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MPEN Steering Group

MPEN holds monthly meetings of its steering group to decide activity, manage budgets and plan events and services. The group is presently made up of six individuals from social enterprises that are members of MPEN. Other MPEN members are welcome to attend the meeting and input into the Network's future plans.

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Manchester's Local Strategic Partnership (LSP) has eight thematic working groups covering areas such as Sustainable Neighbourhoods, Health & Inequality, Transport.
MPEN holds a Global Economy Pool which feeds into the LSP's Competing in a Global Economy Thematic Group.

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Steering Group Meeting: September 2003

Present: Mick Sheldon, Chris Walsh, Danny Chivers, Jo Southall
Apologies: None

Minutes from last meeting approved.

MSEF
Chris informed the group about the progress of MSEF. It was agreed that Chris would email the MPEN network about MSEF and its development.
It was agreed that MPEN needed an official representative on this group and Danny agreed to ask Emerge if this would be possible for him to sit on the MSEF Working Group.
MPEN will from now on include a section in its Steering Group meeting agenda to discuss MSEF.

MPEN future
We had a discussion about MPEN's future role and how it wishes to distinguish itself from other social enterprise organisations.
It was agreed that the network was 'a network of practictioners for practioners'.
We reconfimed that the network would have two roles:
1) to provide services for members and to enable members to network and communicate
2) to influence the LSP and CN to ultimately secure NRF funds for social enterprises
It was agreed that we need to achieve concrete achievements in the short term to ensure continued support from members. And that we would to look to secure additional funding in six months time when we had some goals under our belt.

MPEN research work
Chris explained that work had begun to fill gaps that had been left by Alan.
Chris to bring confirmation of work and timescales to the next meeting.

Recruitment of new MPEN worker
Chris to bring proposal to next MPEN meeting.

Next meeting: 17^th September 2003 6.30 at SEDI offices

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