Southern section

The Southern Area includes Cheshire, parts of Manchester and Merseyside – south of the River Mersey.

Executive Members

• Chair: Shaer Halewood, shaerhalewood@hotmail.com
• Treasurer: Liga Babikir, L.Babikir@wigan.gov.uk
• Secretary: Nicholas Atlay, Nicholas.Atlay@hsa.gsi.gov.uk

Other members:

• Jeremy Valentine, j.valentine69@btinternet.com
• Ian Coleman, ianedwardc@gmail.com
• Chris Pyke, c.pyke3@gmail.com
• Stuart Swift, stuarts@warrington.gov.uk

Seminar: The path to financial self-sufficiency through commercialisation, 8 September 2017

Speakers' presentations

• Download Shaer Halewood, Oldham Council - Introduction to Commercialisation (PPT, 278 KB)
• Download Mike Nuttall, Local Service Partners- The Guild Hall, Preston (PPT, 1.6 MB)
• Download Donna Hall and Sarah Palmer, Wigan Council- The Deal Conference (PPT, 5.3 MB)
• Download Tim Povall, Liverpool City Council- Mayoral Investment Strategy (PPT, 8.41 MB)
• Download Rebecca Huddleston, Chorley Council- Town Centre Development (PPT, 27.9 MB)
• Download Ian McGrady, Edsential Community Development Interest Company- Delivering Differently, a case study from education services (PDF, 1.31 MB)

Seminar: Long Migration to Growth, 11 April 2014

Speakers' presentations

• Download AGE UK Impact of Austerity on the Voluntary Sector, by Suzzanne Hilton (PPT, 3 MB)
• Download Charity Accounting, Opportunities, by John Maddocks (PPT, 328 KB)
• Chester Zoo video

Seminar: Sense and Sustainability, 5 December 2013 

Speakers' presentations

• Download New Operating Models, by John Newton and Tim Smith (PPT, 566 KB)
• Download Service Delivery Models, by Mike Suarez, Cheshire East Council (PPT, 4.98 MB)
• Download Alternative Service Delivery Models and Social Enterprises, by Lee Helms, PWC (PPT, 890 KB)

Seminar: Generating savings and sustaining services through innovative thinking, 28 June 2013 

Speakers' presentations

• Download Warrington Borough Council strategic context, by Lynton Green (PPT, 170 KB)
• Download case studies and schemes being undertaken, by Dave Cowley and Danny Mather (PPT, 1.99 MB)
• Download principles of the capital and accounting treatment of loans to RSLs, by Cecilie Booth, Sector (PDF, 846 KB)
• Download financing capital expenditure by accessing the bond market, by Edward Simons, RBS (PDF, 806 KB)