Breakthrough Agenda - October 2009

Breakthrough Meeting - Thursday 8th October 2009

Venue:
Department for Business Innovation & Skills
The Westminster Conference Centre
Next to: 1 Victoria Street
London SW1H 0ET

The meeting will commence at 9.30 and close at 2pm, lunch will be served at 1pm.
Please confirm if you are staying for lunch

Nearest Tube: St James’s Park

Contact on the day:
Client Co-ordinator: Marie Macey 07976644429

09.30 am Registration and Networking
Join us for coffee and take the opportunity to catch up with other members

09.45 am Welcome and introductions

10.00 am The key Challenges for Community Cohesion in the Recession
Lena Patel, Institute of Community Cohesion
Lena works closely with Ted Cantle at iCoCo on developing approaches to community cohesion in the public and private sector. Lena will share with us the tools developed by iCoCo to support public sector organizations, and the early findings from cohesion reviews in the UK. Daljit Kaur, Institute of Community Cohesion Director, Development Services and was part of the group that set up iCoCo in 2005.

11.00 am Break

11.15 am The Most Inclusive Games Ever-Meeting the External Challenge
David Morris The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games Ltd

12.00 am Heads Up - Developments in Equality and Diversity in The UK and EU
Deirdre Golden, Director, ORC Worldwide
Deirdre will present a round-up of the latest developments and initiatives in the UK and related European equality and diversity agenda.

Confidential Roundtable Discussion
This is members' opportunity to raise and discuss any issues or topics that are of particular interest to them and which you would welcome the thoughts or feedback from your peers if we have issues/subjects in advance we can share them with members who can come prepared to discuss their organisation approach. Please send any roundtable questions to Marie Macey: marie.macey@orcww.com

1.00 pm Lunch and continuation of roundtable discussion

2.00 pm Close of meeting