On Tuesday, Innovation Exchange was delighted to co-host an event with the Association of Charitable Funders at King’s Place. Conversation focused on how charitable foundations support innovation and the role of innovation brokers like Innovation Exchange. The event was expertly chaired by Julia Unwin, who quite literally wrote the book on the subject.
Here are my [...]

Last night I attended the launch of Freshwell at the House of Commons. Freshwell is the name that East London Food Access, one of our Next Practice Projects, is using to take its knowledge of food co-operatives across the UK, helping communities to build them for themselves. We are excited about this project [...]

New Philanthropy Capital’s new report, Trial and Error, looks at the most innovative work that is currently taking place on the issue of youth offending. It has named the charity Dance United as one of the most the innovative schemes dealing with youth offending in the country.
Dance United are based in Bradford, an area [...]

FutureGov is working with Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government to research the “now wave” and the “next wave” of public service delivery around the world. They need your help.
They are are keen to crowdsource ideas of best practice from around the world for a session in mid-March with leaders from the UK, [...]

My colleagues at Innovation Exchange were understanding of my desire to be out of the office last Wednesday due to baking.  It’s an excuse I’d enjoy using more often (I do love wearing my apron) but on this occasion ideas were in the oven. I was with the folks who run the Urban Ideas Bakery, a British Council initiative [...]