VOICE10: They Said You Said

'I'd do something about the number of people we send to prison. Locking people up doesn't work, we know that, but we don't do anything about it'

Liz Cross, MD of The Connectives, answering a Voice10 Question Time question about a policy they think should be removed by government. For the policy that should remain, she said: 'The Future Jobs Fund is probably the least bureaucratic fund I have ever come across.'

'I worry about social impact reports becoming erroneous for smaller organisations'

Karen Lowthrop of Hill Holt Wood raises her concerns following a question about SROI from the audience during Voice10 Question Time

'The real picture for [social enterprise] is not a sub-sector of the business world...the real future is all business becomes social enterprise'

Director of ResPublica the 'Red Tory' Phillip Blond

'As with the example of Mondragon [co-operatives] are not just about manic minisculism - these are organisations with ambition'

Secretary general of Co-operatives UK Ed Mayo

'Being cooperative is infectious, I smile, you smile, I help you, you help me. Cooperative thinking is at the heart of social enterprise and I hope we can join in being inspired and be cooperative'

Ed Mayo talking about the first ever co-operative fortnight to be held this year from 19 June to 3 July

'There is ennui setting in where people just want to put their hands over their ears and say "make things as it was"'

Ed Mayo raising an issue of concern for the sector

'It was a huge leap and not an easy one to operate as a private sector business - old habits die hard'

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'We do have a huge history in the NHS of making decisions based on myth and rumour'

Jo Pritchard, Central Surrey Health managing director, talking about why their organisation has been analysing its processes and involving all staff in trying to come up with new projects since May last year

'We work in areas where people are being surveyed to death but not listened to'

Richard Kramer talking about why Turning Point has set up local health social enterprises

'There's one London borough that uses the word client as a verb, to client'

June O'Sullivan of London Early Years Foundation talking about the need for commissioners to use simple terminology that makes sense in a breakout session about public service delivery

'We took the council to court seven times last year for dereliction of duty in providing housing, now the council has moved their homelessness team in with us because it's easier than falling out with us'

Minister for the third sector, Angela Smith, on the launch of the Social Enterprise Mark

'The public weren't prepared to give homeless people the opportunity to begin their own social transformation; only alms'

Big Issue founder John Bird emphasises that a hand up not a hand out is best

'There are 62,000 social enterprises contributing £24bn to the UK economy. They are resilient in the face of recession, keeping wealth within communities'

Minister for the third sector, Angela Smith

'Our mission is not to earn revenue, although of course we have to have profits in order to create wealth in society'

Mikel Lezamiz, director of cooperative dissemination, Mondragon Corporacion Cooperativa, which employs more than 100,000 workers in 120 cooperatives across the world

'Social enterprise is not limited by size, Welsh Water is a very, very large enterprise'

Welsh Water managing director Nigel Annett who said his company's status as a social enterprise was seen as an advantage in the utility market

'We have been doing this long before the recession and we'll be doing it long after, but we need to ensure social enterprise is supported to get the growth we need'

SEC chair Claire Dove during her opening address at Voice10

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