Move over V, Reading and Glastonbury. We are getting ready for our first Festival of Ideas of the autumn, focused on better mental health. If the mark of a good party is that you simultaneously worry too many and too few people will come, I’d say we’re right on track. And it seems that Raj [...]

The deadline for our Call for Ideas in relation to our Better Mental Health event has been extended to Thursday, 20th August at 12.00pm.
If you’re working around mental health and based in the North West then we want to hear from you. This could be just the opportunity you need to take your work [...]

Some of you will be aware of the launch of New Zealand’s new Centre for Social Innovation, headed up by Justine Munro.  In a mission that sounds much like the stuff of our days, they are working to bring together public, private and community partners to create new solutions to pressing social problems. John Craig from Innovation Exchange met with [...]

Our very own Raj Cheema made a stunning radio debut yesterday on Halton Community Radio publicising our upcoming Festival of Ideas on Better Mental Health (to be held in Manchester on 4 September with the North-West Joint Improvement Partnership). In her interview with Matthew Roberts about the Exchange’s work, Raj issued a rousing call to action [...]

Innovation Exchange was in Bath and Bristol yesterday with Clean Slate Training and Employment, one of our Next Practice projects. 
We attended a workshop on meeting the challenges of worklessness hosted by Clean Slate’s energetic director/founder Jeff Mitchell and Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES) council. The workshop brought together key stakeholders for the launch of and [...]