Hello all,

I have a message from Ruth Dineen about her coproduction toolkit;

Dear All

Many thanks to the 71 people who have responded to the Co-production Toolkit Questionnaire. To date, almost 60 of you have offered to contribute, and 21 organisations are willing to run a half-day workshop to begin to map the contents which is fantastic.



It would be great to receive additional responses - I'd like to get to…

A recent report written after a workshop on co-production w / the NHS Alliance

http://www.nhsalliance.org/fileadmin/files/pdf/CoProductionReport%20FINAL_01.pdf

Hello every one,

I have a message here from Hugh Dames- do have a look, what he is doing looks great if you are in or around the Kirkdale area!

Hello Co Production Practitioners Network

The Adult Learning Centre in Kirkdale (Sydenham, SE26) closed this year due to funding cuts.  Rather than sit back, The Kirkdale Village Traders Association are working with Hugh Dames of Social Capital Ltd to deliver the Kirkdale…

ABOUT TIME: Examining the case for a shorter working week

 LSE Public Lecture & drinks reception

11 January 2012, 6.00-7.30 pm, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 2AE

and

Expert Colloquium (invitation-only)

12 January, 9.30 am - 3.30 pm

Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins…

Hi there,

NESTA have published the shortlist of organisations who have successfully got through the first round of their innovations in giving funding. You'll see some familiar faces on the list. There are short (3 min) videos about each of the ideas which you might find illuminating or inspiring.

Also on the NESTA site is the…

Hello everyone,

I thought some of you might be interested in this event being hosted by nef on the need for a local banking system

Hello all!

For all of those based in and around London, you may be interested to know that there is an upcoming practitioners meeting planned for November the 30th between 10-12.

George Garrad of Look Ahead Housing has kindly offered to host this event at the Aldgate Hostel. For more information and to sign up for a place click…

Hello everyone,

this is a message posted on behalf of Ruth Dineen

Your help needed to co-produce a Co-production Toolkit!

I recently received a teaching award which I hope to use to co-produce a Co-production Toolkit, based on inspirational cross-sector case-studies.

You might be using co-production approaches already, or you might not; you might be using the term ‘co-production’ or you might not. Either way, I’d really like to know what…

I just wanted to say thank you to those who got in touch and helped out at our recent co-production event in Lambeth, it seemed to go very well and I have had lots of positive feedback.

I thought I would share the write up of the event which I have pulled together on Storify here http://sfy.co/LSw this has all…

nef is launching an exciting 30 month project which seeks to improve outcomes for young people and their families by improving the way that Services for Young People are designed, commissioned and delivered. Through our work with commissioners in Surrey, Camden and Kirklees, nef has developed the theory and application of both co-production and commissioning for outcomes.

nef has recently secured funding from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation to support two local authorities in the…

I wanted to share with you some information about a participative decision-making method called Crowd Wise, developed by a colleague of mine, Perry Walker (now a nef fellow). I'm sure many of you will know of and use methods like Open Space and …

Hello all!

For all of those based in and around London, you may be interested to know that there is an upcoming practitioners meeting planned for November the 30th between 10-12.

George Garrad of Look Ahead Housing has kindly offered to host this event at the Aldgate Hostel (see below address);

7 Dock Street

London…

Hi

We are looking at Co Production within our services and would really like to come and meet your group and understand more about co production and how you went about driving it forward. Hopefully you may be able to provide us with some training or guide us in the right direction.

Regards Carmel

Lisa Pattoni and I (from IRISS) would like to take this opportunity to invite you to follow a coproduction project we are running at the moment. 'Shaping the Choreography of Care and Support' is bringing together knowledge and experience of older people and carers with organisations from public, private, voluntary and health sectors in Glasgow, and the service design sector, to explore how we can match the future expectations and…

Calling all practitioners

nef is working on writing up a review of the literature on co-production. The aim of the review is to gather and analyse information on the effectiveness of co-production as an approach to delivering public services: specifically looking at where it has been shown to improve outcomes, and impact on the cost effectiveness of services.

The review will cover all sectors and we hope to publish the report by December.

Part of the drive…

The social action fund aims to 'inspire organisations to create new social action opportunities through people giving what they have, be that their time, their money, or their assets, knowledge and skills'. One key area they are looking to support is activity that 'encourages people to come together in their locality to support each other. Some priority will be given to people that don't traditionally get involved as volunteers'. They say they are particularly interested in…

NESTA - with the Office of Civil Society - has announced an open call for ideas to the £10 Million Innovations in Giving Fund. They say they are 'looking for proposals which have the potential to deliver a significant increase in the giving and exchange of time, assets, skills, resources and money'. They intend to 'invest in, support and grow innovative ideas that bring about a step-change in levels of giving and exchange and which have a credible route to becomming…