Skills for Social Entrepreneurs – an entrepreneur’s perspective with Josh Eggleton

Event Objective

To learn how one of the South West’s leading food and drink entrepreneurs manages the balance between profit and purpose, juggling different businesses and the tensions between competing social, environmental and financial aims.

Josh Eggleton is the co-founder of The Pony & Trap in Chew Magna, as well as his other projects Salt and Malt and Root, and a co-owner of Bristol Beer Factory. He starred in the Channel 4 documentary The Restaurant that Makes mistakes, which was staffed by people living with dementia, and a has been a regular on BBC’s Great British Menu.

The event is taking place at Fairfield House. The address is: 2 Kelston Rd, Bath BA1 3QJ, UK and access is via Partis Way with free parking available. Accessible toilets and a lift is available at the venue. Parking is limited so please only drive if you have no other alternative.

Goals

This event is a chance for social entrepreneurs to hear personally from Josh on the real challenges of building and running a new business, and finding your way along the journey to financial, social and environmental sustainability. The goals of the event are to help participants:

• be inspired by a leading entrepreneur from the BANES area
• learn about the entrepreneur’s journey to sustainability
• understand the skills required to manage competing objectives

If you have any accessibility or dietary requirements, please email: contact@3sg.org.uk

Bath and North East Somerset Social Entrepreneurs Programme is led by the School for Social Entrepreneurs (SSE) in partnership with 3SG. It is funded by the UK Government through the UK Community Renewal Fund, which is managed by the West of England Combined Authority within the Bath and North East Somerset region.