3rd Sector Futures
Our team
Andy Brady
Andy is a senior lecturer at the Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAIBS), based in Chelmsford. He has considerable experience as a trainer, most notably in the delivery of courses and workshops in business management skills to 3rd sector leaders. In addition to training, Andy is responsible for developing '3rd Sector Futures' as a sustainable part of the LAIBS vision, to be a leading international practice-based business school.
Andy is a board member of Social Enterprise East of England, has a Masters in Community Enterprise from the Judge Business School in Cambridge, and recently won a Vice-Chancellor's Award for his work developing Anglia Ruskin's relationship with community-based organisations.
Tel.: 0845 196 6888
Email: andrew.brady@anglia.ac.uk
John Thompson
John is part-time Professor of Social Entrepreneurship at Anglia Ruskin. Prior to formal retirement he held a full-time Chair in Entrepreneurship in the UK and was a Visiting Professor in Finland, Australia and New Zealand.
He has published widely and written a number of books in both entrepreneurship and strategy. The third edition of his book Entrepreneurs: Talent, Temperament and Opportunity - co-authored with Bill Bolton - is published in May 2013.
His interest in social entrepreneurs developed when he researched and worked with a number of community initiatives and social enterprises in the North of England.
Ashley Cooke
Email: ashley.cooke@anglia.ac.uk
Dr Andrew Stevens
Andrew is our principal researcher and has worked with Anglia Ruskin since 2002.
Andrew wrote a research report for IIC concerning pre-startup support, and conducted research on behalf of Thames Gateway South Essex (TGSE) investigating and activity of the sub-region?s social enterprise sector.
In 2007, Andrew conducted research (and co-ordinated the collection of data with a number of third sector partners, including Chelmsford CVS and other Council for Voluntary Service groups) into social enterprise in Essex. The resulting report includes an analysis of the number and location of social enterprises, the number of permanent staff and volunteers as well as trading activity and the proportion of income earned from delivering public services.
Andrew has also completed two projects for SEEE, looking at Credit Unions and the SEEE website, and carried out a major research project on the impact of the recession on the third sector in Essex. He was the author of the report for Volunteer Centre Chelmsford on their BME project.
Elaine McCorriston
Elaine has recently become a SROI practitioner having completed the SROI training and completed an SROI for Families inFocus Essex. Elaine also worked with Catch 22 to complete an SROI analysis of their resettlement service in Essex.
Elaine can claim to be one the principle architects of the social enterprise (SE) support network in the region, having led a European funded programme to establish the support, from 2001-2005. This complex multinational European funded project established much of the social enterprise infrastructure in the East of England, including SEEE.
During the programme Elaine managed key relationships and designed consultation with stakeholders, and established a network of contacts in the SE sector across the region. She has served a s a director of SEEE, run a network for social enterprises in Hertfordshire, and experienced social enterprise in Portugal and Italy as well as the UK.
Elaine is a graduate of Coventry University, has a post graduate diploma in town planning, and has had formal training in business advice for social enterprises, as well as attending many national and regional conferences and workshops on social enterprise. For 30 months she has been self employed and works with Anglia Ruskin on a freelance basis, notably on projects commissioned by SEEE such as looking at Corporate sponsorship and mapping the business support available to the social enterprise sector and most recently on the Volunteering and Employability research and toolkit. She has also conducted research for Social Enterprise London which involved working with the voluntary sector in across the East.