Social Innovation is often supported by key agencies and organisations across the UK. These organisations are key to understanding what support is needed locally and nationally, and where key gaps are. Whether these organisations are public organisations focused on specific support, or independent organisations that provide key resources and services to budding social enterprises and community projects; they empower and drive groups and individuals with a social mission.

There is much to navigate when deciding to undertake a business or project that addresses a social cause. It can be a very lonely place to be, and a difficult journey engaging a community or group, and also navigating the complicated legal and financial processes to get established. Failure is common for new social innovators, and organisations that support them are often the ones that persuade them to keep trying in the face of adversity. Organisations like this also face their own challenges, working with the context varying across the UK between regions and the four nations of the UK. Justifying their existence often becomes a key issue when funding and policy changes around them, and to survive organisations have to be agile and prepared to pivot focus whilst still supporting the communities they did before.

During this session we will hear from leading organisations in different regions of the UK about Social Innovation and Enterprise in their local context, and also about the ways in which we can start to collaborate with our communities to address the variety of challenges we face as a society today. This will be an online Zoom session. The panel discussion will be followed by audience questions. Our key speakers on the panel are:

● David Haddow, Co-Founders - Social Shifters

● Cleo Goodman, Co-Founder – Basic Income Conversation

● So Jung Rim, Chief Operating Officer - Social Innovation Exchange

LINK TO JOIN: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/370845909097