Events
APPG AGM and seminar on the role of social enterprise in the Big Society 29th June 2010
Date: 29th June 2010
For more information: appg@socialenterprise.org.uk
Following the election of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition Government, this seminar aims to explore what the Government's Big Society vision means for social enterprise. In particular, we will be discussing public services, supporting the growth of the movement and the Big Society Bank.
Keynote speakers will include Geoff Walker, CEO of Sandwell Community Caring Trust and Andrew Croft, CEO of CAN, both leading figures from the world of social enterprise.
Joint APPG-London Early Years Foundation lecture on social enterprise childcare 19th November 2009
Hosted in partnership with the London Early Years Foundation, this lecture focussed on the current debates surrounding child poverty and early years education.
Clare Ticknell, CEO of Action for Children and one of the leading figures in the sector, presented the keynote speech at the event. Clare discussed key findings from Backing the Future, a report by the new economics foundation and Action for Children, before the session opened up for a question and answer session with a panel of similarly distinguished and special guests including Baroness Verma.
APPG seminar on building the evidence base for social enterprise 19th November 2008
Following the launch of several new research initiatives in social enterprise this year, the All Party Parliamentary Group on Social Enterprise hosted a seminar on Wednesday 19th November to discuss building the evidence base for social enterprise.
The meeting was chaired by Margaret Moran MP, and was opened by Fergus Lyon, Professor of Enterprise and Organisations at Middlesex University, who gave an overview of the state of research into social enterprise. The discussions then focused on evidence to support social enterprise within the health and social care sector, with presentations from Emma Wilson, Chief Executive Local Care Direct and Brian Strevens, Chief Executive SCA Group.
The parliamentary speakers were Phil Hope MP, Minister of State for the Department of Health, and Norman Lamb MP, the Liberal Democrat Shadow Secretary of State for Health, who gave valuable insights into what evidence was need from the perspective of policy makers in the field of health.
APPG evidence session on social enterprise transforming local communities 17th July 2008
The first policy meeting of 2008 of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Social Enterprise was held in the House of Commons on Thursday 17th July, followed by a reception hosted by the Social Enterprise Coalition. The meeting focused on the role social enterprises play in transforming local communities.
The meeting was chaired by Margaret Moran MP, the secretary of the Group, and the speakers were Baroness Andrews, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Department of Communities and Local Government; Eric Pickles, the Shadow Minister for the Department of Communities and Local Government; and Julia Goldworthy, the Liberal Democrat shadow minister for the same department. The packed audience consisted of social enterprise leaders, policy advisors and parliamentarians.
Nigel Lowthrop from social enterprise Hill Holt Wood and Dai Powell from HCT Group also presented to the APPG. They highlighted the impact their social enterprises have had in transforming their local communities and laid down challenges to policy-makers about what is needed to support organisations like theirs.
APPG party 8th January 2008
The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on social enterprise held a party on 8th January 2008 in Portcullis House. At the event over one hundred peers, social entrepreneurs and supporters of the movement celebrated the social enterprise successes of 2007. The event was hosted by Andy Love MP.
Speakers included APPG Chair Baroness Glenys Thornton, Minister for the Cabinet Office Ed Miliband, Shadow Children's Minister Tim Loughton and Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for the Treasury Lord Newby.