Social Firms UK

 A half day seminar exploring the precedent and potential for social enterprise run dental services

Summary The provision of frontlinedental services by charities and social enterprises is relatively underexplored in the UK. The SCA Group is one of a small number of existing social enterprises that have expanded into the provision of NHS dental services.

Social enterprise with teeth will explore how social enterprise and other civil society organisations can create and sustain effective dental practices. It will focus on the frontline experience of the SCA Group, which has opened six NHS dental practices in identified areas of high dental need within the last five years. It will also feature high level presentations from Hempsons, one of the leading providers of legal services to existing and emerging dental social enterprises in the UK.

 Does your organisation need a website? Starting from scratch? Have you got an out-of-date website that you find difficult to update?

In just one day, Electroville will teach you all you need to know on writing and producing a website that will promote your organisation's needs and get your message across to a wider audience.

Planning, Designing, Learning, Creating

A brilliant way to take control of your website, to learn about web design basics and to create your own site. For many organisations this will be all they need. For others it is an excellent stepping stone to an independently hosted site giving greater scope, creativity and flexibility.

Ps - these workshops are hands on and have limited space available. Book now to ensure that you get a place.

 Hosted by former television presenter, business journalist & news reader 'Ed Mitchell'

Speakers Lizzie Nelson - Director, Restorative Justice Council Restorative Justice Council Director, Lizzie Nelson, will provide the introductory presentation for the Conference, providing:

 Working Capital is a Social Investment Conference designed to bring together the leading exponents in Social Investment with Social Enterprises and Social Entrepreneurs to learn about emerging products, do deals and undertake business. This is a first for the North of England and we hope this will become an annual event to cement our place as a leading marketplace for Social Investment.

Our Speakers include:

• Nick O’Donohoe, CEO, Big Society Capital
• Jonathan Jenkins, CEO, Social Investment Business
• Jo Hill, Director, UnLtd Ventures
• Jake Hayman, CEO, The Social Investment Consultancy
• Ann Oldroyd, CEO, Key Fund
• Mark Sesnan, CEO, GLL
• Geoff Burnard, Chief Investment Officer, Charity Bank and CEO, Investing for Good

We will also have workshops and a pitching session where you can pitch your idea to a panel of investors.

Social Enterprise Exchange marks the first time Social Enterprise UK and Social Enterprise Scotland have joined forces, bringing together Voice and S2S, the two social enterprise events north and south of the border.

This makes the event uniquely well-placed to create a real exchange: of business, of knowledge, of best practice. It will include:

• high-profile speakers from across the UK and beyond
• masterclasses on social investment and engaging with the private sector
• a substantial networking and trading area
• practical workshops on sales, start-ups, spin-outs, impact measurement, export + more
• 1:1 clinics with expert agencies in the field
• hundreds of exhibitors seeking to do business
• social enterprise event suppliers, including event production partner CEiS Events 

Click here to download the programme

 Good Deals 2011, the UK’s leading social investment conference returns to the Barbican Centre, London on Thursday 24 November.

The agenda will be released over the coming weeks, but already confirmed is Nobel Laureate, microfinance pioneer and serial social entrepreneur Muhammad Yunus, who will be fantastic to hear speak.

Tickets are now on sale and you can save over 20% by booking before Friday 30 September. Early sales have been very strong and if you’d like to attend it’s highly advised to book now. 

Social Firms UK are delighted to be able to offer members an exclusive 20% discount at the Guardian's Social Enterprise Summit 2011, taking place in London on Tuesday 8 November.

Exclusive 20% discount with code - get in touch with Temi for the code: 01737 231 363 / todesanya@socialfirmsuk.co.uk

After sell out events in 2009 and 2010, this year the event is debunking the hype around social enterprise and getting to the facts about the future of social enterprise. The programme will examine what social entrepreneurs, commissioners, investors and policy makers need to do to ensure that the sector thrives in these difficult times.

 ClearlySo, Europe’s largest Social Business Angel Network, will celebrate Social Enterprise in all its forms in its annual Social Business Conferenceon 11th October. The theme for 2011 is ‘All Shapes & Sizes’, reflected in the diversity of the speaker line-up which boasts Kingfisher Chief Exec Ian Cheshire; Sir Torquil Norman, Founder of Camden’s Roundhouse Trust; former JP Morgan Head of Research Nick O’Donohoe, now Government Advisor to the Big Society Bank and Sinclair Beecham of Pret a Manger. International speakers include the CEOs of microfinance leaders babyloan (France), betterplace.org (Germany) and Bosnia (MiBospo).

‘Moving Forward, Embracing Change’

The criminal justice conference with a DIFFERENCE!

Hosted by Author and Public Speaker ‘Shaun Attwood’

‘To cut crime, we need to be far more successful at getting prisoners to go straight after serving their sentence. We must learn from past mistakes.’  The Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice