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12 May 2008 - Business and Strategy Planning
Coin Street, 108 Stamford Street, London, SE1Monday 12th May, 10am to 4pm. Planning prevents poor performance: most enterprises or projects fail because of poor planning. This workshop is a practical approach to strategic planning and takes you through the various aspects of developing and updating your organisational strategy effectively and getting a business plan together. You will also learn to ensure that your vision, milestones, goals and outcomes are understood and shared by others in your team. Interactive exercises will lead you through the various potential pitfalls and contingencies that you need to have considered and provided for. You will leave with an improved understanding of organisational strategy and the ability to develop or update your own. Cost: £75Contact:Anna TurnerTel:020 7785 6295Email:15 May 2008 - Joining the dots - Connecting the evidence base for homelessness policy and practice.
CCT Venues Smithfield, LondonThis is the only conference that offers policy makers and service managers the chance to talk directly to researchers about their findings and understand, through interactive workshops, how they are relevant to their work. Getting to grips with the evidence base helps them provide the best possible services to their customers and allocate resources most effectively. At the same time, researchers have the chance to discuss and share the practical application of their work directly with those who realise change in policy and practice.Contact:Kate AlawayTel:020 7960 3032Email:Website:22 May 2008 - Annual Mentoring and Befriending Conference 2008 - A force for social cohesion and inclusion
Hilton Deansgate ManchesterJoin over 300 mentoring and befriending stakeholders and practitioners at the annual mentoring and befriending national conference. This event gives you the opportunity to learn and network with the community and is specifically designed to tackle the issues that are affecting you today. Phil Hope, Minister for the Third Sector, is the keynote speaker at this year’s event. His support is not only recognition of the impact of mentoring and befriending in our society, but also underlines the commitment of policy makers to the role of mentoring and befriending as a support mechanism. The conference picks up on this theme, looking at the challenges and opportunities that the sector faces in relation to supporting those socially and economically disadvantaged. Conference highlights include: • Panel discussion - Turning policy into practice; • Motivational speaker - David Robinson, OBE; • 30 interactive workshop – themes include policy, research and strategy; commissioning, partnerships and funding; programme development and management; • Participants’ view – peer mentees, befriendees and mentees take to the stage. The response received so far has been outstanding, with over 150 practitioners confirming their attendance. All workshops will accommodate a maximum of 25 delegates, therefore places are limited. Book your place by simply completing the booking form online, fax in the booking form or calling us on 0161 787 8600Contact:Helen FentonTel:0161 787 8600Email:Website:03 Jun 2008 - Social Enterprise and the Voluntary Sector
St Thomas Centre, Ardwick Green North, Manchester M12A conference to examine the potential and pitfalls of social enterprise for the voluntary and community sector. Social enterprises are businesses with primarily social objectives whose surpluses are mainly re-invested for community benefit, rather than being driven by the need to maximise profit for the shareholders and directors. With social enterprise currently high on the policy agenda and government keen to increase its take-up among third sector organisations, just how relevant is this business model for VCS organisations seeking to achieve more effective social outcomes and organisational sustainability? With a combination of presentations, workshops and case studies, the conference will debate the pros and cons of social enterprise for the sector. Bookings: sue.barrett@gmcvo.org.uk or telephone 0161 277 1001.Contact:David SutcliffeTel:0161 277 1011Email:Website:16 Jun 2008 - CPPS: WHAT REAL IMPACT ARE WE MAKING ON TACKLING SOCIAL EXCLUSION?
The Royal Commonwealth Society, LONDOIs it possible to eradicate an “underclass” in British society? How can we best understand and tackle what causes social exclusion and marginalisation? How can multiple problems of poverty, mental ill-health, domestic violence, addictions, inadequate housing and worklessness best be tackled systemically? How can joint working through PSAs, LSPs, LAAs and MAAs be fully used to overcome exclusion? How can commissioning be most effective in overcoming social exclusion? Where can we expect to be in ten years? Contributors include Naomi Eisenstadt, Director, Social Exclusion Task Force, Cabinet Office; Dr Jo Casebourne, Director of Research, Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion; Sheryl Burton, Director of Social Inclusion, National Children’s Bureau and Rob Wye, Director of Young People’s Learning and Skills, Learning and Skills Council.Tel:01422 845004Email:Website:17 Jun 2008 - Energy and Environment Conference
Church House Conference Centre, Westminster, London.Phil Woolas MP has confirmed as keynote speaker at this years Energy and Environment Conference. Chaired by John Vidal, environment editor at the Guardian newspaper the Energy and Environment Conference promises to deliver a first class conference for speakers and delegates alike with a number of networking opportunities throughout the day to meet and discuss the sector with over 400 professionals from across the industry. Speakers confirmed to date include; John Vidal, Environment Editor, The Guardian; Phil Woolas MP, Minister of State, DEFRA; Maria McCaffery, Chief Executive, BWEA ; Gregory Barker MP, Shadow Conservative Minister for the Environment; Tom Delay, Chief Executive, The Carbon Trust; Keith Parker, Chief Executive, Nuclear Industry Association; Barbara Young, Chief Executive, The Environment Agency; Merlin Hyman, Director, Environmental Industries Commission; Russell Foster, Chief Executive, IEMA; Beacon Council Award Winners, IDeA; Shaun McCarthy, Chair of the Commission for a Sustainable London 2012, Founder Director ActionSustainability. To attend the conference you can call our delegate manager Alexis Guntrip on 0161 832 6000 or register online. Delegates attending the conference will also have a choice of our smaller interactive seminars which run during the day.Contact:Alexis GuntriTel:0161 832 600Website:25 Jun 2008 - Money for Change: evolution or revolution?
Met Hotel in LeedsWednesday 25th - Friday 27th June 2008. CDFA - Community Development Finance Association event. We are delighted to announce the addition of a new plenary keynote address by James Plaskitt MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Work and Pensions. There will also be a new optional site visit on Thursday 26 June. Tiger11 is a new development trust in Leeds funded by Key Fund Yorkshire. Visit a former primary school being refurbished to create a community enterprise centre. For more information and to book online, visit our website (the updated conference brochure and booking form is available to download from the website). Book before 21 May to save 20%Contact:CDFATel:020 7430 0222Email:Website:27 Jun 2008 - Co-operative Congress 2008
Hilton, BlackpoolCo-operative Congress 2008 will take place from 27-29 June. “Co-operative Congress in 2008 and 2009 will continue to build on the success of the event in recent years, to deliver a stimulating and rewarding weekend,” says Dame Pauline Green, chief executive of Co-operatives UK. “We will be looking at today’s key issues for co-operatives and offering the chance for three days of informed debate, discussion and networking.” Co-operatives UK will be working in partnership with The Conference People to organise Congress for the next two years.Contact:Co-operatives UKWebsite: