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Chris Dabbs – Unlimited Potential
Liz Weatherill – Enable2
Our network
• Informal network of health/care-related social enterprises in northern England
• From the Scottish border to north Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire
How we work
• a forum for sharing ideas and learning• quarterly mixed agenda meetings for
chief executives• a larger day-long event for a wider
group of people from member organisations at least once a year
• round tables focussed on specific topics for in-depth discussion, twice a year
Potential of Northern Soul
• Northern Soul has a “bringing together” role to enable collaboration between member social enterprises on opportunities
Membership
• 23 member social enterprises, small to very large
• Blackpool to Grimsby, Bradford to Nottingham
Awards to members 2014
• Value and Improvement in Training and Development Award in the HSJ Value in Healthcare Awards
• Top 10 Best Places to Work in Healthcare in the HSJ Top 100 Healthcare Employers survey
• outstanding GP practice (CQC)• Health & Social Care Social Enterprise Award
in UK Social Enterprise Awards• Best Practice Health and Wellbeing
Innovation of the Year award (NAPC)
Our strengths - reach
• children and young people• people with dementia• families• people with learning disability• people with long-term conditions• people with mental health issues• offenders• older people• people with substance misuse problems
Our strengths - provision
• employability• public health• regeneration• well-being/happiness
• intermediate care• nursing• pharmacy• primary care• psychology• therapies
Our strengths - approaches
• asset-based work / co-production• behaviour change• community empowerment• innovation• outreach• social value
Recent focuses
• social value• terms and conditions• staff support• staff surveys• provider voice• collaborative bidding• mutual finance• research
Our People
Do social enterprises offer:• better working
environments?• more holistic
approach?• better engagement?• greater autonomy?• greater well-being?
Distinction and evidence
Unique selling point Evidence - research
Added value
• Social enterprise as a public health and well-being intervention?
• Great concept – where’s the substance?