Voice10 is the UK's landmark conference for social enterprise. Now in its sixth year, the 2010 event will be hosted in Wales for the first time.

Social Enterprise: No More Business as Usual.

Social enterprises are businesses that place ethics, transparency and social and environmental return at their core.

With the UK still in a recession, now is the time to challenge the ‘usual’ approach to business. At Voice10, the movement will come together to respond to some key questions and provide answers to challenges we are facing:

• Can they reform public services at a time when value for money is one of the most important challenges facing us today?
• How can we ensure social enterprises have a greater impact and help rebuild a better, more sustainable economy?
• And how can we make new connections and collaborate with each other and with the private sector?

Social enterprises are businesses run for social and environmental purposes. There are approximately 62,000 social enterprises in the UK with a combined turnover of £27billion. They operate in a wide variety of sectors including health, education, retail, technology, renewable energy, the arts, and employment.

For the past five years Voice has brought together thousands of people from the UK and abroad, including leaders from the worlds of social enterprise, government, politics and business.

 "Your creativity, dynamism, compassion and ingenuity is absolutely central to the good economic future we must build in our country"
Conservative party leader David Cameron, Voice09

Confirmed speakers

·         Peter Holbrook, Chief Executive, Social Enterprise Coalition

·         Phillip Blond, Director, ResPublica

·         Karen Lowthrop, Chief Executive, Hill Holt Wood

·         Ed Mayo, Chief Executive, Co-operatives UK

·         Nigel Annett, Managing Director, Welsh Water

·         Leighton Andrews AM, Deputy Minister for Regeneration, Welsh Assembly Government

·         Claire Dove, Chair, Social Enterprise Coalition

·         Mikel Lezamiz, Director, Mondragon Corporacion Cooperative, Spain

·         Lord Victor Adebowale, Chief Executive, Turning Point

·         Caroline Mason, Director, Investing for Good CIC

10% discount for groups of 5 or more. For ticket and exhibition sales, contact voice@confpeople.co.ukor call 01323 637714, fax: 01323 637777.

www.voice10.org