Meeting of The Wheel’s Social Enterprise Network
Meeting of The Wheel’s Social Enterprise Network
Do you strive to achieve a social, societal or environmental impact through offering goods or services on a nonprofit basis? Join us on 5 March for our Social Enterprise Member Network session with a focus on social public procurement.
We're looking forward to welcoming you along to our online Social Enterprise Member Network session, on Wednesday, 5 March. We’ll have a special focus on learning more about socially responsible public procurement and whether it could be a fit for your organisation.
These network meetings help us to build a ‘bottom-up’ approach to our work in social enterprise and give our community of members the opportunity to build relationships among like-minded organisations, shape our policy work and let us know what supports you need.
This is a free event but spaces are limited so don’t miss out.
- You can book places for yourself and/or colleagues by clicking the button below.
- This event will take place on Zoom.
- Closed Captions can be enabled by participants.
- Please email matthew@wheel.ie if you have any special requirements.
Meet Your Speakers:
Johnny Sheehan is The Wheel’s Member Engagement Manager. He works to ensure all our members are supported to work more effectively at a local, regional and national level. Johnny supports the public policy team to represent our members’, and the wider sector’s, shared interests. He has more than 25 years’ experience working in the development, youth work and environmental sectors and have served as a trustee on a number of charity boards. Johnny has a Law Society certificate in Charity Law, Trusteeship and Governance
Emma Murtagh is Director of Development and Member Services for The Wheel. She is in charge of delivering The Wheel’s funding strategy. This includes identifying new areas for growth and opportunities, overseeing funding applications, and working with our partners and stakeholders. She also supports the teams that deliver our many member services – including our Skills, EU, and Shared Island Programmes – to identify opportunities and maximise their value to our members. Emma is a qualified trainer with a BA in English and Psychological Studies and an MA in Literature and Publishing, both from the University of Galway.
Paul O'Sullivan has been providing strategic advice to leaders of charities and social enterprises since he retired as Chief Executive of Clann Credo - Community Loan Finance. At Clann Credo, Ireland’s leading provider of social finance, he led the investment of more than €150 million in hundreds of social enterprises, community organisations and charities throughout Ireland. Paul served on the European Commission’s Expert Group on the Social Enterprise for eight years. In 2009, he was instrumental in establishing the Social Enterprise Task Force to promote social enterprise in Ireland. He is currently a director of Waterford Area Partnership and chairs its Finance sub committee.
Fergal Grogan has worked in the National Public Procurement Policy Unit in the Office of Government Procurement since 2019. The unit is tasked with delivering public procurement policy that supports Government priorities and societal needs. Fergal’s work focuses on promoting the participation of SMEs in public procurement, sustainable public procurement, which includes socially responsible public procurement, and innovation procurement. Fergal oversaw the development of initiatives to assist SMEs in Public Procurement and is currently working on a new GPP circular to promote the use of Environmental and Social Considerations in Public Procurement. Fergal is also responsible for the development of a first National Public Procurement Strategy.