Today Innovation Exchange is launching its Green Next Practice programme.  This will extend the work of the Exchange from independent living and excluded young people into the environment and take on the challenge of greening public services.  We are delighted to be working in this area and believe that there are huge opportunities, both for innovators [...]

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 [...]

 
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 [...]

Today, I am presenting along with Dance United, one of our Next Practice Projects, at the Innovators Council.  As well as talking about their work, Andrew Coggins from Dance United will show this film.  I’m really excited as to what the response will be.  Check it out for yourself.

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 [...]