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About Concept Conference Centre

Summary: About RNIB's Concept Conference Centre in central Birmingham.

Concept is a social enterprise based within RNIB which provides competitively priced conferencing and catering facilities in the centre of Birmingham.

Concept's aims

Breakout bar area

  • To provide a welcoming conferencing environment
  • To prepare and serve food sourced from local ingredients and suppliers
  • To have a workforce that is comprised of a minimum of 25% of blind and partially sighted people.

Food and drink

The food provided at Concept is "home cooked" on site and made from locally sourced or specialist ingredients. We only use Fairtrade tea and coffee, organic milk and free range eggs.

Our dishes include sweet potato curry, chicken with asparagus, leek and bacon, salmon bake, fish pie, cake selections, fruit, yoghurts and a special "light bites" menu.

About our staff and trainees

Blind and partially sighted people are less likely to be offered work opportunities, especially in the hospitality and catering industry.

We offer blind and partially sighted people the opportunity to gain experience in the sector via our 50-week Trainee Grade Scheme. Providing training opportunities to people with sight problems is one of the most important roles of Concept.

We also employ a small number of permanent staff in the key areas of management and marketing, catering and finance.

Social enterprise and social firms

Concept is a social firm. Social enterprises and firms are businesses that:

  • Trade for social and/or environmental purposes
  • Reinvest profit back into the business or other related or unrelated activities
  • Ownership and governance structures based on participation and not for personal gain
  • Compete in the market like any other business
    (Source: Social Enterprise West Midlands).

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Content author: concept.conferences@rnib.org.uk

Last updated: 20/11/2008 11:13

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