AN award-winning community business that offers training and employment to people with learning difficulties will provide the focus for the first social enterprise conference in the North West at a Ribble Valley hotel tomorrow.
Tomorrow's event at the Mytton Fold Farm Hotel in Langho will be attended by 200 delegates from throughout the world and look at boosting business opportunities for community groups.
It is the first North West Social Enterprise Conference and is being organised by Clitheroe community group Trinity Community Partnership as part of its 40th anniversary celebrations.
Key speakers will include Catherine McLeod, deputy director of social enterprise at the Department of Trade and Industry, and Hilary Brown from the Bank of England.
Steve Miller of the Trinity Community Partnership said: "The event will benefit local people by showing how voluntary and community groups can become profitable businesses, as well as providing support to their communities."
One Trinity project already up and running is the Accrington-based Prosperity Recycling. The scheme trains and employs disabled people in the manufacture of garden furniture from recycled plastic and timber.
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