By Geraldine Blake
We’ve been overwhelmed by the very positive response from participants who attended Chain Reaction. The Chain Reaction event brought together social leaders, community activists, policy makers, business leaders, and young people from around the globe to share learning and to generate new ideas for social change, locally, nationally and globally
You can find links to all the films, blogs, pictures, tweets and discussions on the Chain Reaction website and blog.
There are many reasons to be positive about what happened – over 1000 people, from 16 countries, at least 200 aged under 21, community organisations from up and down the country and beyond (including Oxfam, Child Poverty Action Group and Family Housing Birmingham) and artists from Brazil, the Philippines, Croatia, Canada, Iceland and Kenya, Social Entreprenuers, bloggers and techies with new tools to try out, business leaders (among others, CEOs from Royal Mail, IBM, CBI, BITC, Accenture) and a roll call of Ministers – including a 45 minute visit from the PM, who made Chain Reaction his next stop after the Economic Summit in Washington.
All this, PLUS the launch of Global Entrepreneurship Week, and then concluding with a celebration of inspiring people and projects with the Beacon Fellowship Awards.
David Robinson co-founder of Community Links and vice chair of the Council on Social Action speaking at the end of the event shared his immediate reflections with Social Reporter David Wilcox.
It’s just the beginning. Success for Chain Reaction must be judged against a bigger vision – not just the people we met and the plans we made together but by what we do together in the weeks and months ahead.
We’ll be working hard to continue supporting people to connect, collaborate and commit and hope that you will continue to work with us.
