It's been a bit like attending your first ever foxtrot class wearing one slipper and one thigh-high platform boot and realising that the music is being supplied by a small child in 3/4 time with a comb and paper. One step forward, two back, a sideways shuffle, fall over. Then change partners and do it again backwards. Repeat for several years.

BUT...progress! Big Lottery have invited us to submit a full bid for a Co-production Network for Wales. Deadline November. Presentation to the…

NEF is running a series of events demonstrating the role that arts and cultural interventions can play in a range of 'service' areas. 

Please check out the links below for more information or contact me directly. Hope to see you there. …

Members of the London Network met at a workshop on Thursday 9^th July to discuss the theory and practice of evidencing the impact of co-production. The session was attended by over thirty people, and consisted of three speakers:

• Formerly of NEF, Juliette Hough is an independent researcher with extensive experience of conducting evaluations in the voluntary and community sector. As a researcher at NEF, she led on the evaluation of Wandsworth Community Empowerment…

This article is taken from a 'Realising the Value' news release. For a direct link to the email follow this link

Following a collaborative process, which included an evidence review from Newcastle University, over 100 online responses and input from relevant academics, representatives from the wider research community and leading practitioners and…

Hi,

Leicestershire County Council is recruiting for a Coproduction Officer, for further details please go to:

http://jobs.eastmidlandssharedservices.org/leicester/leicester/social-care-adult-service-co-production-officer-ac-617/23875.job

We are looking for someone who can work with adult social care, users, carers,…

We would like to invite members of the London co-production practitioners network to NEF’s new offices (10 Salamanca Place, Vauxhall) on Wednesday the 29^th July from 13:00-15:00 to discuss the theory and the practice of evidencing the impact of co-production.

The session will consist of presentations by three speakers (details below) followed by a Q&A and discussion – ending with refreshments, tea and coffee.

The speakers will share their…

A challenge to co-production practioners

The Welsh Tenants www.welshtenants.org.uk are looking for 2 women to present in a plenary discussion The Key Principles and Practices of Co-production to an audience of around 170 delegates. Why 2 women - well this is the first 2 day women only speaker event in support of the Chwarae Teg 50:50 campaign http://www.cteg.org.uk/50:50  The event is a highly…

The New Economics Foundation (NEF) are pleased to announce that we are part of the newly established What Works Centre for Wellbeing.

What Works is a UK government-funded initiative to enable a range of stakeholders to access independent, high quality, accessible evidence syntheses across…

NEF invites you to our new offices 10 Salamanca Place, Vauxhall, London on Thursday the 9^th July from 13:00-15:00 to discuss the theory and the practice of evidencing the impact of coproduction.

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Time Bank Broker

Could you support local communities to develop and share their skills?

Do you believe people are assets?

Passionate about coproduction?

Time banking is a way of restoring a sense of good neighbourliness. It is a rewarding and enjoyable way to bring people together to share their skills and…

City of London, in partnership with Spice, are looking for a Community Development Officer that will support a range of exciting projects led by local communities and drive forward the local Time Credits network development.

Make your mark on history in the East of the City of London and shape an exciting project that will make a real difference in the lives of those that live, work and travel in the area. This is a project like no other that will enable individuals from across…

Through applied research of the highest quality, practical policy advice and action, and policy-focused debate, NEF is transforming the parameters of policy debate and increasingly mainstreaming economic and social policy ideas that put people and the planet first.

While keeping one eye on Westminster, NEF is also building a movement for change with a range of campaigners from across civil society. Unlike most other UK think tanks, it has international outreach: in funding, research,…

NEF (the New Economics Foundation) invites you to our free learning events to explore how groups in the UK can respond most effectively and creatively to austerity – looking at what charities, activists, campaigners, local authorities, housing associations and funders have already done; and what they might do in the future.

We are holding two learning events on the following dates:

Tuesday 19 May 2015, 10.00am – 5.00pm in central London (The…

Many of you will know that our campaigning and networking efforts in Co-production Wales have been self-funding - and the piggy bank is now more-or-less empty.

So Noreen is leaving Co-production Wales to return to her previous vocation of life and business coach, working with people experiencing change, with freelancers and the self-employed, and with ethical leaders.

She has given us a fantastic goodbye present via the…

Hello passionate Co-Pro people!

A celebratory final (for now) Newsletter with a whole pile of reasons to be cheerful - and a couple of reasons to feel peeved (but I expect we'll get over it!) http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=aace0428f6d355ad2e8fd4244&id=367c700dbf#mctoc14

Huge thanks to Noreen who has done such a fab job of creating, collating and editing the Newsletter over the past two years and best wishes…

We are looking for someone with partnership-building, project management and analytical skills to manage a range of projects to support the involvement of people affected by cancer in our service development and influencing activities.

You will play an important role in Macmillan's Inclusion department, building relationships with individuals and organisations to engage with easy to ignore communities. You will collaborate with others to develop and deliver innovative involvement…