GOOD DEALS

the first national social investment conference

6 May 2008

LSO St Lukes, 161 Old Street, London EC1V 9NG

 

 

 

Good Deals programme:

8.30 - 9.00 Arrival, registration, coffee

9.00 - 9.10 Introduction from conference chair:
Liam Black, board advisor to the Fifteen Foundation and Social Enterprise Ambassador

9.10 - 9.40 Building a social finance market in the UK

 

Phil Hope, Minister for the Third Sector, Cabinet Office

Steve Pateman, Chief Executive, UK Business Banking, RBS Group

Malcolm Hayday, Chief Executive, Charity Bank

9.40 - 10.30 Matches made in heaven - inspiring examples of investment partnerships designed to deliver major social returns

 

Duncan Sloan, Head of Community Banking, Royal Bank of Scotland & NatWest with Peter Jervis, Deputy Director, Wigmore Hall

 

Tim Crabtree, Director, Wessex Reinvestment Trust with Charles Couzens, Executive Director, Ecos Trust

 

Sarah Forster, Director of Development, Big Issue Invest with Andy James, Assistant CEO, Turning Point

10.30 - 10.50 Coffee break

10.50 - 11.40 State of the Nation debate chaired by Liam Black, with:

 

Jonathan Bland, CEO, Social Enterprise Coalition

Nigel Kershaw, CEO, Big Issue Invest

Jonathan Lewis, CEO, Adventure Capital Fund Bernie Morgan, CEO, cdfa

Rowena Young, Programme Director, Social Innovation and Finance, NESTA

11.40 - 12.10 Good Deal pitch 1: Faisel Rahman, CEO, Fair Finance, wants £5m to conquer loan sharks feeding off the financially excluded

 

Moderator: Antony Ross, Director, Bridges Ventures

 

Investment panellists: Mark Mansley, Investment Director, Rathbones

Naomi Kingsley, CEO, London Rebuilding Society

Whitni Thomas, Investment Manager, Triodos Bank

Jeremy Nicholls, SROI UK

12.10 - 12.40 Stories from the mainstream — engaging mainstream providers in the social investment marketplace

 

Geoff Burnand, CEO, Investing for Good

Ben Metz, UK Director, Ashoka

12.40 - 13.00 Independence, innovation and ambition — transformational investment approaches

Ed Miliband, Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, in conversation with Jonathan Kestenbaum, CEO, NESTA

13.00 - 14.40 Buffet lunch including Match Maker sessions - speed networking between investors and investees. See 'Meet the Investors' page for details

14.40 - 15.20 Conference challenge by Sir Tom Hunter, Founding Partner, West Coast Capital and Chairman, The Hunter Foundation

 

“With great wealth comes great responsibility”

 

Backing business that transforms lives — Phil Hope, Minister for the Third Sector, in conversation with:

 

Sir Tom Hunter, Founding Partner, West Coast Capital and Chairman, The Hunter Foundation

 

Young inventors Amanda Jones and James Brown, co-founders of Red Button Design, who create “products which address real human needs and not just human desire”, and who recently won over every one of the investors from TV’Äôs Dragons’ Den

 

Ralph Catto, venture philanthropist and member of high-networth investor network Equity Plus and director of a global business network that aims to “use business to bring spiritual and physical transformation to the world’s poor”

15.20 - 15.50 Good Deal pitch 2

Rose Marley, director, MOTIV CIC, wants £250,000 to keep thousands of teenagers out of trouble and in the classroom

 

Moderator: Antony Ross, Director, Bridges Ventures

 

Investment panellists: Sarah Dodds, Director, UnLtd Ventures; John Kingston, CEO, Venturesome; Daniel Brewer, Director, Resonance

 

15.50 - 16.15 Finance hyperspace part I — social investment pioneers exploring new dimensions.

A Social Investment Wholesaler

—presented by Hilary Norman, deputy director, Office of the Third Sector

Sustainable financing of social infrastructure
—presented by Adrian Ewer, CEO, John Laing plc

16.15 - 16.25 Short break

 

16.25 - 16.55 Good Deal pitch 3

Sophi Tranchell, Managing Director, Divine Chocolate, wants $1m to break into the US chocolate market

 

Moderator: Antony Ross, Director, Bridges Ventures

 

Investment panellists: Duncan Sloan, Head of Community Banking, The Royal Bank of Scotland and NatWest; Rod Schwarz, CEO, Catalyst; Ralph Catto, Director, TBN; Kevin Robbie, OTS

 

16.55 - 17.20 Finance hyperspace part II

Innovation in social investment products

— presented by Toby Eccles, Development Director, Social Finance

Building a Social Stock Exchange

— presented by Mark Campanale, Associate Director, London Bridge Capital

 

17.20 - 17.30 Summing up by Liam Black, conference chair

 

17.45 - 19.15 Drinks reception hosted by the Social Enterprise Ambassadors and London Rebuilding Society