Welcome

Social Audit Network Annual Gathering 19 April 2013

World Café Conversations

Why do social accounting and audit?

Understanding the snags and benefits What do you already do?

How to get started?

Facilitated by Liz Brookes - Allen

Social Accounting and Audit

What’s it all about?

The business of social enterprises & community organisations is to make a difference.

Social Accounting & Audit helps organisations to understand and demonstrate that difference.

What difference do we want to make. . . .

Social Environmental Economic

Why it’s important

to know that we’re making a difference. . . .

To report for our activities and social, environmental & economic impacts To inform future actions & improve performance To be accountable to all those we work with and work for

Prove Improve Account

The SAN approach

Empowering

organisations & communities can track their own SEE impact

Accountable

not just to funders & commissioners, to our community, trustees & partners

Community

community & collective benefit, equality & social justice

“…has helped our organisation and our stakeholders to work together to deliver more effective services to our local community” “…enables us to regularly clarify and analyse our values and assess performance” “…highlights opportunities for improvement as well as providing positive reinforcement for the things we do well”

The Social Audit Network (SAN)

Social enterprise established in 2001 An international network of social accounting & audit practitioners Information, training, mentoring, research, consultancy Verification & register of Social Auditors

• South Africa • Croatia • Nepal • Korea • India

Social Audit Network Annual Gathering 2013

Social Accounting and Audit: Why do it?

Graeme Oram,

Five Lamps

Christy Acton,

ASAN

Matthew Lanham,

NeuroMuscular Centre Chaired by Dr Adam Richards, LJMU

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Investing for Social Impact

Kieron Kirkland, Nominet Trust Pepe Morales, Big Society Capital

Chaired by Mary McGarry

Workshops

1. Why Social Accounting and Audit?

2. How Social Accounting & Audit can help my organisation make a difference.

3. How to gather the opinions that matter.

4. The philosophical challenges.

Lunch

Social Audit Network Annual Gathering 2013

Workshops

1. Social book-keeping – putting the systems in place 2. Why bother to report environmental impact?

3. The Social Audit, what it involves and why it’s important 4. Issues in measuring social impact

SAN Memorial Lecture

Maggie O’Carroll

Chief Executive, The Women’s Organisation Chair, VIVARK, Knowsley Housing Trust Services National Women’s Enterprise Policy Group

Review & Reflections

Chris Dabb, Unlimited Potential

Next Steps the Options: • DIY. Buy the Guide and teach yourself • Attend “Prove, Improve, Account” • Get the 3 day “kick start to SAA” • Talk to your Regional SAN Rep/Director • Join or form a cluster of Organisations. Get trained together and support each other

Thank you & safe journey

Social Audit Network Annual Gathering 2013

Social Audit Network

Annual General Meeting

19 April 2013