The Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) would like to invite you to the annual John Pearce Memorial Lecture which takes place online via Zoom on Monday 16th November 2020. The lecture sponsored by the Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health will host Ed Mayo, Chief Executive of Pilotlight. The title for this year's lecture is: "The Power of Dreams: community economic development after the virus". Ed will reflect on the changing dynamics of community economic development that he’s witnessed throughout his career and its potential to support communities in the wake of COVID.

Programme

3.30pm

Registration

3.45pm

Welcome: Professor Pamela Gillies CBE FRSE Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Glasgow Caledonian University

Introduction: Professor Cam Donaldson Pro Vice-Chancellor, Vice-Principal (Research) and Yunus Chair, Glasgow Caledonian University

4.00pm

John Pearce Memorial Lecture

Ed Mayo, Chief Executive of Pilotlight

“ The Power of Dreams: community economic development after the virus”. Ed will reflect on the changing dynamics of community economic development that he’s witnessed throughout his career and its potential to support communities in the wake of COVID

4.45pm

Q&A

5.00pm

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John Pearce (1942 – 2011)

John Pearce, who died from cancer aged just 69, was a major and influential force in community development and in particular was a pioneer in community enterprise - the precursor to social enterprise. For nearly fifty years, John‘s ideas, inspiration and talent for clear thinking were a driving force behind people-centred development and especially around the principles and practice of collective and community enterprise. He wrote extensively throughout his working life with an insight well-illustrated in his seminal work: Social Enterprise in Anytown (2003). He was a thinker who managed to turn theories into practice and directly helped the development of communities in Scotland, the UK and wider afield.

Ed Mayo, Chief Executive of Pilotlight

Ed joined Pilotlight in 2020 after a distinguished track record of non-profit leadership in civil society, including as CEO of Co-operatives UK, New Economics Foundation and National Consumer Council and as Chair of the Jubilee 2000 coalition and Involve, the democratic participation charity. Ed has been recognised for his leadership in the field by the World Economic Forum and has been awarded an honorary degree by London Met University for services to ethical markets. He has written widely on values, the economy and society (as well as two short stories of fiction). His book ‘Values: how to bring values to life in your business’ is published by Routledge.

Join us: Online via Zoom

Further information: margaret.munro@gcu.ac.uk

Website: https://www.gcu.ac.uk/yunuscentre/