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Working Capital is a Social Investment Conference designed to bring together the leading exponents in Social Investment with Social Enterprises and Social Enterpreneurs 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

Workshops on:

WHAT ARE INVESTORS LOOKING FOR?

COMMUNITY SHARES AND CROWD FUNDING

SOCIAL IMPACT BASED LENDING

The event is on Thursday 1st March at the Award winning Hepworth Wakefield

Full Details are on our booking site http://workingcapital.eventbrite.com/

The Conference is supported by Leeds Community Foundation, UnLtd and Charity Bank

Conference Sponsors Key Fund  

We are now collecting questionnaires for the 2012 survey working with Viewpoint Research and without completed surveys from you the survey will not truly represent our sector. To complete the questionnaire please visit our dedicated survey site

Social Enterprise Yorkshire and the Humber produced the first State of the Sector Survey of Social Enterprises in Yorkshire and the Humber in 2010-11. The results of the latest robust and detailed survey of social enterprises in the region.

To those interested in the sector and keen to find out more the report gives some detail on what is an under-researched and reported part of the business environment.

For social enterprises the survey will reinforce our belief in ourselves as an important, growing and profitablesector giving valuable support to communities. National research shows social enterprises bucking the trend inthe current economic climate and this research shows that socialenterprises in Yorkshire and the Humber are just as resilient as social enterprises elsewhere in the UK, outperforming privately owned businesses based on surveys of private business performance.

We hope that we will be able to undertake the survey on an annual basis and it will act as a useful barometer for the sector.

I would like to thank Leeds Community Foundation, Yorkshire Forward and European Regional Development Fund for making the production of this report possible, Viewpoint Research CIC for collecting the survey data and compiling this report as well as all the social enterprises who responded to the survey.

You can download a full copy by clicking the frontpage below

SEYH has moved, our new address is:

C/O Involve Yorkshire and the Humber

Floor 5, Gallery House

131 The Headrow

Leeds

LS1 5RD

Telephone 0113 3942310

SEYH Conference 2011 will take place on the 2nd December 2011 at the Octagon Centre, Hull.

The conference keynote speaker is Hugh Lee, Chair of EBICO the UKs first social enterprise Energy Supplier who operate in one of the UKs most corporate marketplaces.

We will also be joined by Cllr Stephen Brady, Leader of Hull City Council; Kevin Bond, Chief Executive NAViGO Health and Social Care CIC; Nicola Yates OBE, Chief Executive Hull City Council; Isobel Mills BIS Regional Lead.

Workshops include Governance and Risk in Social Enterprise, How technology can aid transformation and the future of social enterprises in public service delivery.

You can register now by going to our dedicated booking site. There is a bursary scheme for new social enterprises and there is a free ticket for all members of our paid membership scheme details below.

If you are interested in having a stall in our marketplace (only 5 stalls left) or sponsoring the conference please download one of the prospectuses below:

For paying members please download here , if you are not a paying member please download here. 

If you are not a member and are interested in joining more information is available on our members page

SEYH Conference is sponsored by