Event Information

Third Sector Lancashire presents:
Big Society Lancashire?
22 September 2010
Park Hall Hotel, Chorley

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Contact Us

You can contact the event organisers on either of the following methods:

Email: thirdsectorlancashire@glasgows.co.uk
Tel: 01772 767737

Workshops

1) When Big Society meets Big Business

With an emphasis on enterprising ideas for commerce, business and industry across Lancashire, this workshop will take a view on building the big society.

Discussion themes include:

  • Building cross-sector relationships
  • Collaboration and consortia
  • Capacity building
  • Opportunities for growth and development

2) Getting the right treatment: what’s the antidote?

With a focus on health, social care and communities, this workshop intends to explore what the future could look like?

Discussion themes include:

  • Personalization agenda
  • Prevention
  • Identifying localism
  • Changing face of policy and delivery

3) Big ideas, brighter futures: what are the pathways through participation?

This workshop includes identifying what’s the big society in action? What the opportunities are for knowledge transfer, participation, learning and skills?

Discussion themes include:

  • Unleashing the potential of graduates
  • Knowledge transfer
  • Volunteering
  • Managing the ‘risk’

4) Big on crime, big on safety, big on support: bringing policing closer to the people?

This workshop identifies issues around crime, community safety and support, looking at cross-sector working with a focus on the role of voluntary, community and faith organizations in solving issues at a local level.

Discussion themes include:

  • Community safety
  • Substance misuse
  • Domestic violence
  • Victim support
  • The role of ‘the community court’