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Social Value in Construction Conference - Agenda Announced

6 March, 2015

Social Enterprise West Midlands have just released the agenda for their Social Value in Construction Conference being held at University of Wolverhampton’s Centre For Construction Excellence on 23rd April 2015.

Our first key speaker was announced last week: Hazel Blears, MP for Salford & Eccles who co-authored the Social Value Act with Chris White MP in 2013.

The full programme details include additional speakers and Social Value in Action Case Studies from:

Mears Group
The Aspire Group
Wates Group
Argonaut Enterprises CIC
And more

Attendees will also hear from our conference sponsor Kier Group and our venue host sponsor University of Wolverhampton. We are delighted that Ian Oakes, Deputy Vice - Chancellor will be welcoming attendees on the day. Ian stated:

‘The University of Wolverhampton is delighted to be working with Social Enterprise West Midlands to further highlight the role the construction industry can play in generating benefit for local communities through social innovation and enterprise. The conference comes at a time when the University is currently investing more than £100M in the construction of new facilities for our students across all of our campuses and we are keen to leverage additional benefit for the local communities as a result of this substantial investment’.

See the agenda here for full details.

The Social Value in Construction Conference will bring social enterprises together with leading sector businesses from public commissioning authorities, construction and housing to showcase innovation and share best practice from across the sector. The event is being hosted in response to new business drivers following the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2013, highlighting best practice from the wider construction sector in embracing the benefits of social value as part of corporate social responsibility delivery. There will be a Meet the Buyer Exchange and an Exhibition Zone.