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?