Branding: Rowena Vestey
The Big Society is not without its critics, in particular women. There are those who believe we have been at the heart of community giving since we lived in caves, and for no pay and, very often, reduced status as a result. So, for those in this camp, to be told to volunteer more can come across, quire understandably, as ungracious and condescending. But for others, a well-publicised and organised system which encourages social entrepreneurial opportunity is a timely move. Hence, Women’s Role in the Big Society: Blast from the Past or New Vision? as the topic for the event on Tuesday 28th June evening event I am chairing at Somerset House in London.
On the panel will be Steve Moore, CEO of the Big Society Network, west end star and `Support for Africa’ founder Patti Boulaye, award-winning social affairs writer and journalist Mary O’Hara and beauty journalist and co-founder of Green and Black’s chocolate Jo Fairley. The event is being hosted by the Big Society Network in association with the RSA Fellowship Women Speaker Network .
Other featured speakers include Joana Picq of is COO of The Next Women, founder of the Women’s Social Leadership Awards Servane Mouazan who is also CEO of Ogunte, Founder Director of online legal assistance network i-Probono Shireen Irani and Michelle Clothier of Livity, a youth specialist communications and engagement agency.
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