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Annual Conference 2003
London Docklands
In this section we will provide as many of the conference
presentations as we can for delegates and non-attendees alike. Just follow
the programme below. If there is a link then you can download that presentation
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Programme
Monday 1st December 2003
Social Investment
This part of the programme looks at a range of government and private sector
initiatives and their relationship with the VCS including community enterprise,
forms of community financing, corporate responsibility and third sector organisations
working in this way.
Opening Plenary
Conference Chair – Professor Marilyn Taylor, Urban Forum & Cities
Research Centre
Keynote Speaker
Peter Hetherington – The Guardian
Panel Session
Ros Boyle
– Social Enterprise Coalition
Barbara
Phillips – Social Enterprise Unit, DTI
Andrew Robinson – NatWest and The Royal Bank of Scotland
Workshop One
1. Business Brokers and LSPs
– Stephanie Hagan, Business in the Community with Marvin Aristotle, East
London Business Alliance
A way of brokering business involvement/investment into LSPs.
2. Caring Capitalism
– Dr Angela Ayios, School of Business Management, Brunel University
Can we be business and VCS organisations without compromising our values?
3. Co-Ops as Social Investment in Regeneration
– Helen
Seymour, Co-Operatives UK
Co-ops, social investment through their structure, way of working, and through
their activities.
4. Community Organisations as Social Enterprise
– John McNeil, Custom House and Canning Town Community Renewal Project
Examples of community organisations operating as social enterprises.
5. Corporate Responsibility and Social Investment
– Paula Hirst, Business in the Community
How can the corporate sector help the VCS to regenerate their areas.
6. Financing Social Change
– Andrew Robinson, Community Development Banking, NatWest and The Royal
Bank of Scotland
How lenders are finding ways to help communities in regeneration areas.
7. Get a CIC out of these? Community Interest Companies for beginners
– Richard Harries, CIC Unit, DTI
An introduction to this structure, how can it help?
8. Social Investment and Housing Associations
– Andrew
Chaplin, Quadrant Community Investment, London and Quadrant Housing Trust
An example of the diverse ways that a Housing Association can use its resources
to re-invest in its own communities.
9. Social Investment and RDAs – this workshop did not run.
10. Social Investment through Development Trusts
– Alan Wallace, Development Trust Association
How can development trusts channel social investment for regeneration?
11. Spending to Invest – this workshop was cancelled.
How charitable trusts are investing in the VCS.
12. Your place or mine? Asset Transfer
– Vandna Gohil, Civil Renewal Unit, Home Office
Transferring assets to the VCS - a way to sustainability?
Evening Fringe Events
Your Issue and Mine
Hosted informal drinks receptions for communities of interest to explore how
they are viewed and involved in regeneration. To discuss:
1. BME – Shaika Sharif, NACVS
2. Disability – Rupa Sarkar, Urban Forum
3. Gender – Sue Robson, Urban Forum & Voices
4. Middle Class White Males – Tony Hillman, Urban Forum
5. Multi-Faith – David Rayner, Urban Policy Unit, ODPM
6. Older People – Annette Figueiredo, Age Concern London
7. Sexuality – Andrew Garrett, Hollingdean Programme
8. Young People – Amar Abass, Bank Top Youth Forum with Hanza Vayani,
Youth Voice
Summary
document of Your Issue and Mine here
Tuesday 2nd December 2003
Regenerating Resources
Should volunteers involved in regeneration programmes be rewarded for their
time? What would this mean, would they still be community representatives?
Can better systems be created to avoid active local people being out of pocket?
Plenary Debate – Are you free?
Julian Dobson – New Start (Leader)
Glenn Jenkins – Luton New Deal for Communities
Chris Penberthy – Volunteer Development England
Gill Taylor – Department of Work and Pensions
Keynote Speaker
Yvette Cooper MP – ODPM Regeneration
Minister
Speech not available
Mini–Conferences
1. Community Capacity Building Review
Amanda Inverarity – SCCD (Standing Conference for Community Development)
Sue Robson – Urban Forum & Voices (Chair)
Charles
Woodd – Civil Renewal Unit, Home Office
What does the review tell us about the resourcing of community capacity building
and the provision of community-level infrastructure?
2. Community Cohesion
Maureen
Adams – Community Cohesion Unit, Home Office
Joyce Markham
–Harrow Council & West London Alliance
Zahid Nawaz – Urban Forum & Commission for Racial Equality (Chair)
What has been happening in social cohesion and where are pathfinders leading?
3. Community Participation Review
Anna King – Brighton and Hove Community and Voluntary Sector Forum
Professor Marilyn Taylor – Urban Forum & Cities Research Centre (Chair)
Tricia Zipfel – Neighbourhood Renewal Unit, ODPM
How will the NRU use these findings to develop community participation in
their programmes.
4. European Funding
Andy Churchill – Merseyside Network for Europe
Jan King – Urban Forum (Chair)
Barbara Rambousek – URBAN, Thames Gateway Kent
How European Funding is reaching small groups and getting down to VCS level
regeneration.
5. Futurebuilders
Helen Horton– HM Treasury
Lorraine Roberts – Urban Forum & Greater London Authority (Chair)
Jane Slowey – Birmingham Voluntary Service Council
How will the Futurebuilders fund affect the VCS? Opportunity or pressure to
deliver?
6. Infrastructure Strategy
Jean Erskine – Urban Forum & VOSCUR (Chair)
Ben Hughes – BASSAC
John Routledge – Active Community Unit, Home Office
Questions for the VCS, where are the answers leading? How will the infrastructure
be affected, promise or purge?
Partnerships
Exploring partnership working across the VCS and between the VCS and other
bodies.
Workshop Two
1. Anti-Social Behaviour – Christine Kent, Anti-Social Behaviour Unit,
Home Office
How these partnerships are working.
2. Community Networks – Peter Richardson, Active Partners Yorkshire and
Humberside
Involvement of community in Partnership.
3. Compact Development – David
Tyler, Community Matters
Are Compacts working? How to make the Community Compact work.
4. Health in Partnership – Charles Perry, Department of Health
How the VCS is working with the new health structures.
5. Learning for Regeneration – Dr
Helen Walker, Neighbourhood Renewal Unit, ODPM
How steep is the learning curve?
6. Local Strategic Partnerships – Rupa Sarkar, Urban Forum
Are LSPs being asked to do too much? If there are trends, what do they mean?
7. LSC Infrastructure for Partnership – this workshop was cancelled.
Strategies for working with the VCS.
8. Regional Regeneration Partnerships – Vicky Etheridge, Community Renewal
Network East
Supporting and strengthening participation.
9. SRB Wind-Down – Sarah
Fishbourne, Community First & formerly Urban Forum
The impact of the wind-down of SRB and introduction of single pot.
10. Sustainable Communities – this workshop did not run.
How environmental partnership contributes to regeneration.
11. The new Regional Assemblies – Robert Crangle, Regional Policy Unit,
ODPM
Where will the VCS be in the new Regional Assemblies?
Final Plenary – Civil Renewal through Partnership
Keynote Speaker – Dr Henry Tam, Civil Renewal
Unit, Home Office
Carl Allen – Islington Community Network
Lorraine
Coates – Government Office Yorkshire and Humber
Kumar Murshid – Regeneration Adviser, Greater London Authority
How does the idea of partnership between the State and its communities become
concrete? Does civil renewal relate to existing partnership bodies and how
might they relate to it?
Conference attendance details
This year's Annual Conference will be held in London Docklands — an area
that forms one of the most famous regeneration sites in the world but still
suffers from the imponderable social problems that dog modern neighbourhood
renewal.
Join us as the networking event of the year — now
in its 8th year — examines the themes of social enterprise, resources
and funding.
ODPM Minister, Yvette Cooper, whose responsibilities include
regeneration and who is seen as a rising star in the government, will speak
to our conference on day two.
 The
conference will include the ever-popular suite of mini-conferences and include
the practical Rough Guide to Regeneration, an introduction to the current
state of play in regeneration that is invaluable for beginners and gnarled
old professionals alike!
Download a Programme with booking form here
and fax to 020 7253 4817
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