Chair: Hannah Kubie, Partner, Stone King Contributors: Tracey Harrison, Assistant Director Commissioning (Prevention and Adult Social Care), Public Health and Wellbeing, Rochdale Council Rachel Law, CEO, PossAbilities Malcolm Mclean, Business Development Manager, PossAbilities Drawing on the experience of the partnership between PossAbilities and Rochdale Council, and the experience of Nudge Community Builders, this session will focus on: How can public authorities work with social enterprises to support innovation and opportunity? How do social enterprise models support innovation? What are the conditions needed for success? Hannah advises charities and social enterprises on incorporation and registrations, governance issues, commercial operations and mergers and transfers. Her particular expertise is in contracts and grants, and she acts for a number of publicly funded organisations. She frequently advises on collaborations and partnerships, procurement and trading. She is also experienced in the establishment of academies and free schools, both as part of single model and multi-model academy trusts. Hannah works closely with the firm’s Corporate team in the area of social finance, which includes advising organisations seeking to raise funds and advising charities on their social investments. An active member of the Charity Law Association, Hannah recently participated in its working party on the Law Commission’s consultation on a new social investment power for charities. Hannah trained and qualified at Linklaters, and subsequently worked at Capsticks prior to joining Stone King in 2010. Her decision to specialise in the charity sector was in part influenced by her secondment at an international children’s charity. Tracey has a wealth of experience across local government and the public sector. She has managed and delivered a range of pioneering projects, delivering new models of service delivery and successful outcomes for local residents. After successfully leading and managing on phase 1 children’s centres and day-care facilities, she became senior planning and commissioning manager within children’s services at Oldham Council. Tracey led the way on designing and delivering integrated new services for young people and families, helping to reduce health inequalities and give children the best start in life. After a decade of delivery at Oldham, she joined Rochdale Borough Council in 2018 as assistant director for commissioning across adult care and prevention. Her strategic approach has already seen the design and delivery of new commissioning models across the borough. A mother of two grown up sons, in her spare time Tracey enjoys live music, walking and watching a range of sports. She is a proud northerner, passionate about delivering future successful projects in her wide-ranging role at Rochdale. Rachel took the long way round to her position as PossAbilities’ first Chief Executive, and it’s a route that she wouldn’t change for the world. Without a great deal of thought she found herself working as a Care Assistant looking after people with learning disabilities and stumbled upon something she loved. Twenty years on, she has worked in practically every position from Care Assistant to Chief Executive, giving her an understanding of the detail that enabled her to restructure services significantly, before moving them out to the social enterprise sector. The creation of PossAbilities and everything it stands for is, so far, one of her greatest achievements. She says, “It took two years of hard slog, diplomacy, evangelism, technical wrangling and bureaucracy busting to get us out of the public sector… We’ve created a place where people earn a living doing what they love; a place that’s fun to be in; PossAbilities has become a place where anything is possible.” Rachel’s weakness is her love for animals. The urban farm seems to have new recruits almost on a weekly basis and every Wednesday she receives a visit from Woody, the PossAbilities Dementia Dog. After a fast track career in NHS management where he was a General Manager, Malcolm felt that there was an entrepreneur inside him trying to get out. He moved to the private sector setting up Salford University Business Services Healthcare Management Consultancy, before going on to set up a string of his own enterprises, including MJM Healthcare Solutions; Mental Health Strategies; Bearhunt; The School of Curiosity and the not-for-profit It’s a Goal! Foundation, to tackle depression in young men, for which he won an Unltd Award. He is the Business Development consultant for PossAbilities CIC. He is a Sunday Times Best Selling Author and has published five books with translations to Turkish, Romanian, Korean, Chinese, and a special Indian version.
Chair: Hannah Kubie, Partner, Stone King Contributors: Tracey Harrison, Assistant Director Commissioning (Prevention and Adult Social Care), Public Health and Wellbeing, Rochdale Council Rachel Law, CEO, PossAbilities Malcolm Mclean, Business Development Manager, PossAbilities Drawing on the experience of the partnership between PossAbilities and Rochdale Council, and the experience of Nudge Community Builders, this session will focus on: How can public authorities work with social enterprises to support innovation and opportunity? How do social enterprise models support innovation? What are the conditions needed for success? Hannah advises charities and social enterprises on incorporation and registrations, governance issues, commercial operations and mergers and transfers. Her particular expertise is in contracts and grants, and she acts for a number of publicly funded organisations. She frequently advises on collaborations and partnerships, procurement and trading. She is also experienced in the establishment of academies and free schools, both as part of single model and multi-model academy trusts. Hannah works closely with the firm’s Corporate team in the area of social finance, which includes advising organisations seeking to raise funds and advising charities on their social investments. An active member of the Charity Law Association, Hannah recently participated in its working party on the Law Commission’s consultation on a new social investment power for charities. Hannah trained and qualified at Linklaters, and subsequently worked at Capsticks prior to joining Stone King in 2010. Her decision to specialise in the charity sector was in part influenced by her secondment at an international children’s charity. Tracey has a wealth of experience across local government and the public sector. She has managed and delivered a range of pioneering projects, delivering new models of service delivery and successful outcomes for local residents. After successfully leading and managing on phase 1 children’s centres and day-care facilities, she became senior planning and commissioning manager within children’s services at Oldham Council. Tracey led the way on designing and delivering integrated new services for young people and families, helping to reduce health inequalities and give children the best start in life. After a decade of delivery at Oldham, she joined Rochdale Borough Council in 2018 as assistant director for commissioning across adult care and prevention. Her strategic approach has already seen the design and delivery of new commissioning models across the borough. A mother of two grown up sons, in her spare time Tracey enjoys live music, walking and watching a range of sports. She is a proud northerner, passionate about delivering future successful projects in her wide-ranging role at Rochdale. Rachel took the long way round to her position as PossAbilities’ first Chief Executive, and it’s a route that she wouldn’t change for the world. Without a great deal of thought she found herself working as a Care Assistant looking after people with learning disabilities and stumbled upon something she loved. Twenty years on, she has worked in practically every position from Care Assistant to Chief Executive, giving her an understanding of the detail that enabled her to restructure services significantly, before moving them out to the social enterprise sector. The creation of PossAbilities and everything it stands for is, so far, one of her greatest achievements. She says, “It took two years of hard slog, diplomacy, evangelism, technical wrangling and bureaucracy busting to get us out of the public sector… We’ve created a place where people earn a living doing what they love; a place that’s fun to be in; PossAbilities has become a place where anything is possible.” Rachel’s weakness is her love for animals. The urban farm seems to have new recruits almost on a weekly basis and every Wednesday she receives a visit from Woody, the PossAbilities Dementia Dog. After a fast track career in NHS management where he was a General Manager, Malcolm felt that there was an entrepreneur inside him trying to get out. He moved to the private sector setting up Salford University Business Services Healthcare Management Consultancy, before going on to set up a string of his own enterprises, including MJM Healthcare Solutions; Mental Health Strategies; Bearhunt; The School of Curiosity and the not-for-profit It’s a Goal! Foundation, to tackle depression in young men, for which he won an Unltd Award. He is the Business Development consultant for PossAbilities CIC. He is a Sunday Times Best Selling Author and has published five books with translations to Turkish, Romanian, Korean, Chinese, and a special Indian version.