1. Heart of the City 2017 Member Event
‘Social & Business interests align: creating the right responsible business strategy for your organisation
10th February 2017
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2. Welcome & Introduction
Louise Smith
Linklaters LLP
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3. Making the most of your membership
Vicky Mirfin
Director, Heart of the City
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4. Warm up…!
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5. Why is it important that you are here?
27% of Londoners live in poverty after housing costs are taken into account, compared with 20% in the rest of England.
The number of people in a working family living in poverty has increased from 700,000 to 1.2 million in the last decade, an increase of 70%.
The number of people sleeping rough in London has doubled in the last four years.
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6. How will Heart of the City support you?
Now to help you make the most of all that is on offer through your membership we will take you through the benefits in detail and explain how you can access the support you need quickly and easily. Depending on the type of membership you have opted for you will have different levels of access to these services. As a Comprehensive member you will have access to absolutely everything we offer. Standard membership is designed for businesses who do not wish to attend events or network with others so as a Standard member you have access to everything we offer online through our members area. If you have just joined our Newcomers programme you will have access to almost everything the Comprehensive members access although there are some more advanced seminars reserved for our Comprehensive members only.

7. How will Heart of the City support you? - A Personal Guide
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8. Workshops, webinars and networking events

9. Venue: Baker & McKenzie Celebrating your success!
January 2017
Getting Started
Jump start the new year with our newsletter, join our HOTC Linkedin member network group and delve into the member area of our website to discover the wealth of online tools and resources at your fingertips!
10th February 2017
Venue: Linklaters LLP
Social and Business interests align: creating the right responsible business strategy for your organisation
Speakers: Jo Goddard (Green & Good ) & Vicky Mirfin (Heart of the City)
23rd March 2017
Venue: Baker & McKenzie
Part 1: Supporting the Communities we live and work in – creating a community programme (Emma Cooke – Herbert Smith)
Part 2: Delivering on Sustainability Goals – focus on the Environment (Sam McCarthy – EY)
18th April 2017
Venue: Freshfields
Speed Mentoring event – pair up with a business mentor for your CR journey
Special Interest seminar: Promoting Health & Wellbeing in the workplace (Comprehensive Members only)
May 2017
Webinar
The Value of Diversity: why diversity is good for the bottom line - exploring the benefits of supporting a diverse workforce and why this is important for business
6th June2017
KPMG
Workshop: Hands Up! Recruiting and engaging responsible business champions at work
July 2017
Venue: tbc
Workshop: Data, Information & Insight – Understanding your Impact - developing a measurement framework for CR
Special interest group: The A-Z of Corporate Giving – De-mystifying Payroll Giving and Corporate Foundations
August 2017
Summer break
September 2017
2017 Dragon Awards
Inspire and engage your senior leaders at our black-tie awards dinner at Mansion House as a guest of Heart of the City
October 2017
Special Interest group: Tackling London’s Affordable Housing crisis – what can business do? (Comprehensive Members only)
Webinar: Sustainable Sourcing – responsible procurement & ethical sourcing
November 2017
Special Interest group: Becoming a Living Wage employer (Comprehensive Members only)
December 2017
Celebrating your success!
Join us for our end of year member celebration event, with inspirational speakers, a panel of experts and the opportunity to network with your peers

10. Business to Business Mentoring

11. How will Heart of the City support you? - A Wealth of Resources

12. May be good to point out about leaving ratings and comments/feedback
May be good to point out about leaving ratings and comments/feedback? Most of the tools don’t have a rating or comment at all.

16. How will Heart of the City support you? - Access to Partners

17. Our LinkedIn Network

20. Lord Mayor’s Dragon Awards – Mansion House
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21. Thank You! www.theheartofthecity @HOTC_UK 0207 332 3848
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22. Jo Goddard Green & Good Consulting
‘Social & Business interests align: creating the right responsible strategy for your business’

23. What’s responsible business?
Gauge the audience:
Size of business
New to CR?
New to strategy
Already got a strategy?
Who cares about this in your co?

24. Strategy development
What do you need to do?
Give the strategy context
Talk to your stakeholders
Work out what matters to your organisation
What difference to your want to make/want to be known for
Set targets
Measure these and report outcomes

25. Examples
Aviva
China Light and Power
Wates

26. Why have a responsible business strategy?
Achieve value for all stakeholders – what does this mean?
Reduces risk for the business
Supports a financially stable business
Helps engagement with stakeholders
Powerful force for good

27. Stakeholder engagement
Any good responsible business strategy will involve stakeholder engagement
Internal stakeholders need to understand why and what you’ll do – important to get their buy-in
External stakeholders can help you shape what you include

28. Materiality?
What matters most to YOU
Think about your core business – if you manufacture paper then environmental issues such as bio-diversity will be important
Include what your stakeholders think
Look at frameworks such as the B Corp model to see if they fit your organisation

29. Goal setting
What do you want to be known for?
What do you want to achieve by when?
How will you know that you’ve been successful?
How will you communicate your success?
Will you link it to any frameworks such as the Sustainable Development Goals?

30. RasGas 2013
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31. Neil Farrance – Formation Architects Hugo Davies - LendInvest
Newcomer Spotlight
Neil Farrance – Formation Architects
Hugo Davies - LendInvest
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32. Networking Putting responsible behaviour at the heart of business
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