Tuesday

11th September 2007

Industry Centre, University of Sunderland

Sunderland Enterprise Park West

A Half-Day Research Dissemination Workshop

Health Markets and Social Enterprise Development

Introduction

Benefitting the Economy and Society Through Procurement is a major initiative, based in the East Midlands region, that aims to improve the correlation between public sector expenditure and public benefit, positioning social enterprise as a key delivery vehicle in acheiving this goal.

Health Markets provide a particularly exciting avenue within which social enterprises can develop. Social enterprises are often particularly well-placed to provide health support services such as counselling, culturally / faith sensitive home care and mental health support. There is also therefore, an opportunity for social enterprise to engage with NHS procurement particularly by illustrating the 'added value' that they can bring to such contracts.

The Sustainable Developement Research Centre (SDRC) is working as the research partner on the BEST Procurement Programme. As part of the research dissemination exercise SDRC is holding a series of workshops in each of the regions of the UK. Each event is designed to create a forum for communicating the research findings and sharing best practise with and among leading practitioners in the area of social enterprise development and public sector procurement.

Aims

The aim of each workshop is to communicate the findings from the research understaken in the East Midlands and to listen to and share best practise with other regions. In this way, we hope to build a UK-wide perspective of activity.

Workshop Objective

This workshop will, through discussion and case study examples, explore the exisiting relationshsips between social enterprise and health markets and the potential for social enterprise development within this sector. We will hear the experiences of speakers from both the East Midlands and your local area. We invite you to join our discussion.

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Programme

Registration and Coffee

Welcome and Introduction - Mark Heskett-Saddington, Social Enterprise Sunderland

Evan Rees, CEO, Social Enterprise East Midlands (SEEM) - Outlining BEST Procurement Programme-outcomes achieved

Dr Sarah-Anne Munoz, SDRC - BEST Procurement Programme Research Update

Margeret Elliot, Sunderland Home Care Associates - local Case Study

Coffee Break

Evan Rees, CEO, Social Enterprise East Midlands (SEEM) - Health Markets and Social Enterprise Development

Group Discussion, exchanging experiences:

• exisiting experience of social enterprise with health markets
• social enterprise and NHS procurement
• potential for social enterprise development within health markets.

Close

Venue - Industry Centre, University of Sunderland, Sunderland Enterprise Park West, Wessington Way, City of Sunderland SR5 3XB

Registration - Please contact Wendy Galloway on 01309 678111 or email:

wendy.galloway@sdrc.uhi.ac.uk to register for the workshop