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 [...]

The North East IEP yesterday launched their Provider Development Innovation Fund at our Festival of Ideas in Sunderland. The fund is to support collaborative work to develop new services that can help to personalise social care. Click here to see Julie Brown talking about the fund and hear her tips on what a great application [...]

We had a fantastic day at the Festival of Ideas in Sunderland yesterday. Below you can find all the presentations from the day. And you can find more background on this event here.

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Our next Festival of Ideas is in Sunderland looking at innovations that can help to personalise adult social care. We have surveyed commissioners about the challenges that they face and sourced innovative proposals from the third sector – all that remains now is to bring them together. In advance of the event, take [...]

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 [...]