Perrie has asked me to guest blog on the Innovation Exchange site. Me is Sarah Alderson, Head of Projects at TimeBank. We run several mentoring projects and have been working with the Innovation Exchange to get support for this one Back to Life
How to get your project commissioned: part I
In an ideal world [...]

Earlier this year, Innovation Exchange set up mentoring relationships between two third sector innovators from our Next Practice programme and two creative-thinking commissioners of public services. Our aim was to support professional learning between two sectors that could work more powerfully together for public good.
In our work with the Exchange, leaders of thrid sector projects [...]

Great news! This is a call to action for all nurses and midwives. A search is on for the top 10 high impact actions for nursing and midwifery.
We are all well aware that the NHS faces a considerable financial challenge over the next few years and that the most effective way to respond to these [...]

We are looking to appoint an external evaluator to work with us until March 2010 on a short, sharp evaluation of our programme. Innovation Exchange believes that without robust and honest innovation brokerage a) good ideas from the third sector will continue to have limited impact and, b) people with money to fund an innovation will [...]

Check out this amazing website. IDEO have created a Human Centered Design Tool kit (HCD) to help organisations understand people’s need in new ways; find innovate solutions to meet these needs; and deliver solution with financial sustaibability in mind. Both the HCD tool kit and guide are free of charge to download.
It even has some [...]