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Grantholder Conference 2017

Event details

Date and location

Thursday 30th November 2017

10:30 am

The Foundry, 17 Oval Way, London SE11 5RR

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The Friends Provident Foundation Grantholder Conference 2017 proved to be a popular event and was full to capacity with representatives from almost all of our grantholder organisations attending.

It was a great opportunity to meet, share ideas and skills, and to explore how we communicate our messages on the economy, as well as generating many other interesting conversations.

For a full round-up view this news article.

The morning session opened with Matthew Taylor from the Royal Society of Arts speaking on the complexity of social change, followed by a presentation and interactive session on Framing the Economy led by Ellie O’Hagan from NEON and Bec Sanderson from PIRC.

After a networking lunch, delegates chose from four workshops: “Building the movement for a new economy: communicating beyond the bubble”; “How listening to your audience can make more people listen to you”; “Local economic resilience and building community assets”; and “Transforming Economics Education: Turning the Tanker?”

The presentation files from the Workshops:

Workshop 1 “Building the movement for a new economy: communicating beyond the bubble”

Victoria Waldersee (Economy)
Clare Goff (New Start)
Laurie Laybourne-Langton (IPPR)

Workshop 2 “How listening to your audience can make more people listen to you”

Jay Bigford (Yoke Design) and Sonja Jefferson (Valuable Content)

Workshop 3 ““Building local economic resilience: empowering communities to meet their own needs”

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Workshop 4 “Transforming Economics Education: Turning the Tanker?”

Lesley Harroun (Partners for a New Economy)
Joe Earle (Rethinking Economics)
Wendy Carlin (CORE)

The day closed with an exploration of the journalist’s view by our panellists David Pilling, Financial Times; Hazel Sheffield, Far Nearer, and Adam Ramsay openDemocracy.