Scaling Up Local Food Enterprises event

January 17, 2012

An interesting and relevant event coming up soon…

Scaling Up Local Food Enterprises
10^th February 2012 at 10.30 – 3:30pm Romero Centre Macclesfield
(Optional extra …see Food 4 Macc direct pick up evening on Thursday 9^th February at 6pm)

This Event will bring together existing established community scale food enterprises and show case national and international examples

Agenda
10 am Registration and drinks
10:30am Welcome and introduction to the day Mick Marston Northern Development Co-coordinator
10:45 am Presentations and Questions
True Food Anna Batchelor
Food 4 Macc Tim Shercliff
Stroudco Jade Bashford
11:45 comfort stretch!!!
12 noon
Unicorn Supermarket. Debbie Clarke Sustain
European Experience Bico-op/GAS Jade Bashford Soil Association
International Experience Ruth Little ESRC-CASE studentship
1 pm Local Lunch
1:45 Carousel workshops
Producer contacts and contracts Tim Sheriff
Marketing Anna Batchelor
Getting organized..Governance Mark Simmonds Co-ops UK
Each participant will get opportunity to visit each workshop leader
2; 45 Facilitated discussion
Coop.ORG is a social enterprise, a producer-consumer food co operative, linking producers with new customers through a network of consumer buying groups Myth or reality?