Alternative Leadership Models: Networking for Social Enterprises
Meet other social impact organisations to explore the topic of alternative leadership models for your social enterprise.
Workers Co-op, Sociocracy, Horizontal Leadership, Membership led, Boards, Community Interest…
Many social enterprises are starting to explore different models of governance and ways of working.
Join us to share experiences (good and bad) about alternative ways of leading and managing, decision making, governance and accountability.
Whatever your leadership model, we are interested in hearing about working practices that help or get in the way of effective cooperative working. What would help your social enterprise function better?
Who is it for?
This informal ‘social’ will bring together individuals and organisations interested in exploring alternative forms of leadership and governance.
The speakers
Henry Owen - CAG Oxfordshire
CAG consists of over 85 groups across Oxfordshire who are at the forefront of community led climate change action tackling issues including waste, transport, food, energy, biodiversity and social justice.
Started in 2001, the network is the largest of its kind in the UK, running over 2,000 events per year, attended by around 80,000 local residents and contributing over 20,000 volunteer hours to the county.
Henry has experience working with alternative leadership models in his work at CAG, as well as with Broken Spoke Bike Co-op, Transition Network, and Dragonfly Housing Co-op. Between these settings they use a range of self-management, sociocratic, and consensus-based approaches to decision-making.Find out more at cagoxfordshire.org.uk
CAG is based at Makespace, a community-led workspace, which launched in September 2018.
Find out more at makespaceoxford.org
Annie Davy - Flo's in the Park
Flo’s is a Community Benefit Society and Social Enterprise Hub with community-owned café, nursery, Refill Retail outlet, community midwives clinics and more. Based in Florence Park it opened in September 2018 in east Oxford, and has become a popular place for people to meet, eat, work, play, create, and learn. Located in the middle of a park with a strong environmental ethos it has nature in mind and wellbeing at its heart.
For more information on Flo’s, visit flosoxford.org.uk
For more information about the eScalate programme , visit www.oxfordshirelep.com/escalate
Please note that this webinar is part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and is delivered as part of the eScalate programme to help SMEs. By engaging in this programme you are being offered assistance under the De Minimis regulation which allows a company to receive up to but not exceeding €200,000 of public funding (at the applicable exchange rate) of De Minimis aid over a rolling three-tax year fiscal period. This de minimis declaration does not cover undertakings engaged in: the primary production of agricultural goods and fisheries/aquaculture, road freight, services of general economic interest and export related activities and activities favouring domestic over imported goods. Please note, support cannot be given to undertakings (businesses) in difficulty. In order to receive support from this programme, you will be required to complete an application form and other relevant documentation.
