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Thursday, July 24, 2008 from 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (GMT+0100)
This event focuses on the work of Innovation Exchange, which supports innovation in the third sector. The conversation will focus on ensuring that the views of citizens, service-users and those who represent and support them help to shape the work of the Exchange, both now and in the future.
The third sector is teeming with great ideas, but too few of them change the world. Innovators, investors and commissioners often lack each other’s phone numbers and the capacity and incentive to collaborate. As a result, innovations get a start, but struggle for the connections and resources to sustain or scale. Innovation Exchange exists to tackle this problem, bringing people together to grow third sector innovations.
The Innovation Exchange works as an honest broker,
Our pitch to the third sector is simple; don’t give your idea away, but don’t keep it to yourself.
To learn more about Innovation Exchange, please click here.
One of Innovation Exchange’s areas of focus is independent living, an area which you know well. At our recent Festival of Ideas, innovators from the third sector - including some service users - commissioners and social investors came together to connect around opportunities for innovation and to begin to collaborate to realise their potential. We are now about to advertise for expressions of interest for participation a Next Practice programme, which will offer support to some of the very best innovators in the third sector, which we hope will include service users and user-led organisations.
It is important that the views of citizens, service-users and those who represent and support them help to shape both the strategy of Innovation Exchange and its decisions about which innovations to support. That’s the right thing to do – people have a right to be heard about issues that effect them – and it’s a smart thing to do – users are in an excellent position to spot promising innovations and to suggest improvements. I would be delighted if you were able to participate in this conversation, both as part of this process of engagement and to help us to ensure more generally that we get this engagement right in the future.
In particular, the conversation will focus on discussions of:
Click here for directions to the event. If you have any questions or queries, please email Raj Cheema.
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