The Wheel's Social Enterprise Member Network Meeting
The Wheel's Social Enterprise Member Network Meeting
We're looking forward to welcoming you along to our online Social Enterprise Member Network session, on Wednesday, 18 June.
Building on the member network’s recent focus on socially responsible public procurement and the Buy Social campaign, we will explore opportunities for collaboration and partnership across social economy organisations. There will be a particular focus on the cross European baSE project, aiming at upskilling and reskilling the workers in the sector across Europe.
The project coordinators will present:
- The project's goal and their experience working as part of a large partnership on a European project
- Research findings on the training and skills gaps among community and voluntary organisations, social enterprises and charities in Ireland
- The creation of courses directed at workers in the sector.
There will be a short Q&A, followed by a brief presentation of the Erasmus+ funded RISE project, focused on Engaged Research.
These network meetings help us to build a ‘bottom-up’ approach to our work in social enterprise and give our community of members the opportunity to build relationships among like-minded organisations, shape our policy work and let us know what supports you need.
This is a free event but spaces are limited so don’t miss out. Register below.
- You can book places for yourself and/or colleagues by clicking the button below.
- This event will take place on Zoom.
- Closed Captions can be enabled by participants
- Please email matthew@wheel.ie if you have any special requirements.
Meet Your Facilitator:
Johnny Sheehan is The Wheel’s Member Engagement Manager. He works to ensure all our members are supported to work more effectively at a local, regional and national level. Johnny supports the public policy team to represent our members’, and the wider sector’s, shared interests. He has more than 25 years’ experience working in the development, youth work and environmental sectors and have served as a trustee on a number of charity boards. Johnny has a Law Society certificate in Charity Law, Trusteeship and Governance.
Meet Your Speakers:
Mairead O'Connor manages the skills development team at The Wheel, overseeing The Wheel's varied capacity-building activities. These include an extensive training and events calendar, various skills-building projects & initiatives and The Wheel's engagement with the national skills agenda and stakeholders.
She also works with various stakeholders across the sector, national policy-makers and the education and training sector to ensure that nonprofit organisations of all types, and those that work for them, are well served by the state's skills development infrastructure.
Perrine Cesbron joined The Wheel as Programme Support Officer in November 2022 where she began working with the Skills Development and Events & Programmes teams. Perrine later moved to our EU Programmes team as a Programme Officer, where she currently manages three European Programmes. Perrine has a bachelor's degree in English and Spanish Languages, a master's degree in international Cultural Strategies, and a professional background in marketing and events management.