Andy Milne, SURF Chief Executive

How did we get here?

Or……

25 years of SURF

1992 – Back to Basics

1997 – The Third Way

1999 – A Scottish Parliament

2007 – Sustainable Economic

Growth

2008 – The crash of

unregulated greed

2011 – A ‘Community Led’

Regeneration strategy

2013 Resilient Scotland

starts investing

2015 – Inclusive Growth

Statistics and stories, delivery

and learning; a model for wider

practice and policy

1.How would you rank the importance of the following five roles of Social Enterprise in Scotland:

• an alternative business model for meeting local requirements,

• a driver of change towards an alternative Scottish economic model,

• a means of supporting participative community empowerment,

• a way of providing jobs and skills• a way of delivering more effective services.

2. How can social enterprises thrive in very

poor places?

3. What sort of public service would never

be appropriate for enterprise approach?

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