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Enterprise Trade Show

10th December 2014 / 12noon-5pm

Wasps Artists’ Studios

The Briggait, 141 Bridgegate, Glasgow G1 5HZ

We’re delighted to host our first Glasgow Social Enterprise Trade Show on 10th December in The Briggait, the stunning historical building redeveloped by Wasps Artists’ Studios.

Our Trade Show opens the doors for you to explore the incredible, wide ranging products and services available from social enterprises all under one roof!

Our exhibition, activity programme and prize raffle is a perfect opportunity for you to shop, chat, build business connections and find out what social enterprise means for our communities.

This FREE event is aimed at businesses and public alike.

Best wishes,

Elizabeth McKenna / GSEN Network Manager

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Prizes to be won!Don’t forget to leave your contact details at the raffle prize draw area and you could be in with the chance of winning a bunch of prizes kindly donated by Glasgow Social Enterprises.

• Breakfast Basket delivered to your door by Delivered Next Day Personally

• A very special bottle of Black Label Lanson champagne, specially bottled for Wimbledon 2014 which comes in a tennis ball cooling sleeve from EVH

• A £300 training voucher which essentially gets the winner access to the extensive range of short training course delivered at a time/place to suit them at no cost, all courtesy of EVH

• 5 x 2 FREE bike hires from South West Community Cycles

• 2 x Panto tickets for Cinderella at the SHED running from Thursday 18th Dec to Sunday 21st Dec from TRAM Direct

• £10 voucher to spend at the Glad Cafe

• 5 x The Experience Go Karting Vouchers

• Bottle of Whisky courtesy of CEIS

• One on site photographic session, including license free digital images from Photobility

• Free ½ day session in a large conference room, supplied with tea, coffee, water and biscuits from Young Enterprise Scotland

• 2 x tickets for Cinderella on Saturday 13th December at 7pm at Queens Drive from Ecole Enterprise

• A rug from Spruce Carpets

• Family Bushcraft Experience for 1 Adult 1 Child which has the value of £45 from Green Aspirations Scotland

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Programme12pm-12.10pmWelcome and Launch of People Make Glasgow Enterprising brand

Deborah Grant, Chair of GSEN and a rep from Glasgow City Marketing Bureau

12.10pm-12.15pm Lynsey McLean, General Manager, The Experience and sponsor of GSEN Trade Show

12.45pm-1pmFraser Kelly, Chief Executive, Social Enterprise Scotland

Social Enterprise Scotland on behalf of Scottish Government is delighted to be a sponsor of the GSEN Trade Show on the 10th December. Having supported a series of events during 2014 Scottish Government working with SES has encouraged social enterprise to reach new audiences and new customers with products and services in ways not done previously. The GSEN event is yet another example of vibrant and diverse social enterprises doing business for good.

1pm-1.15pmTheatre Nemo - The Art of Taiko

Taiko is exceptionally good at engaging with people that previously wouldn’t engage in any activities or learning. It is a style of performance from Japan, Taiko is a highly energetic and engaging art form. The traditional rhythms are taught through words, making it a very easy to learn the instrument. The group, once learning the vocabulary, can then work individually and in groups to compose their own Taiko performance piece.

1.30pm-1.45pmNeil Harvey, Project Manager, Glasgow Wood Cooperative Launch

Today sees the launch of an exciting new cooperative collaboration. Five of Glasgow’s social enterprises have come together in order to be able to respond to the demands of larger scale projects. GalGael, MAKLab, The Coach House Trust, TOG Studio and Glasgow Wood Recycling are the five founding members of the Glasgow Wood Cooperative.

1.45pm-1.50pmAgnieszka Davren, HR Support Services Manager, EVH and sponsor of GSEN Trade Show

2pm-2.15pmIndigo Uncovered

Out of School Care, Indi Youth... The Indigo Childcare Group delivers innovative services for children and young people whose parents work. Social needs and social ethos driven by social values means that putting social with enterprise is exactly what we do. Our team have put together a short programme to give a small insight into some of the work being carried out and developed throughout our services!

*Please note that these times are subject to change

2.25pm-2.40pmTaster story-making session with The Village Storytelling Centre

Our work is about facilitating chat, connection and community. We tell stories and play games with groups from all walks of life, and of all ages, with benefits ranging from improved communication skills to reduced isolation, to enhanced wellbeing. In this taster session, we’ll play a fun and easy game to start with, and then storyteller Naomi will tell an interactive tale, with the help of the group. Extroverts and introverts both welcome! This taster session is for a maximum of 20 people.

3pm-3.15pmPaula Woodman, Social Enterprise Advisor, Education and Society, British Council

Exporting Social Enterprise: A survey of overseas trade by UK social enterprises – and how to foster its growth

11% of UK social enterprise trade or franchise overseas. How are they exporting and where are they obtaining

support? What challenges do they face? What are the biggest foreign markets and most highly traded goods and services? This pioneering study, conducted by the British Council and SEUK, answers these questions and offers recommendations to support the growth of this promising export market.

3.15pm-3.20pmJacqui Taylor, Chief Executive, Lifelink and sponsor of GSEN Trade Show

3.30pm-3.45pm

Glasgow Women’s Library, what’s in it for you?

Glasgow Women’s Library is a unique resource in Scotland and much more than a Library. It is Jobs & Business Glasgow’s Social Enterprise of the Year, was nominated for Museums Galleries Scotland and won Arts and Business Scotland Enterprising Museum of the Year for 2013-2014. This session led by GWL co-founder Adele Patrick will bust myths, spotlight why we are an award winning SE and demonstrate why everyone needs Glasgow Women’s Library in their lives!

3.55pm-4.10pmMystery Portrait with Impact Arts

Come along and try your hand at portrait making with a twist, with Impact Arts, Scotland’s leading Social Arts organisation.

Impact Arts works across Scotland with people and communities, delivering positive, creative experiences to people who, without our intervention, would have little opportunity to do so. Our projects focus on activities that help participants achieve greater self esteem and confidence, technical skill, and a sense of achievement and aspiration.

4.20pm-4.35pmRe-ignite your nature connection! With Green Aspirations Scotland CIC

In a 15min workshop, we will explore the value of our connection with the natural world through tactile creative craft to create a masterpiece, naturally.

*Please note that these times are subject to change

Sponsors

THE EXPERIENCE The Experience is a themed entertainment and events venue based in Hillington Park. Unveiling Scotland’s first indoor electric Go-karting arena, the venue offers a unique addition to the leisure landscape of the West of Scotland. The Experience includes junior and senior tracks, The Gannochy Trust Academy for Culinary Arts including restaurant and training kitchens and flexible event space, taking the ‘experience economy’ to a new level.

www.theexperience.org.uk

EVH EVH - Supporting Social Employers is an Employers Federation, formed in 1978, with roots in social housing. It has moved well beyond and now supports voluntary Boards in their “employer” role throughout Scotland. Our simple annual fee structure provides comprehensive and unlimited support on HR, Health & Safety, Employee Counselling, and Board Governance, and helps explain our 100% member loyalty.

www.evh.org.uk

LIFELINK Lifelink has operated across Glasgow for 22 years supporting adults and young people with stress related mild to moderate mental health issues. As a Social Enterprise, we provide early and crisis interventions specifically in relation to stress management and mental health improvement. We do this through counselling and personal development and seek to build emotional resilience within local communities.

www.lifelink.org.uk

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SOCIAL ENTERPRISE SCOTLAND Social Enterprise Scotland is The Voice of Social Enterprise - uniting social enterprises and their supporters into a strong campaigning force. We’re your gateway to Scotland’s social enterprise community. Social Enterprise Scotland is an independent, Scottish, membership-led organisation, built and controlled by social enterprises. Discover something new -

www.socialenterprisescotland.org.uk

– Re:Investing in Scottish communities –

Sponsors

THE BRITISH COUNCIL The British Council’s Global Social Enterprise programme draws on UK experience in social enterprise to promote its growth internationally. We build capacity in the sector, forge international networks, and support policy leaders to create ecosystems in which social enterprise can thrive. Our work supports positive social change, inclusive growth and sustainable development while building trust and creating opportunities between the UK and other countries.

www.britishcouncil.org/society/social-enterprise

SCOTTISH COMMUNITY RE:INVESTMENT TRUST SCRT is a new Scottish financial venture the aim of which is to pool our collective resources to serve the third sector’s own investment needs – a philosophy of mutuality. It will support the development of a financial infrastructure, products and services consistent with our sector’s mission and energise third sector development and growth. SCRT is a SCIO (SC045093) with members drawn from across Scotland’s wider independent third sector.

www.scrt.scot

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Floorplan

Supported by:

1 Green Aspirations Scotland2 Impact Arts3 MsMissMrs4 Spruce Carpets5 Glasgow Wood Recycling6 The Spark7 Luma IT8 Keegan & Pennykid9 The Wise Group10 Mellow Parenting11 Baillieston Community Care

12 Grameen in the UK13 North Area Transport

Association14 Just Enterprise15 Homes for Good16 DRC Generations17 Jobs & Business Glasgow18 Glasgow Association for

Mental Health19 Big Issue Invest Scotland20 Indigo Childcare Group21 The Experience

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23 Lifelink24 Fable Vision Studios25 EVH26 Senscot Legal27 Community Central Halls28 CEIS29 Centre of Therapy &

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BAILLIESTON COMMUNITY CARE Baillieston Community Care is a registered charity and community care organisation, which has been established since 1992. The company specialises in providing a variety of quality care and support services aimed at maintaining individuals independence within their own homes and the community. We currently provide Private Care at Home, Short Breaks and Dementia Day Care.

www.bailliestoncommunitycare.co.uk

BIG ISSUE INVEST SCOTLAND Big Issue Invest Scotland (BIIS) is a Joint Venture between DSL Business Finance and Big Issue Invest. BIIS provides finance from £5K to £1.5 million to organisations such as social enterprises, charities, co-ops. Loan term can be up to 10 years with fixed interest rate between 7% and 10% and an arrangement fee of 1% to 2%. We will co-invest with other providers. Contact: 01414252930 [email protected]

www.bigissueinvestscotland.com

CEIS CEIS is the UK’s largest and most experienced social enterprise support agency. Established in 1984, CEIS has developed a series of training, support and investment programmes that have been widely adopted and replicated. Whether supporting or financing social enterprises, organising events or delivering innovative employability programmes to help people back into work, we are driven to enable individuals, organisations and communities.

www.ceis.org.uk

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23 Lifelink24 Fable Vision Studios25 EVH26 Senscot Legal27 Community Central Halls28 CEIS29 Centre of Therapy &

Counselling Studies30 Ready for Business

CENTRE OF THERAPYThe Centre of Therapy was founded in Glasgow 19 years ago and has continued to expand throughout these years as a non-for-profit, self-funding social enterprise upholding our mission: “To ease the suffering of people in our community by offering high quality therapeutic services and by providing exceptional training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy thereby enabling our graduate professional therapists to preserve and perpetuate our purpose.”

www.centreoftherapy.org.uk

COMMUNITY CENTRAL HALL Community Central Hall is an awarding winning Development Trust delivering a wide range of services. It provides meeting and conference space for all types of events, including buffet and banquet catering for up to 150 guests. It provides Community Transport, using seven fully-accessible minibuses, and MiDAS training. It also operates Footprint a full design and print service, providing all types of business print/canvas pictures.

www.centralhall.org

DELIVERED NEXT DAY PERSONALLY DNDP CIC is a courier and postal service that has an enviable 100% customer satisfaction. Set up to break down many barriers that prevents people with disabilities from working. It enables disabled people to work to a flexible business model that puts their care and health to the forefront and is aimed at professional services, social enterprises and local authorities.

www.dndp.co.uk

DRC GENERATIONS A Community Peer Led Organisation that provides opportunities for people to be involved, supporting, developing and enabling young people in particular to make their own choices. The project does not condone the use of drugs or alcohol, but is realistic about the fact that young people do experiment, and therefore provides training, advice and support to minimise the associated risks.

www.drcgenerations.org.uk

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FABLEVISION STUDIOSFablevision Studios deliver bespoke film, event management and training services to all sectors across Scotland. We off er media and event solutions whilst working with and training long term unemployed people through involvement in live creative projects. These people work alongside our industry professionals to deliver high quality filming and event support whilst developing essential future employability skills and gaining experience.

www.fablevisionstudios.co.uk

GAMH Glasgow Association for Mental Health (GAMH) is an independent charity registered in Scotland. We promote the mental health and wellbeing of people and their communities; providing more than 2000 hours of community based support every week to people in Glasgow.

www.gamh.org.uk

GLASGOW WOOD RECYCLINGGlasgow Wood Recycling diverts wood waste from landfill. In doing so we help the environment by providing a wood collection service and recycling and reusing this valuable natural resource to produce imaginative indoor and outdoor products. Through these activities we provide volunteer and training opportunities to a diverse range of people, as a practical way of tackling poverty, social exclusion and an opportunity to learn new skills.

www.glasgowwoodrecycling.org.uk

GRAMEEN IN THE UKGrameen in the UK off ers financial support to those currently not served by any mainstream financial services. The goal is to improve the economic situation of the most financially disadvantaged in the UK by providing a real opportunity for change, enabling individuals to begin to help themselves, their families, their communities and to challenge the cycle of welfare dependency.

www.grameenfoundation.org.uk

GREEN ASPIRATIONS SCOTLAND A woodland based social enterprise inspiring outdoor learning through providing educational, volunteering and craft opportunities. We offer workshops to schools, other organisations, communities and individuals in our woodland, customer’s sites and can run our workshops indoors too. We maintain our woodland in a sustainable way to deliver social, economic and environmental benefits. We also offer Bushcraft Birthday parties in the woods for all ages, make hand crafted artisan products and provide activities at events.

www.greenaspirationsscotland.co.uk

HOMES FOR GOOD We are Scotland’s first social enterprise letting agency, creating safe happy homes for tenants and sound investments for landlords. Our relationships and customer care standards set us apart from other letting agents. We specialise in supporting tenants in housing need, and additional services such as energy efficiency and budgeting advice, interior design and employability make us unique. Visit our stand to be in with a chance to win afternoon tea at Blythswood Square Hotel.

www.homesforgood.co.uk

IMPACT ARTS Impact Arts is a national community arts charity and social enterprise. Our mission is to help people change their lives through creativity and the arts. Our key aim over the next 4 years is to achieve social change by the following means: Inspiration, Potential, Empowerment, Talent and Development. We use innovation and enterprise and collaborate with like-minded partners to transform lives and make social change happen.

#artchangeslives / www.impactarts.co.uk

INDIGO GROUP What do we do? Early Years, Out of School Care, Indi Youth ... The Indigo Childcare Group delivers innovative services for children and young people whose parents work. Social needs and social ethos driven by social values means that putting social with enterprise is exactly what we do.

www.indigogrp.com

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JOBS & BUSINESS GLASGOW Jobs & Business Glasgow is a leading economic development agency in Glasgow. It encourages community and voluntary based organisations to become more enterprising offering specialist support in procurement, governance, business planning and marketing. This is part of a range of business, training and employability services delivered across the city. JBG is also a significant provider of childcare places and business premises in the city.

www.jbg.org.uk

JUST ENTERPRISE The new Just Enterprise programme continues to offer business support, start-up advice and leadership and learning workshops to strengthen the Just Enterprise Third Sector in Scotland and introduces some vital new services including business recovery assistance for struggling Social Enterprises and services to Scotland’s supported businesses.

www.justenterprise.org.uk

KEEGAN AND PENNYKID Keegan & Pennykid has been providing Social Enterprises with independent insurance and financial services advice for over 20 years. As well as having access to a range of specialist insurers, our “Encompass” insurance policy (designed specifically for the third sector) is endorsed by SCVO, WCVA and LVSC. Since its launch in 1997, we have given back over £1.5m to the UK’s third sector.

www.keegan-pennykid.com

LUMA IT As the only IT Company in the country that is being run as a social enterprise, we understand your needs and can provide full consultancy and IT management - including a 24/7 helpdesk. Fed up with your emails not working properly, your internet going down, the computer breaking, or the threat of malicious viruses? Then Luma-IT are here for you. We specialise in working with charities and social enterprises, and can help take the stress out of IT.

www.luma-it.com

MELLOW PARENTING Mellow Parenting make a real difference to people’s lives. We’ve developed vital programmes that provide practitioners with tools to improve parent-child relationships in a safe, effective environment. Using principles of attachment, social learning theory and good practice in mental health, our programmes have a significant and sustained impact for parents and children.

www.mellowparenting.org

MSMISSMRSEmpowerment Pants, underwear with a social mission. Empowerment pants: for those days when you just need reminding how great you are. Pull on a pair of our fabulous undies then stand back, and marvel at yourself as the hero of your own life and know the profits are used to create change for disadvantage women and girls.

www.msmissmrs.co.uk

NATA TRANSPORT NATA has been catering for group travel needs since 2004. We provide minibuses for private hire, community transport and minibus driver training. We serve people in the local community by providing access to essential services and community facilities via reliable and cost-effective transport means. We address the issues of exclusion experienced by many whilst providing opportunities for community engagement.

www.natatransport.co.uk

READY FOR BUSINESS Ready for Business is delivering the Scottish Government funded Developing Markets for Third Sector Providers programme. The programme objectives are to increase engagement between the public sector and the third sector by promoting social value in procurement, increasing the usage of Community Benefit Clauses and supporting adoption of the Public Social Partnership model.

www.readyforbusiness.org

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SENSCOT LEGAL Senscot Legal has been established as social enterprise, to provide a quality, affordable legal advice and support to the social enterprise, voluntary and wider third sector in Scotland. Whilst the company must operate as a sustainable business, as a social enterprise any surpluses will be utilised to develop the business itself and/or for the benefit of the social enterprise community in Scotland.

www.se-legal.net

SPRUCE CARPETS Established in 2005, Spruce is Scotland’s 1st carpet ‘re-use’ social enterprise. With a showroom and offices in Govan we employ experienced staff and also benefit from our trusted volunteers and work placement individuals. Spruce specialises in offering sustainable flooring products at affordable prices and provides work and training opportunities for people who have been excluded from the workplace.

www.sprucecarpets.org.uk

THE SPARK The Spark provides early intervention services to anyone experiencing relationship difficulties. This can be working within schools, young people moving into employment that may have a history of emotional issues that prevents them moving on with their lives. Support for individuals, couples and families across Scotland struggling with relationship issues. Relationship coaching, counselling by phone, online, or face to face.

www.thespark.org.uk

THE WISE GROUP The Wise Group is an inspiring social enterprise that was established in Glasgow in 1983 and makes a positive difference to people, communities and society. We now work across Scotland and the north-east of England to realise people’s potential, create a fairer society and contribute to sustainable economic growth.

www.thewisegroup.co.uk

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EnterpriseNetwork

GSEN is a membership network of Greater Glasgow social enterprise

leaders who believe that social enterprise can transform the

economic, environmental, social, and cultural life of Glasgow.

By supporting, promoting and developing social enterprise we

aim to create an environment in Glasgow in which social

enterprise is able to flourish.

Elizabeth McKenna Network Manager

Glasgow Social Enterprise Network

Off ice No: 0141 425 2920Mobile: 07584 422775

[email protected] www.gsen.org.uk

@GlasgowSEN

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