Chair: Eddie Finch, Partner, Buzzacott LLP Contributors: Stuart Lockwood, CEO, Oldham Leisure, and Chair, Community Leisure UK Peter Burt, Inspiring Healthy Lifestyles, Chair, GM Active This session will draw on the experience of GM Active, which brings together 12 Leisure trusts across Greater Manchester to work together to get more people healthy and active in the region. What are the conditions required for successful collaboration? How can co-operation strengthen the offer and what are the benefits? What new opportunities are present themselves from a collaboration such as GM active? How could this work in other areas? Eddie joined Buzzacott in 2003 and is a Partner in the Charity & Not-for-Profit team. Alongside a diverse portfolio of charities and membership organisations, he leads the firm’s work with social businesses. His client organisations operate locally, nationally and internationally, and across a range of activities encompassing international development, public service delivery and a wide variety of membership activities. In addition to offering advice relating to financial statements and reporting, Eddie and his team also offer structures and governance advisory, business and financial planning, funder assurance and transaction due diligence, reviews of systems and processes and training for trustees and staff. Alongside his work duties, Eddie is an avid speaker and writer, contributing regular articles for Pioneers Post and other publications, as well as presenting on a broad range of topics within Buzzacott’s own training and seminars, and at sector events. He is a member of the Finance and Resources Committee of Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP), a social enterprise working with NGO, public sector and corporate partners to bring innovative market based solutions to deliver healthy and reliable sanitation and water supplies. He has held a number of trustee roles including as treasurer of his local Age UK charity and of a furniture reuse programme. With over 25 years’ experience of Management roles within the industry, Stuart has worked across the North of England for various Councils, Trusts and Private Sector contractors. He has held the role of Chief Executive at Oldham Community Leisure for over five years and has been Chair of Community Leisure UK (formerly known as Sporta), the members association for Leisure and Cultural Trusts, for almost two years. He is a keen advocate of the Trust model, citing the cross-subsidy, charitable purpose along with the flexibility to be innovative and customer-focussed as the ideal vehicle to deliver health outcomes and a high quality service for Council Commissioners. Pete Burt has been the MD of Inspiring healthy lifestyles (IHL) since 2015. IHL is a charitable body and social enterprise, providing integrated and cost-effective healthy lifestyle services. The company is socially motivated but also commercially focused, devoted to improving lives through health, fitness and wellbeing services in Wigan, Greater Manchester; Cannock Chase, Staffordshire and Selby, North Yorkshire. For the last two years Pete has also served as the Chairman of GM Active, an informal collection of 12 leisure and community organisations that are collaborating energetically to get more people physically active across the City Region. In April this year, they will be formally constituted as a Community Interest Company. Pete has held several senior roles at high-profile organisations including Centrica, Scottish Power and in the electrical appliance servicing sector. He passionately believes that you achieve more by working together and fully supports GM Active’s strapline – ‘We Move as One’.
Chair: Eddie Finch, Partner, Buzzacott LLP Contributors: Stuart Lockwood, CEO, Oldham Leisure, and Chair, Community Leisure UK Peter Burt, Inspiring Healthy Lifestyles, Chair, GM Active This session will draw on the experience of GM Active, which brings together 12 Leisure trusts across Greater Manchester to work together to get more people healthy and active in the region. What are the conditions required for successful collaboration? How can co-operation strengthen the offer and what are the benefits? What new opportunities are present themselves from a collaboration such as GM active? How could this work in other areas? Eddie joined Buzzacott in 2003 and is a Partner in the Charity & Not-for-Profit team. Alongside a diverse portfolio of charities and membership organisations, he leads the firm’s work with social businesses. His client organisations operate locally, nationally and internationally, and across a range of activities encompassing international development, public service delivery and a wide variety of membership activities. In addition to offering advice relating to financial statements and reporting, Eddie and his team also offer structures and governance advisory, business and financial planning, funder assurance and transaction due diligence, reviews of systems and processes and training for trustees and staff. Alongside his work duties, Eddie is an avid speaker and writer, contributing regular articles for Pioneers Post and other publications, as well as presenting on a broad range of topics within Buzzacott’s own training and seminars, and at sector events. He is a member of the Finance and Resources Committee of Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP), a social enterprise working with NGO, public sector and corporate partners to bring innovative market based solutions to deliver healthy and reliable sanitation and water supplies. He has held a number of trustee roles including as treasurer of his local Age UK charity and of a furniture reuse programme. With over 25 years’ experience of Management roles within the industry, Stuart has worked across the North of England for various Councils, Trusts and Private Sector contractors. He has held the role of Chief Executive at Oldham Community Leisure for over five years and has been Chair of Community Leisure UK (formerly known as Sporta), the members association for Leisure and Cultural Trusts, for almost two years. He is a keen advocate of the Trust model, citing the cross-subsidy, charitable purpose along with the flexibility to be innovative and customer-focussed as the ideal vehicle to deliver health outcomes and a high quality service for Council Commissioners. Pete Burt has been the MD of Inspiring healthy lifestyles (IHL) since 2015. IHL is a charitable body and social enterprise, providing integrated and cost-effective healthy lifestyle services. The company is socially motivated but also commercially focused, devoted to improving lives through health, fitness and wellbeing services in Wigan, Greater Manchester; Cannock Chase, Staffordshire and Selby, North Yorkshire. For the last two years Pete has also served as the Chairman of GM Active, an informal collection of 12 leisure and community organisations that are collaborating energetically to get more people physically active across the City Region. In April this year, they will be formally constituted as a Community Interest Company. Pete has held several senior roles at high-profile organisations including Centrica, Scottish Power and in the electrical appliance servicing sector. He passionately believes that you achieve more by working together and fully supports GM Active’s strapline – ‘We Move as One’.