£14m fund has huge opportunities for co-production approaches

[Lucie Stephens]

The Centre for Social Action Innovation Fund is a £14m fund run by Nesta, the UK's Innovation Foundation, working in partnership with the Cabinet Office.

They will provide financial and non-financial support to help grow the impact and reach of innovations that mobilise people's energy and talents to help each other, working alongside public services.

Current Priorities

They are currently looking for innovative ventures and programmes that use social action to achieve impact in four fields:

• Helping people to age well, particularly by supporting people over 50 to have a purpose, a sense of well-being and to be connected to others
• Enabling people with long-term health conditions to have a better quality of life, particularly through the use of peer to peer networks and groups
• Supporting and encouraging young people to succeed and find employment, for example through mentoring, coaching, and peer-to-peer networks
• Using new approaches to "impact volunteering" to mobilise volunteers to increase and enhance the outcomes achieved by public services

Closing date is 31st October. Find more information, forms etc. here

Good Luck!