Exploring issues facing businesses
Profit with purpose, Environmental & Social Governance (ESG), Social Value, CSR. From climate change to attracting and retaining a new more socially minded generation of employees - recent events have brought exploring and articulating businesses’ wider role in society up many board and exec agendas.
This quarterly forum for GBCC members explores how businesses are tackling this subject and why: the tangible business benefits to doing so. Each event sees a panel of; a business case study, a professional advisor and a representative from the public or third sector sharing their insights and perspectives before a series of roundtable discussions.
Attend for:
- Insight into approaches to ESG, CSR and Social value
- Opportunities to learn from and share with your peers
- Broaden your network of likeminded businesses
- Practical tips that you can apply in your organisation
Aimed at:
- Board members, leaders and managers looking to learn about and/or share their insights on this agenda
- Individuals interested in informing their organisation’s approach to this agenda
Feedback from our 2023 series showed 89% of delegates learned something new at a Good Business Forum that they could directly apply in their organisation or role and 100% made new contacts.
Guest Speakers:
Joshua Meek, Head of Sustainability, Unity Trust Bank
Josh is Head of Impact & Sustainability at Unity Trust Bank. With over 10 years of impact and development experience, he has worked in both the UK and east Africa across a wide range of sectors, working directly with businesses to access finance, achieve their goals, build resilience to climate change and ultimately deliver positive impact in their communities.
Laura Ayre, Commercial Partner, Pinsent Masons
Shah Begum, Outreach and Impacts Manager, United by 2022 Legacy Charity
Shah Begum is Head of Outreach and Social Value at United By 2022 Legacy Charity – the official legacy charity of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, and is a secondee from international law firm Gowling WLG (UK) LLP.
The Games was the first major sporting event to measure its social value return on investment. It brought together the private, public and third sector to form ground breaking new collaborations and delivered over £300m in social value.
Shah will share her expereince of this trailblazer work and the charity’s mission to embed social value within the West Midlands and make it an exemplar model for social value done well.
Further speakers to be announced
Venue
Unity Trust Bank,
Unity 4 Brindley Pl,
Birmingham B1 2JB
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