlines the impact of social clauses in Italy where social co-operatives have restricted tenders for municipal contracts to reflect their social impact. This has resulted in a reasonably level playing field where social co-operatives are prioritised for municipal contracts due to their engagement of disadvantaged labour force. The discussion will capture views and experiences from other countries and explore if a common approach or shared actions might be useful in addressing the issues in this area.
FORUM 2: Transferable ideas, strategies and systems (Edinburgh Suite)
This forum will examine the process of transferring ideas and systems across boundaries, cultures and economies. The Presenters will outline their experiences of replicating successful social enterprise models highlighting key learning points. Speaker presentations will highlight issues that had a positive or negative impact on the development of their business; what steps were taken to address this; and the key learning that the speaker would pass on to participants.
Chair, Kevin Smith, Business Adviser and Business Models Specialist, CEiS
Alistair Wilson of the School for Social Entrepreneurs will describe how his business has been expanded through franchising from England to Scotland, Ireland and Australia. Alistair will describe the Operation of a Franchise System.
Nigel Kershaw of Big Issue Invest will give his unique perspective on transferability and will highlight the interest and experience of Big Issue Invest in acquisition as a means of Replication.
Peter Stadler of FAF, Berlin will outline the growth of the CAP social firm supermarket franchise, highlighting markets and business that are suited to replication.
Crystal Interactive Discussion
FORUM 3: Scale and size in social enterprise
The Forum will examine 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.
Chair, John Hughes, Enterprise Programmes Manager CEiS
Klaus Hertrampf of Lebenswelten social firms in Berlin will describe their development of multiple catering businesses including restaurants and contract catering. Focusing on one business sector has concentrated resources and expertise to enable investment in systems, building a management resource and generating economies of scale throughout the business.
Annie Gunner Logan of Community Care Providers Scotland contrasts the operational and strategic challenges faced by the smaller social enterprise care providers with the larger organisations operating in this field. The forum will discuss the tensions between the demand for “personalised” services and the consolidation of contracts for care into larger and larger volumes because this is a challenge for all providers and raises questions about the value base of social enterprise.
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 Forum will involve the leading social enterprises working within the medium of recycling and re-use to support disadvantaged communities.
Chair, James Finnie, Business Adviser and Environment Specialist at CEiS
Terry McDonald of svdp Oregon USA whose work has inspired a range of recycling enterprises around the world to “go to scale”.
Pauline Hinchion from FEAT Enterprise in Fife, a local social enterprise whose innovative mattress recycling project - SpringBack, is the leading mattress recycling enterprise in the UK.
Harri Niukkanen, from Sytrim, Helsinki, currently working with two social enterprises Work & Action and Neo-Act Ltd specializing in recycling and reuse and creating work opportunities for disadvantaged people in Finland.
Panel Discussion begins with contributions from Laila Iskander MD of Community and Institutional Development, Egypt, and Iain Gulland, Director for WRAP Scotland.
FORUM 5: Building Wider Awareness of Social Enterprise
Social enterprises are profitable businesses with a clear social purpose of tacking 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 will highlight awareness raising initiatives which have different methodologies but result in heightened awareness of social enterprise.
Session Chair, Lilas Allen, Director of Communications, The Social Enterprise Coalition, will outline the work of the Coalition to raise the profile of Social Enterprise while supporting members, influencing national policy and promoting best practice.
Social Enterprise Ambassador Peter Holbrook, will outline the Ambassador programme and will describe how effective campaigning can lead to political intervention and ultimately policy change. Peter previously established ‘project sunlight’ seven years ago and has developed the project to become one of the country’s most successful and high profile healthy living centres and one of the region’s most rapidly developing and diverse social enterprises.
Celso Grecco of Altitude Social Marketing will describe how his creation of a Social Stock Exchange in Brazil, working with Bovespa, Brazil’s stock exchange, has dramatically raised awareness of social enterprise amongst social investors resulting in $5m investment of social capital. This initiative, replicated in other countries and recognised by Unesco as unique, is an innovative awareness raising tool bringing social enterprise into mainstream business environment.
Antonia Swinson, CEO of the Scottish Social Enterprise Coalition will outline the SSEC awareness raising initiatives that have increased the visibility and awareness of Social Enterprise in Scotland.
FORUM 6: Buying and Selling
This Forum will explore 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.
Chair, Diana Dalton, Department for International Development (DfID), will outline DfID programmes to support trade as a means of building capacity in developing countries.
Gonzalo San Martin, Development Manager, NESsT (Nonprofit Enterprise and Self-sustainability Team) one of the world’s leading social enterprise support agencies with unrivalled experience of supporting non-profit organisations in developing countries.
Prof. Kovin Naidoo from ICEE in South Africa will share his purchasing model which allows the provision of eye care solutions and blindness prevention throughout Africa, but also creates jobs.
Participants will examine opportunities for collaboration, mutual support and trading prospects where the products of developing countries can reach retail markets through social enterprises in developed countries.
FORUM 7: Food for Thought
The session will examine 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 café’s 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.
Chair Bill Gray, Community Food and Health Scotland
Bruce Davidson, Managing Director of Loch Fyne Oysters, an employee owned business which is one of Scotland’s premier food businesses, with 40 restaurants in the group, supplying Scottish produce worldwide.
Lee Davis, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of NESsT, will outline NesST programmes working with social enterprises in the food sector worldwide, including the successful Budapesto enterprise in Hungary.
Dave Simmers, Community Food Initiative North East (CFINE) in Aberdeen, will outline his work to improve the health and well being of disadvantaged communities and to contribute to their regeneration. Their ‘Fast Fruit’ initiative provides fruit, vegetables and healthy snacks to more than 80 nurseries, schools and voluntary organisations. CFINE have developed a social enterprise to sustain this important work by selling food to oil companies and other businesses in the city.
15:15 Break and Exhibition
15:45 Final Keynote Address – Social enterprise is the right way to do business – it is a business model for 21st century.
This session will highlight the outstanding international potential of social enterprise to become a well understood and well respected business model for the 21st Century. Inspirational social enterprise world leaders will outline their work to put social enterprise on the global map through their work with politicians, business and third sector organisations.
Chair, Kris Prendergast, CEO of the Social Enterprise Alliance will give an SEA perspective on Social Enterprise.
Jim Fruchterman of Benetech discusses how his company and partners use technology innovation and business expertise to solve unmet social needs. Leveraging the intellectual capital and resources of Silicon Valley, Benetech creates solutions that are truly life-changing. Their global endeavors have been instrumental in improving literacy, human rights and landmine detection.
Robert L.E Egger, Founder and President of DC Central Kitchen in Washington, concludes this inaugural Forum with a description of the work and social impact of DC Central Kitchen. Robert will outline his vision for the future of social enterprise, social change and international collaboration.
17:00 Closing Remarks
17:15 Finish
19:00-21:00 Reception in the Garden Lobby of the Scottish Parliament, hosted by Jim Mather MSP, Minister for Enterprise, Energy and Tourism and Trish Goodman MSP, Deputy Presiding Officer (restricted numbers – personal invitation only).
- Featuring a Social Enterprise World Forum Reception for national agencies and event partners to review the experience of the Edinburgh forum.
- Closing ceremony and handover of Social Enterprise World Forum co-ordination to Jan Owen of Social Ventures Australia who will present details of the 2009 World Forum in Darwin, with brief outline of 2010 location and format from Kris Prendergast of the Social Enterprise Alliance.
18:00-20:00 Tourist activities
20:00-01:00 Post-event gathering at the Bongo Club organised by Senscot.
Edinburgh’s Original Multiarts Social Enterprise Venue and Nightclub. Live world music from Makossa. Free entry. 37 Holyrood Road, Edinburgh. For more details, contact anna@senscot.net or visit www.thebongoclub.co.uk
