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Just wanted to share my pink excitement about our upcoming All in this Together event: Co-producing Resilient Communities...we now have 172 delegates, the great, the good, the fragrant and the unexpected, from all sectors and levels. We are hoping to video the presentations - if we manage to do that we'll post them up on the Network resource section. A few tickets still remain if you want to join in the delights...booking via…

The next meeting of the London Network is fast approaching and has been coordinated by Nicola Kingston, whom many of you met at the last meeting.

This one will be on the 2nd October, 10am-12.30, at the Irish Culture Centre near Hammersmith underground station, W6 9DT.

Please go ahead and book your place at …

I've been meaning to post this manifesto on the blog for quite a while, and here it finally is! The exerpt below is from Ruth Marsden, who was standing for the role of National Director of Patient Insight with the NHS Commissioning Board. I've included her full manifesto, which I think it a helpful reminder of what the difference between tokenistic engagement and genuine co-production is.

Manifesto for the post of National Director of Patient Insight with the NHS…

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…

You might be interested in this forthcoming Community Catalysts event...............

Innovate, Stimulate, Activate

Exploring partnerships and supporting new enterprise to flourish



Middlesbrough Wednesday 19th September 12.30-4.15



Everybody has skills, talents and aspirations and older people and people with an illness or disability are no different. Many older and disabled people use social care services…

Have just produced this What? Why? Who? co-pro poster (with help from designer Liz Price) for an Assets on Health Symposium taking place in Wrexham tomorrow. I have put it on the Co-production Resource blog as a downloadable pdf in case anyone wants to have a copy.…

All in this Together 3: co-pro and communities

Wednesday 26 September, 1.30-4.30, Cardiff City Hall

absolutely unmissable line-up of luminous luminaries including Hazel Stuteley of Connecting Communities, Dawn Davies of Creation Development Trust (the UK's largest timebank), Nick Andrews talking about co-producing communities in dementia care homes, plus one…

In the world of policy and research, the case study is one of the key ways in which we communicate new ideas, and innovative projects. But when it comes to other organisations learning from these innovations, there’s nothing quite like visiting the projects and meeting the people involved, to really get under the skin of it and ask the questions that help to make it relevant to your own work.

So, as part of our work with Nesta and the Innovation Unit’s People Powered Health Programme…

The Social Enterprise Investment Fund (SEIF) aims to support social enterprises deliver innovative health and social care services and products as well as to invest to help social enterprises to become sustainable in the longer term.

The Department of Health’s Social Enterprise Investment Fund (SEIF) is now open till 24 August 2012 and has a further £19 million to invest in health and social care social enterprises, which are delivering exceptional care and driving innovation through…

quite a few new members from a housing background in recent weeks. Which reminded me that there is a interesting group being convened by sitra for DCLG looking at personalisation in housing. Unsurprisingly co-production is a major theme.

To find out more, and make a contribution go here

Also, is there any merit in convening an online network for housing

Hi All, I'm looking for co-pro projects with a focus on the environment/sustainability (to support the Welsh co-pro revolution). Any links or contacts much appreciated! Many thanks. Ruth

Advance notice of three proposed AitT events this autumn - confirmation and details to follow asap.

September: AitT3. Co-pro, communities and the environment (with Welsh Government)…

nef fellow David Boyle has been asked by the government to lead an independent review into barriers to choice in public services. This is fascinating topic, one closely related to the work we’re all doing on co-production.

Davids priority is both to look through the research (and rhetoric) about choice theory or service competition and try to find out what is actually…

You might be interested in this article about co-production developments at scie.

Cheers,

Lucie