RISE Conference

Thursday 29 May 2008

Thursday 29 May 2008

10.00am

2.00pm

Iontas Centre- Castleblaney- Co. Monaghan

The conference is free - pre-registration required

Event

Social Economy Solutions is pleased to invite you to the RISE conference – a unique cross-border event which brings together key stakeholders from the community and public sector to present, network and discuss on the developmental agenda for community and social enterprise organisations in Ireland, North and South.

This is a unique cross border conference focussing on the challenges facing the community and voluntary sector and social economy organisations in Ireland. The conference will include contributions from a number of keynote speakers and will include a number of interactive workshops relating to the conference theme. This conference is part of the RISE project; the Rural Initiative for Social Economy.

RISE conference participants will hear leading speakers in the field of community and social enterprise development from Ireland; Northern Ireland and Britain. The conference will address policy matters, financial sustainability and networking for growth.

The RISE cross-border conference is a forum for debate on the challenges facing the sector and will provide delegates with an opportunity to learn from the experiences of others, to share their own knowledge with others from the community sector, government and development support organisations.

The RISE conference keynote speakers are;

Denis Leamy, the Chief Executive Officer at Pobal (www.pobal.ie).
Pobal is a not-for-profit company with charitable status that manages programmes on behalf of the Irish Government and The EU. Pobal support partnership approaches to decision-making in order to engage communities in the development process at local level, and promote co-ordination between communities, state agencies and other stakeholders. Pobal is committed to contributing to policy development through the lessons learnt from the programmes it manages.

James Money-Kyrle, the Chief Executive Officer at The Plunkett Foundation (www.plunkett.co.uk).
The Plunkett Foundation is an educational charity, which supports the development of rural group enterprise world-wide. The Foundation draws on 80 years' practical experience of working with partners from the private sector to promote and implement economic self-help solutions to rural problems.

Graham Collins Sustainable Funding Project at NCVO (www.ncvo-vol.org.uk).
The National Council for Voluntary Organisations is an advocacy and lobbying organisation and represents the views of its members, and the wider voluntary sector to government, the European Union and other bodies. NCVO is at the leading edge of research into, and analysis of, the voluntary sector. NCVO campaigns on generic issues affecting the whole of the voluntary sector such as the role of the voluntary organisations in public service delivery and the future of local government.