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good deals 2011 Programme

8.15-9.00: Registration

9.00-9.05: WELCOME

Tim West, director, Matter&Co

9.05-09.10:

Nick Hurd MP, Minister for Civil Society

9.10-10.10: AN INTERVIEW WITH

Liam Black, co-founder, Wavelength 
Interviews 
Muhammad Yunus, founder, Grameen Foundation

10.10-10.40: Break

10.40-10.45: PITCH PLATFORM 1

10.45-11.40: Igniting the Market

The investors are lining up. Big Society Capital has been launched. A range of major funds are up and running with more to follow. How do we now spark the development of a marketplace? What and where are the opportunities? What is holding up deals? What can investors and entrepreneurs do to get more good deals done? How do we know that a deal is ‘good’?

 

Chair: Bernard Horn, chair, Social Finance

Nick O’Donohoe, CEO, Big Society Capital

Amra Dautovic, MD, MyTime CIC

Jeremy Nicholls, CEO, The SROI Network and chair, Fair Pensions

Charlie Green, director, Private Equity Foundation

11.45– 12.45: MORNING Workshops


1. What do investors want?

Investors and social entrepreneurs don’t always see eye to eye. Despite reports of billions flowing into social investment, both sides can get frustrated with the process. Nonetheless, good deals are being done. Paul Cheng finds out from Faisel Rahman how he secured a multi-million pound investment from a mainstream bank, and speaks to Phil Conway and Edward Siegel on what was key to their successful deal. 

 

Chair: Paul Cheng, head of CAF Venturesome

Phil Conway, CEO, Cool2Care 

Faisel Rahman, founder, Fair Finance

Ed Siegel, director of investments, Big Issue Invest

 

2. Equity Released

Equity investment is finally happening in the social finance arena. We hear about the redeemable share issue, a soft form of equity that allows leaves business ownership in the hands of the entrepreneur; from an alternative energy entrepreneur who secured a £200k equity deal for his community interest company, and from a private equity investor focusing his expertise and his cash on start-up social enterprises.


Chair: Nick Temple, business development director, Social Enterprise UK

Stephen Rockman, founder, Merism Capital 

Amra Dautovic, MD, MyTime CIC

Steve Welsh, H20pe

 

3. BATES, WELLS & BRAITHWAITE PRESENTS: innovations i - social impact bonds: A SEA CHANGE FOR SOCIAL INVESTMENT?

Payment by results is a key approach for the current government in terms of finding new ways for funding public services. In terms of investment, the Social Impact Bond is vehicle that appears to deliver. There are huge opportunities and big challenges. Our panel discusses what will influence the next stage of their development and explores how, with greater awareness of how successful projects are developed, the SIB could herald a sea change in the way capital and private sector solutions are driven towards solving social causes.

 

Chair: Abbie Rumbold, Bates Wells and Braithwaite

Stephen Lloyd, senior partner, Bates Wells and Braithwaite

David Hutchison, CEO, Social Finance

Nick O’Donohoe, CEO, Big Society Capital

Charlie Green, director, Private Equity Foundation

 

4. The SROI Network presents: Making it count – are we making a difference? 

How can investors deliver commercial returns ethically and with social impact? Are the burdens of impact reporting outweighing the benefits of the capital? Jeremy Nicholls asks a panel of investors and entrepreneurs how on earth we know whether social investment is working.


Chair: Jeremy Nicholls, CEO, SROI Network

Becky Booth, co-founder and programmes director, Spice

Danyal Sattar, finance fund manager, Esmee Fairbairn Foundation

Servane Mouazan, MD, Ogunte Ltd

 

12.45-14.05: Lunch break


14.00-14.05: pitch platform 2

14.05-14.55: Close encounters of the corporate kind

Corporate social responsibility has moved on. A growing number of forward-thinking corporates recognise that sustainability, responsible business and social innovation are more powerful when they form part of the core business offering rather than sitting to one side. To invest in their own future they must also invest in the future of communities and the planet. 


In this session we look at leading edge examples of corporate social innovation, through the eyes the corporates and their partners in the civil society arena.


Chair: Tim West, director, Matter&Co 

Bob Thust, head of corporate responsibility, Deloitte

Simon Watson, head of community affairs, RBS

Dave Dawes, project lead, Nurse First

Mark Lloyd Davis, senior director, UK and Ireland, Johnson&Johnson

15.00-16.00: afternoon Workshops


5. Market builders and the missing middle 

What is the shape of the social investment marketplace? What can mainstream finance providers and government do to support enterprise that delivers social as well as financial returns? Where is the support for social entrepreneurs who require investment between the stages of start-up and growth?


Eric Munro, director of community banking, RBS

Jonathan Jenkins, CEO, Social Investment Business

Jo Hill, interim director, UnLtd Ventures

Caroline Tulloch, associate, Bridges Ventures


6. The SROI Network presents: Making it count II – demonstrating value to win business

In the face of fierce competition, social enterprises need to work harder than ever to secure public sector contracts. This workshop will help you gain a competitive advantage to sell more and win contracts by demonstrating your value.

 

Chair: Eddie Finch, partner, Buzzacott

Jenni Inglis, director, The SROI Network

Laurie Russell, CEO, Wise Group

Miia Chambers, director, P3

 

7. Buzzbnk presents: Innovations II - good ideas that stick

With Big Society Capital about to launch, the emergence of equity investments and the growth of social impact bonds, the social investment space is thriving.  Despite this, social investment still remains a slender niche of the overall market. This session explores innovations at both the retail and the institutional investor ends of the market that will increase capital flow for good. 


Chair: Theresa Burton, CEO & co-founder, Buzzbnk

Ben Metz, UK & Europe lead R&D, ImpactAssets

James Perry, Panahpur

Martin Rich, director, Social Finance

 

8. REINVENTING CAPITALISM

The ‘for profit’/’not for profit’ paradigm that we have followed for decades no loner works. Capitalism as we know it is broken. And sustainability is dogged by short-term thinking. So say some of the biggest brains in the social innovation space, including those who make up our panel for this debate. We explore their analysis of the issues, hear about their possible solutions and invite comment and argument from the floor.

 

Chair: Tim West, director, Matter&Co

Arthur Wood, founding partner, Total Impact Advisers

Tamzin Ractliffe, CEO, NEXII

Charmian Love, CEO, Volans 

Geoff Burnand, co-founder & CEO, Investing for Good

16.00-16.20: Coffee break:

16.20-16.50: Bringing Humanity to Business

Introduction: Thomas Coops, partner, Deloitte

Keynote speaker: Julie Hanna, chair of the board, Kiva, and serial entrepreneur

16.50-17.00: Closing remarks

Tim West, director, Matter&Co