NEIW Ideas

Straplines?

"Can I afford to be ethical"

Recession themed, how do we keep investment going for the longer term?

How can we change the world?

Sub line - how can we allocate our money to do the most good?

Would involve TFN style format - 10 mins pitch, 5 mins questions

"A year since the end of the world"

To engage or divest?

What is the best strategy for being active on an issue?

Do we remain in relationship with those we object to, or stand from the outside calling for change?

Topical Themes

Climate Change (Copenhagen)

Recession 1 year on

Transparency & Trust (politics)

Creative / audience engagement

Debate

Ethical Dragon's den

Allocate fictional £100m?

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This is the main idea that emerged from our brief brainstorm. If we take the TFN model, have 10 minute pitches, 5 minute questions, then break for mingling and voting, with the speakers standing behind their 'stalls', which have a receptical for the counters representing cash, we can easily see the results.E.g. we have a set of tubes, gold coins as £100k , everyone gets £500k to allocate between the different approaches. Hopefully this will avoid the problme of the 'wrong' winner emerging (e.g. if we had a debate, the issue would be if the un-ethical viewpoint won. The advantage here is that we come accross as doing all of them - the sum up will be "you've allocated between these competing strategies, as we do on a daily basis, applying expert analysis to complex problmes, the world isn't black and white and we need co-operation and diversification to 'save the world'?

Counters / perspex vases?

allows good mingling time

Vote for your favourite

Elements to include

Fairtrade

Microfinance

Government spending

Charity / development work

Aid

Venture Capital