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 [...]

 
Innovation Exchange celebrated the first anniversary of its Next Practice programme in London last Wednesday. 13 of our Next Practice projects came from far and wide – with big shouts of gratitude to our friends from Liverpool, Huddersfield, Bristol and beyond - to share stories of their development and future ambitions. Projects were joined by a great collection of guests, including Innovation Exchange stakeholders, senior policy leads from DCSF [...]

We had a fantastic time at our Festival of Ideas in Manchester on Friday, which looked at Better Mental Health.   Many thanks to all those who attended for making it such an enjoyable and productive day.
Here is Richard Jones, Chair of the North West JIP, our partner at the event along with the Mental Health [...]

Toynbee Hall and UK Evaluation Service London are hosting a workshop on evaluation in the third sector on the afternoon of 8 October 2009 in London. The event is open to anyone, but evaluation practitioners, third sector organisations and their funders are particularly encouraged to attend. Participants will share their knowledge of existing evaluation practices in the [...]

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 [...]