Delegates att ending the Focus on Social Enterprise Day on Thursday November 3 will have the opti on to att end one of the three workshops running during the day. David Bryan of the Social Enterprise Academy will be delivering a leadership and governance workshop, explaining strategic and operati onal roles and structures, what the key traits of leadership are and how to work with these. Barbara Halliday of Business Gateway will deliver a practi cal session on techniques and practi ces for managing staff and volunteers. Finally Ailsa Clark, in conjuncti on with Firstport, will be looking at ways you can make your business more sustainable.
Ailsa Clark, InspirAlba.
A Dragon’s Den-style competi ti on will give organisati ons the opportunity to pitch to a panel to secure investment to help with costs to launch new start-up social enterprise acti viti es or to support a new area of growth for established social enterprises. InspirAlba has been instrumental in organising the social enterprise acti vity for Argyll Enterprise Week. Established in 2009 by Ailsa Clark as a charitable enterprise, InspirAlba aims to assist community-based organisati ons to turn their ideas and aspirati ons into robust, sustainable business acti viti es.