SOCIAL entrepreneurs from across Argyll and Bute came together in Oban on November 2 and 3, with local social enterprise InspirAlba coordinating the event. Social enterprises are businesses that have a social environmental purpose and are able to reinvest profit for community benefit.
The Focus on Social Enterprise Day was very popular.
The event kicked off in the evening of November 2 with a film festival hosted at Oban Phoenix Cinema (itself a social enterprise) and compered by Lesley Riddoch with a selection of inspiring short films from Stramash, Kintyre Recycling, Dunollie House, Kilmartin Museum, and Mull and Garminy Hydro energy access. A new film highlighting Homesong as a way of bringing artists and audiences together in home-based gigs was also shown. An informal networking event followed at Oban Youth Hostel.