August 2012 Blog Posts (6)

Just wanted to let everyone know about a number of co-production videos we've recently produced. They include:

1. Jude Wells on Stockport Council's co-design of its Adult Social Care Website (click here)
2. Helen Allen on how Community Catalysts help enterprising people co-produce local solutions (…

Wales now has the largest regional group in the national Co-production Practitioners' Network!



The inaugural meeting of the Wales Co-production Network will take place on Thursday 4th October in Swansea Civic Centre, from 3.30 to 5.30 (Committee Room 2). All comers welcome – members and non-members, from Wales and across the border. Feel free to pass on the invite to…

Hello, i just wanted to let practitoners know about the new Timebank that we have launched here @ LCC.

Its aimed initially at organisations that operate in the social care, health and community sectors as an oportunity for them to share the skills and assets that they posses, to further their own business aims, and the aims of people who access their services.

It's early days but the sign up has been good with over 20 organisations signing up in the first few weeks, with loads of…

How can you measure well-being?

Could I design a well-being questionnaire to evaluate my work?

How would I analyse and make the most of the results?

The Centre for Well-being at the new economics foundation have just released a Guide for Practitioners, answering these questions. It is designed primarily for voluntary…

(n.b. this is a post by Lucie Stephens, put up by me while she is on holiday!)

Towards the end of June I visited ecdp (essex coalition of disabled people) a user led organization based in Chelmsford as part of our work with the People Powered Health Programme. The organization was established in 1995 and 100% of their board members have a self-declared impairment. They have 2,041 members, 134 volunteers and 28 staff. They also play a strong role in directly delivering paid for…