Dave Dawes

Dave Dawes is a nurse and has been a founding member of 4 social enterprises (including Entreprenurses CIC) over the last 8 years. He is the first nurse to be elected to the Council of the Social Enterprise Coalition and the first social entrepreneur to be elected to the Council of the Royal College of Nursing. He has worked with a number of PCTs and advises NHS organisations and start-up entrepreneurs on governance models, raising finance, business planning and developing strategy. In 2003, he co-founded the European Nursing Leadership Foundation with Ali Handscomb, which was one of the UK’s first not-for-profit management consultancies.

He was one of the youngest Chief Executives in the NHS (East Manchester Primary Care Group) and is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences on social entrepreneurship, e-learning and leadership. He has served on a number of boards including Social Enterprise Coalition Council, CHAP, SELNET, European Nursing Leadership Foundation, Brook Advisory Centres, RCN Council, East Manchester PCG and the North West Board of the RCN.