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update Spring ‘24
Co-ops’ Capacity for Resilience, Sustainability and Growth on Show at SAOS Conference ‘24 The SAOS conference in January was, as ever, a pretty inspiring place to be. We had a fantastic line up of speakers and we were treated to some fascinating insights, making sure there was plenty to think about long after the day was over. Key to our plans for this year was ensuring that our co-op members featured strongly and we were proud to share just a few of their endeavours and achievements within our sessions focused on Resilience, Sustainability and Growth.
Day delegates - 157 Dinner guests - 112 61 Slido Questions* 76% participation in Slido 3 themed sessions 8 Speakers 2 Co-op Member showcases 1 Machinery Rings video showcase 1 ERB Award Presentation 1 ‘25-years service’ presentation** 3 ‘pizza box’ presentations*** £2841 raised for RSABI Huge thanks to 2 invaluable sponsors 1 ‘Tonne’ of new ideas
Thanks to everyone who gave feedback on the day, this was overwhelmingly positive, and we’ve taken on board the comments in the areas that we know can be improved on. We’re well aware that we couldn’t keep up with many of the *61 questions on Slido, so we posed some more of these to our speaker Nicolai Hansen after the conference (see pages 2&3 overleaf). We’re already working on plans for 2025 and hope you’ll join us on Thursday the 16th of January 2025, when we will be at Crieff Hydro - please save the date and note the venue change! Our ‘summary’ above also includes our presentations to our long-serving staff, **Hamish Walls has been with SAOS for 25 years, congratulations to him. And regarding *** there was a bit of speculation around the contents of the boxes that were presented to Alan Stevenson, Jim Booth and Bob Yuill (who are all stepping back a bit to part time roles, with Bob also moving over to our Smart Rural business). The ‘pizza boxes’ all contained a newspaper from the day that they joined SAOS (the second time for Bob!!) If you missed the conference, or if you want a recap, you can catch up on much of the day on our website at: https://saos.coop/whats-new/news/did-you-miss-the-saos-conference-2024-catch-up-here