Puhujat - Congreszon

Alec Carlberg
Founder and chairman of Basta

Basta – Interaction between empowerment and profit
The Swedish co-operative Basta has since 1994 grown to an enterprise with today 150 persons. Basta´s main task is to rehabilitate persons with severe drug problems and criminal records. Empowerment is the main rehabilitation tool together with an on going economic development of the enterprise.

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Costanza Fanelli
President of the national federation, Legacoopsociali

Costanza Fanelli is the president of Legacoopsociali, a national association representing social cooperatives members of Legacoop. Its aims are to organize and represent social cooperatives; to promote cooperative policies and values and to support social and entrepreneurial projects. 1.700 cooperatives and social consortia are members of Legacoopsociali that means more than 60.000 employees of whom 75% are women, 90% are worker-members and more than 8000 are disadvantaged people.

Legacoopsociali is involved in the agreements and collective workers contracts and provide assistance and legal and financial advice, supports the promotion and development of cooperatives.

Francesco De Rosa
Inforcoop. Soc. Coop.

Francesco De Rosa is the responsible of the Social Economy area of Inforcoop, the National Research and Training Institute of Legacoop.

Its Members are local training agencies, research and consultancy companies, working in the field of training and research applied to the cooperative sectors. Inforcoop is a national network characterize by: strength link with the territory; differentiate competencies; autonomous management. Inforcoop is part of a group of enterprises (strategic agencies) promoted and strictly connected to Legacoop and under the umbrella of COFIES – Financial Company for the Social Economy.

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Margaret Elliott
Director of Care Services and Company Director, Sunderland Home Care Associates 20/20 Ltd (SHCA)
Development Worker and Company Director, Care And Share Associates (CASA)

Shaun Jackson
Development Worker and Company Director, Care And Share Associates (CASA)

Sunderland Home Care Associates 20/20 Ltd (SHCA ) is an employee owned share company which began trading in 1994 when it employed 20 people and provided 500 hours of care to people in their own homes. SHCA has successfully grown and developed its services and SHCA now employs over 200 people and supplies over 4,000 hours of care every week through a combination of Domiciliary Care, Academic Support to Sunderland University and Sunderland College, a café within two tower blocks with inclusive care for those living in the tower blocks and cover staff for an assisted living scheme. SHCA was awarded the prestigious UK Social Enterprise of the Year Award in 2006 by the Social Enterprise Coalition.

Care And Share Associates (CASA) was created in 2004 to replicate and promote the hugely successful SHCA model. It has successfully created new employee owned companies providing domiciliary care in North Tyneside, Newcastle and Manchester which, between them, employ over 100 people and supply almost 3,000 hours of care every week.

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Antonella Noya
LEED programme, OECD

Antonella Noya is a policy analyst with the OECD LEED Programme, where she has been working since 1997. She designs and implements the OECD activities on social inclusion at local level and is the Manager of the OECD/LEED Forum on Social Innovations, created in 2000 to identify evaluate and disseminate the most challenging social innovation strategies and practices.

The LEED Programme, identifies, analyses and disseminates , since 1982, innovative ideas relating to local development, governance and the social economy. Based on the voluntary participation of countries, its programme of work provides a large measure of operational flexibility. The LEED Programme has provided a vital contribution to local development for over 25 years, providing rationale for new policies and improving local practices, and is still exploring and pushing further the frontier of knowledge in this area.

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Karl Palmås
University of Gothenburgh

Dr Karl Palmås is a researcher at the Centre for Business in Society, which is based at the School of Business, Economics & Law, Göteborg University. The research centre studies the role and responsibilities of business in society, focusing on issues such as corporate social responsibility, sustainable development, as well as social enterprise. Karl Palmås has studied the field of social enterprise since 2002, and published the book "Den Barmhärtiga Entreprenören" (Stockholm: Agora) in 2003. He is currently conducting a study of UK-based social entrepreneurs.

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Keith Richardson

Inspire Director, North East Social Enterprise Partnership

Keith Richardson worked for MIND, the mental health charity, and then set up a consultancy supporting community development. He joined the sustainability centre, Earth Balance where he ran the most profitable elements of the centre including a day care service.

He now works for Economic Partnerships, a cooperative that supports the
development of social enterprises across Europe. A key elements of his work has been setting up the North East Social Enterprise Partnership, of which he is a Director. Keith Richardson currently leads on their INSPIRE R&D Unit for Social Enterprise funded by Equal.

Keith Richardson was author of “Frequent Movers – Looking for Love” published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and a chapter in “The Human Sustainable City – Challenges & Perspectives From The HABITAT Agenda”. He was a Council Member of the social investment society Shared Interest, CND and a Director of the UK’s Social Enterprise Coalition.

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