Research Assistant, Hannah Rich. caught up with Marie from SoCentral, in Oslo, to talk about the SIC experimentation process.
Find out moreCo-defining local challenges and solutions with SoCentral
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Ideas, as well as people, now move more freely. We have put new models, drawn from other classes and other parts of the world, before the local people, creating new aspirations and new ideas.Michael Young and Peter Willmott.
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Communities Can: how peer learning could help smaller community groups
Ken Pickering, Outreach Worker for Communities Can in Torbay, and Tatevik Sargsyan, project lead, consider the potential for improving support for smaller community organisations.
Find out more5 more small community groups supported by the Communities Can pilot programme
The Communities Can project has supported 378 small and diverse community groups through matching them to a range of experienced local providers. This is the second of two parts, in which we are showcasing some highlights and testimonials from a range of groups who received different types of support through the programme.
Find out moreCo-creation workshops across 5 cities
Social innovation can be understood as innovative ideas which simultaneously are good for society and enhance society’s capacity to act. Through the experimentation work package of SIC, we are working with local partners, using the tools and methods of social innovation to co-create solutions to collectively defined local issues and challenges. We recruited 5 diverse... Find out more
4 small community groups supported by the Communities Can pilot programme
The Communities Can project has supported 378 small and diverse community groups through matching them to a range of experienced local providers. In two parts, we showcase some highlights and testimonials from a range of groups who received different types of support through the programme.
Find out moreHow can social innovation help rural communities?
Research Assistant, Hannah Rich, explores how social innovation can be transformative for rural areas.
Find out moreHow to ‘institutionalise human greatness’
Ed Mayo, Secretary General of Co-operatives UK blogs about Humanity at Work, our latest research report, on MONDRAGON Corporation, the world’s largest industrial cooperative association.
Find out more‘Humanity at Work’: implications and policy outcomes
The Young Foundation, in partnership with Co-operatives UK, have created a joint set of key learnings that government and civil society can take from this model for the UK and beyond. We will be utilizing these proposals to influence the debate going forward on how to develop truly inclusive societies.
Find out moreThe value of support for community organisations
James Noble, Deputy Head of Measurement and Evaluation at NPC and co-author of the Communities Can final evaluation report, reflects on some of the key challenges the programme had to overcome.
Find out moreInnovating for innovation: The rise of the regulatory sandbox
In many fields regulation is there to keep us safe and encourage ethical practice but where high barriers to entry exist this frequently leads to limited market choices and poorer access to services. In order to deal with this issue regulators are increasingly experimenting with new approaches, including the development of regulatory sandboxes. What is... Find out more