The FairShares Association has supplied its intellectual property to help with the Co-operative and Social Enterprise Summer School run by Social Enterprise Europe between 2nd – 4th July at Sheffield Hallam University . Delegates used FairShares Diagnostics (an Initial Social Audit tool, and Advance Governance Diagnostics tool) to learn about multi-stakeholder social enterprises. There were 25 participants over 3 days from England, Denmark, Wales, Vietnam, South Korea, Indonesia, United Arab Emirates and Peru.
The summer school followed on from the first Fairshares Association conference (on 1st July). Some delegates attended both events, bringing people from the length and breadth of England to Sheffield https://valiumsedative.com/diazepam/ Business School to set the association’s priorities for the future. Using the Opera technique promoted by Innotiimi, the association established five themes that supporters and members will now pursue. We have set up a Loomio group so supporters can take decisions on the following activities:
1) Partnership Development
2) Establishing Pilot Enterprises
3) Designing and Developing Courses
4) Getting FairShares Discussed Everywhere
5) Becoming Expert in Crowd Funding / Investing
The end of the summer school (4th July) marked the fourth and final day of learning activities linked to Co-operatives Fortnight. It was also Employee Ownership Day, an awareness campaign promoted by the Employee Ownership Association.