The Young Foundation's Future Communities team ran two workshops in Malmö, Sweden, on the theme of "Hands on social innovation: tools for tackling urban deprivation".

The workshops brought together city officials from Malmö and neighbouring Copenhagen, area programme staff, academics, NGOs and representatives from the Malmö's Commission, to think about how to support local social innovation and develop practical initiatives drawing on lessons from Europe, the US and Australia.

The workshops are part of a broader social innovation programme for Malmö, which is focused on a socially sustainable future for the city. Area Programmes tackling entrenched social problems in the city's most deprived urban neighbourhoods - Herrgåarden, Holma-Kroksback, Lindängen and Seved - represent an important part of Malmö's social innovation strategy.

Download the main presentation from the workshops.

For further information about the case studies used in the workshop please see:

• Transformers: How local areas innovate to address changing social needs (January 2008)

• Charlie Leadbeater's presentation "Reframing Social Innovation" at the Global Innovation Academy
  

• Wiltshire Building resilient communities programme
  

• The End of Regeneration? Improving what matters on small housing estates (April 2010)

• Family by Family

• Maslaha

• UpRising

• Studio Schools

Useful resources for social innovators:

• The Open Book of Social Innovation (March 2010)

• SIX - The Social Innovation eXchange