Manufacturing as a vehicle to drive positive societal change

There are few sectors in the UK that can argue their case more strongly for the breath of socio-economic benefits their provide to the their communities than manufacturing. A buoyant manufacturing sector helps upskill workers, creates rewarding jobs, can support the ‘levelling up’ agenda and helps build our national capability to deal with future crises. So how does manufacturing become the beating heart of our local communities again and how does government work with the sector to help enable, grow and then celebrate new UK based manufacturing success stories? Led by Lord Victor Adebowale CBE, the non-Executive Director of the Co-Operative Group, Collaborate CIC and the Chair of Social Enterprise UK, our experts will debate these questions and showcase a vision for how a successful manufacturing sector can create many socially responsible and inclusive benefits for communities across the UK.

Lord Adebowale CBE

Chair, Social Enterprise UK

Lord Victor Adebowale was awarded a CBE for services to the unemployed and homeless people, and became a crossbench peer in 2001. He is a non-Executive Director of the Co-Operative Group, Collaborate CIC, Nuffield Health, Visionable and Leadership in Mind. He is also Chair of Social Enterprise UK and the NHS Confederation and was also previously the CEO of Turning Point, a social enterprise providing health and social care interventions to approximately 100,000 people on an annual basis. Lord Adebowale also served for 6 years as a Non-Executive Director on the board of NHS England and has chaired a number of commission reports into: policing; employment; mental health; housing and fairness for The London Fairness Commission; the Metropolitan Police; and for central and local government.

Lord Adebowale is a visiting Professor and Chancellor at the University of Lincoln; an honorary member of the Institute of Psychiatry; President of The International Association of Philosophy and Psychiatry and a Governor at The London School of Economics.

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Manufacturing as a vehicle to drive positive societal change

Lord Adebowale CBE

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National Manufacutring Summit, Feburary 8th - 9th 2022

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