Social Value Summit

The A&B NI Social Value Summit, in partnership with Bank of Ireland, will showcase businesses who are at the top of their game, working with arts partners to deliver memorable Social Value with measurable impacts.

This half-day conference will highlight best practices, spark innovative ideas, discuss how to report your impact and explore how businesses across sectors can ignite new partnerships with creative organisations to deliver their Social Value commitments.

Attendees will

• Learn more about the need and opportunities to demonstrate Social Value as part of the public tender process
• Hear from leading voices in the business community who are delivering Social Value for their organisations in innovative and creative ways
• Discover how partnership with NI’s vibrant creative sector can drive social and economic wellbeing
• Gain insights into the principles of Social Value and The Social Value Engine tool which is used to capture and report social return of investment

Speakers Include –

• Lisa Beers, Head of Social Value Unit, Strategic Investment Board. Lisa will set the scene for Social Value in NI and highlight opportunities for creative partnerships, with a focus on the Promoting Wellbeing strand.
• Paula Murphy, Group Director Brand & Sponsorship at Bank of Ireland - Paula will speak about the creation of the Bank of Ireland Begin Together Arts Fund and will share the wide-reaching social impacts achieved across the island of Ireland.
• Sam Donaldson, Director, Perspective Economics – Sam will share insights from commissioned research by Department for Digital Culture Media and Sport on the role of VCSE Organisations in Public Procurement and why Perspective Economics support artist bursaries for the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival which delivers Social Value and business benefits.
• Jo McGinley, Social Value Director, EY. - Jo will outline why EY appointed her its first Director of Social Value and will share some of their initiatives including Carvaggio National Treasures: Caravaggio in Belfast exhibition at Ulster Museum and schools’ engagement programme, volunteering, community partnerships and EDI, which deliver positive impact in the region and bring benefits back to business.
• Conor McGale, Rose Regeneration - Conor will share his insight into the challenge of quantifying the wider social, economic, and environmental outcomes which projects deliver. He will guide us through the Social Return on Investment process and introduce Rose Regeneration’s Social Value Engine. Along the way, he will reference their recent Social Value Analysis, conducted with Belfast Exposed and Oh Yeah Music Centre.

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