Schedule and speakers

 

10.15Registration and refreshments
Meet your fellow members
10.30Building societies for beginners
Optional session introducing the building society model and the workings of an AGM
11.00Annual General Meeting including Ask the Directors
12.30Lunch
13.30Footprints in the ground – Innovation for positive change
Panel discussion on the latest innovations in sustainable building and retrofit

Daniel Capstick - Ecology Product Manager, Mortgages, Ecology Building Society
Marianne Heaslip - Co-founder and Technical Director, People Powered Retrofit
Lynn Sullivan OBE - Chair of the Good Homes Alliance and Interim National Retrofit Hub
14.15Footprints on the ground – Sustainable lending in practice
Hear from Ecology borrowers who are building a greener future

Ele George - Former Ecology self-build borrower and sustainable construction specialist
Chris Pyke - Founding member of Five Rivers Cohousing
Gisela Renolds - Executive Director, Global link (Lancaster) Ltd

15.00Break
15.15Our future footprints – Agitating for positive change
Hear from leading change-makers on how they are influencing policy and behaviours

Colin Baines - Shareholder activist and ethical campaigner
Sara Edmonds - Director of Studio seARCH and Co-ordinator at Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN)
Rob Harrison - Editor, Ethical Consumer
16.00Closing comments
Gareth Griffiths - Chief Executive, Ecology Building Society
16.15Close