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Social Firms UK 2003 Summer School

Summer School 2003

Evaluation

An evaluation of the Social Firms UK 2003 Summer School is available here (pdf format).

Programme

Monday 9th June

From 2pm Registration and checking into bedrooms

3pm Henry Collins Room
Welcome and introduction to the programme (Gerry Higgins & Sally Reynolds)

3.30pm Henry Collins Room (plus Library, Board Room and Study)
The Social Firm Development Exercise (looking at the principles of developing and managing a social firm) (Kevin Robbie & Karen MacLean )

6pm Henry Collins Room
Preparing to create a Social Firm in Australia
(Caroline Crosse and David Young, Mental Illness Fellowship Victoria)

6.30pm Finish

7pm Dinner followed by networking

Tuesday 10th June

9.30am Henry Collins Room
Introduction to Business Planning and Finance (Geof Cox and Guy Turnbull)

10.30am Coffee

11am Small group work groups of 10 (1 finance & funding, 2 business clinics)
Group 1 Finance and Funding (Andy Cox & Gerry Higgins)
Group 2 Business Planning for social firm start up (Guy Turnbull)
Group 3 Business Planning for social firms (Geof Cox)

12.30pm Lunch

1.30pm Business Planning and Finance (those who attended finance and funding in the morning attend business planning in the afternoon and vice versa)
Details of the presentation are here

3pm Coffee

3.30pm Henry Collins Room (plus Boardroom, Library and Study)
How to avoid social firm failure – a case study of social firm closure and exercises looking at how this might have been avoided. - (Kevin Robbie and Karen MacLean )

6pm Finish

7pm Dinner followed by Jazz and networking

Wednesday 11th June

Everyone needs to check out of rooms by 9am

9.00am Henry Collins Room
Presentation; The realities of recruiting and supporting staff in social firms. (Mark Powell of Imby and Reclaim and John Bennett of Pack-It Promotions )

9.30am Personnel and Employment Workshops;
· Involving workers in the management of social firms (Mark Powell)
· Creating the perfect staff team (Sally Reynolds)
· Strategies and systems for dealing with personnel problems (John Bennett)

11am Coffee

11.30am Henry Collins Room
Franchising opportunities for social firms,
Introduction to franchising, Gerry Higgins
Recycled Bottle Glass Company, John Barrett
Shetland Soap Company, Guy Turnbull
Details of the presentation are available here.
Busters Coffee and the IMBY Pub, Mark Powell

1pm Lunch

2pm Topical Issues;
CICs (Community Interest Companies) – Geof Cox
Details of the presentation are available here.
Social Accounting for Social Firms, Gerry Higgins
Access to Finance – Bank of England Report, Sally Reynolds
Social Firm Development Programme 2004/5, Gerry Higgins

3pm Finish and departure

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