HOW TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE:
REFLECTION ON CURRENT PRACTICE
Switch on your brain... unleash your potential... build new networks... explore unexpected possibilities... Come to Wigan and Leigh Extreme!
Wigan and Leigh Extreme is a week-long event designed to show how social entrepreneurs can change their homes and the world - and make a living at the same time!
Our unique Ideas Factory incorporates a two-day national conference designed to help you turn your dreams into reality.
For details of the national event, please see below.
For details of the full week of events, please see the Overview section.
The event programme can be downloaded here.
WHAT?
Wigan and Leigh Extreme is a unique event for social enterprises, local people, public agencies and their partners. Find out how new networks built on trust and understanding can develop enterprise in communities and promote working neighbourhoods.
Wigan and Leigh Extreme is a week-long school for social enterprises and their partners, with workshops, advice surgeries and a two-day national conference on community action.
The two-day conference is open to community groups, voluntary organisations, public agencies and their partners nationwide.
WHEN?
The national conference is on 18 and 19 March 2008. Experienced speakers and facilitators will take you through key aspects of creating local enterprise - from the policy context through to the personal implications, from creative skills through to financial survival.
Speakers already confirmed include Toby Blume, chief executive, Urban Forum; Geraldine Blake, Community Links; and Professor Carolyn Kagan, Manchester Metropolitan University.
WHERE?
The conference will be held at the Waterside Conference Centre, Wigan (WN3 5BA) which is one of the most attractive venues in the northwest, beside the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.
WHO IS IT FOR?
If you're interested in neighbourhoods that work better, new opportunities for local people, promoting social enterprises or just making your community a better place, this event is for you! The key theme is about how reflection and transformation can lead to strategy and action.
WHAT DOES IT COST?
Public organisations or private companies: £150.00
Voluntary and community organisations: £75.00
Register your place now.
Bursaries are available - please ask for details
