Growing Places Conference 2025
On 12 June 2025, over 100 third sector professionals and academics gathered on ARU’s Cambridge campus for a day of presentations, workshops and networking. The Growing Places conference, co-hosted with Social Enterprise East of England, was the biggest third sector event of the year in the East of England region.
For a taste of how the event unfolded, you can download the keynote presenters’ slides as PDFs below.
- Sini Rinne-Kerridge: The Road Ahead: Navigating Change and Ensuring Growth Works for Charities and Communities
- Deb Lee: The wonderful potential of social enterprise: Business for prosperity
- Mark Freeman: Why a Thriving Local Voluntary Sector Is Important to Everyone and how we need to work together to make it happen
- Chris Land: Futures of Work in the Age of AI
- Zoe Amar: Adopting AI to Transform your Organisation