Private & SocialEnterprise Collaboration1st May 2012

All truth passes through three stages, first it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, then it is accepted as being self-evident.

Arthur Scholpenhaeur

Setting the context

What is the Strategic Investment Board?• Established by Executive to accelerate

infrastructure investment.• Build support for the reform process.• Engage with private/public/voluntary sectors

to deliver infrastructure programme.• Engage with key stakeholders to ensure that

infrastructure programme aligns with social and community issues.

Why private and social collaboration?• Devolved administration more emphasis

on local spend and local connections.• PfG Priority 2: Creating Opportunities. • ISNI 111.• SIB Business Plan.

How we deliver on privateand social collaboration• Enniskillen Acute Hospital.• Maze/Long Kesh. • Artemis – Engaging the local

community through Belfast Schools.

Maze/Long Kesh

Maze/Long Kesh

Maze/Long Kesh

• 360 acre site of ‘regional significance.• Maximise the economic, historical and

reconciliation potential.• Establish a development corporation, building

on previous plan.• Development of a Peace building Conflict

Resolution Centre.• Development of a Agri food Centre of Excellence

with the Royal Ulster Agriculture Society.

Social Regeneration underpins the approach and is a core value• Social Clauses – construction

& supplies & services.• Employability initiatives.• Encourage social enterprises.• Community fund to support

genuine participation.• Genuine & meaningful

stakeholder engagement.

Artemis - engaging the local community through Belfast schools• A social enterprise to run five schools.• To maximise the community benefit –

maximising the school estate.• Enhance facilities include:

Dance studies, 100% larger sports hall, arts facilities, early years units, full-service community rooms/offices, youth centre, electronic villages hall with 60 pc workstations.

Benefits

• Delivering on social/environmental performance targets.

• Supporting and developing extending schools.• Researching and responding to community need• Renting school facilities to create a hub in

the community.• Reinvesting all surplus revenue into community

focused learning and skills initiatives.

Knowledge speaks, wisdom listens.

Jimmy Hendrix

In conclusion