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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]