Martha Trust is a charity providing residential and respite care for people with profound disabilities. We are looking at creating a new innovative service and this is our entry for the festival of ideas. I look forward to hearing your views!
What is the problem you are working to solve?
Whilst there are a few independent living […]
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When a trustee mentioned that there was a programme being run by the RSA to celebrate and support social innovation and did we think it would be worth submitting an application for our new project to support carers in employment, we had no idea of the journey we were embarking on. We duly put together a proposal outlining our project […]
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A Dragon’s Den style event in London chose my project – Dedicated Care, as an innovation champion, along with 4 other entrepreneurial enterprises. There were 9 people all vying for funding, but the experience of working on our projects in the same room at SCIE headquarters gave a kind of bonhomie spirit between us. Anne […]
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Tuesday was the final of Meet the Dragons, of which the Innovation Exchange has been proud to be one of the sponsors. Of the five fantastic finalists, four came from the third sector. It was fantastic to meet them and see them in action; I think we might really be on to something […]
As you already know, last month, we commissioned some independent research into opportunities for innovation in the two fields. We have been interviewing practitioners, commissioners and investors working in the area of independent living. We want you to contribute to this research before the final version of the research is published. Below are some of […]
We’re not the only ones thinking about innovation in social care. Meet the Dragons is an RSA project to find great new ideas in social care. It has received over 140 submissions, and most of them came from third sector organisations. I think that’s a great validation of our focus on independent […]
