Event Programme
| 9.30 | Exhibition Opens & Registration (and continues throughout the day) |
| 9.35 | Welcome from Lord Mayor of York |
| 9.40 | Workshop Booking opens |
| 10.30-11.45 | Workshops - morning session |
| 12.45-2.00 | Buffet lunch |
| 12.30-2.00 | Lunchtime surgeries hosted by Key Fund Yorkshire |
| 13.50 | Keynote Address from Malcolm Hayday - CEO Charity Bank (Headline Sponsor) |
| 14.15-15.30 | Workshops - afternoon session |
| 15.45 | Champion Procurer Announcement |
| 16.00 | Announcement & Presentation of "Best Stand" Award & Prize Draw |
| 16.10 | Footsey 2008 - The Highlights - Premier Screening on Footsey TV |
| 16.30 | Exhibition closes |
We've asked you what subjects you would like to see covered at Footsey, and have come up with our most exciting Workshop programme to date:
- Morning Workshops
- Finance in a Challenging Environment (Panel)
Chair :Ron Seddon (CDFA)
Panel: Yvonne Bramall (Unity Trust Bank), Andrew Tasker (NatWest), Peter Hughes (Charity Bank), Matt Smith (Key Fund Yorkshire)What sources of financial support are available to new and established social enterprises? How can you make your business plan "investment ready"? And who can provide financial facilities tailored to social and community enterprise? Quiz our panel of social and community finance experts who can draw on their wealth of experience to help you through the financial maze.
- Sales And Marketing for Social Enterprise
Catherine McGrath (Reading Matters) & Todd Hanula (Camberwell)
Chaired by:Paul Bridges (DTA)Many social enterprises have great products or services, but are lacking in the skills to tell people about them and get more business. Catherine McGrath (CEO of 'READING MATTERS') and Todd Hanula (CAMBERWELL) will offer practical advice and easy to implement solutions based on their considerable experience of sales and marketing, inside and outside the social economy
- Impact Assessment Around Social Auditing
Dave Smith(SESC) & Bev Meldrum (The Tool Factory)Measuring impact by outcomes delivery is becoming increasingly important as the health and social care agenda moves towards outcomes based commissioning. What does it mean and more importantly how do you do it? Dave Smith, Business Development Manager for the Social Enterprise Support Centre (SESC) will provide an overview of one methodology, branded as Selling added Value, developed by SESC using a simplified social return on investment model. Bev Meldrum, partner in The Tool Factory, will introduce the Social Impact Tracker – the monitoring database that measures your social impact
- Growth and Survival Grow, Change Or Die!
Gill Coupland (Angel CIC) & John Wright (Yorkshire Culture)
Chaired by : Jo Boardman (Charity Bank)Never before has the context in which social enterprises operate been so fast changing. The political, public, financial and voluntary sectors are subject to immense change and development and the social enterprises which can survive will be those who don't stand still. Pick the brains of one of the National Social Enterprise Ambassadors, Gill Coupland, and learn from John Wright how to use diagnostic tools to measure your organisations real strengths and weaknesses.
- Afternoon Workshops
- Social Enterprise in Education
Suzy Alderson (YPEF) & Guy Farrar (NOCN)Christine Marsden (Education Leeds), suported by Suzy Alderson (Young People's Enterprise Forum), will talk about Social Enterprise as part of the National Curriculum and Guy Farrar (NOCN) will give the Further Education perspective.
- Social Enterprise: Winning with 2012
Richard Startari (Social Enterprise Coalition) & Wan Saiful Wan Jan (Social Enterprise London)As part of the project "Winning with 2012" (www.sel.org.uk/2012) , the Social Enterprise Coalition and Social Enterprise London are conducting a workshop on the opportunities presented by the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and how social enterprise in the region can take part in the delivery and legacy of the Games. The workshop is an important way to influence policy makers through the project partners' strategic partnership with the Cabinet Office.
- Footsey's Dragons' Den
Judging Panel: Kevin Turmore (Unity Trust Bank), Tony Clabby (UnLtd)
Gillian Dinsey (Key Fund Yorkshire), Sue Peters (Futurebuilders), Don Cartlidge (Business Enterprise Fund - Bradford)Footsey's own 'Dragon's Den'. Four new community enterprise ideas are pitched to the distinguished panel, in front of a fascinated audience. The 'Dragons' will represent their organistions who are the potential investors. Each contestant is looking to attract investment from all, or some, of the Dragons - not all will be successful! Hosted by BBC Radio's Trisha Cooper, this, once again, promises to one of the day's highlights.
- The Legal Structure Surgery
Chris Hill (Camberwell) & Alice Faure Walker (Bates Wells Braithwaite)This workshop will be in two parts. Part One will provide an overview of the main legal structures available to Social Enterprises - key features, benefits and issues to consider. Part Two will provide a more in-depth look at Community Share Issues and the legal structures that support can them.
- Changes In The Health Sector
Tracy Cannell (Department of Health) Chaired by: Dave Thornett (SCEDU)This This workshop will provide an overview of recent developments in the Health Sector in relation to commissioning and procurement and the opportunities this provides for Social Enterprises

