Our next Festival of Ideas is in Cambridge looking at innovations that can help to tackle longer-term worklessness. 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 a look [...]

Innovation Exchange is working hard to prepare for its Festival of Ideas in Cambridge in January looking at innovations to tackle longer-term worklessness.   We are doing our best to scour the third sector for high-potential projects and to get invitations out to the right commissioners, investors and leaders.  Don’t forget, if you have an innovation [...]

 
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 [...]

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 [...]

Lisbon – what a great city!
Innovation Exchange is currently attending the Social Innovation Exchange Summer School in Lisbon – a great celebration of social innovation around the world and also a forum to discuss the current challenges in light of the global economic situation.
The day kicked off with a visit to AEIPS which is an [...]