Next Practice Programme

Innovation Exchange's Next Practice Programme showcases some of this country's most outstanding third sector innovations.

There are 15 innovation projects in the programme, taken from over 200 applicants. Projects were selected through a rigorous process for their potential to develop and grow high-quality social innovation.

Through the Next Practice Programme, Innovation Exchange is working intensively with innovators to develop their work. Some projects are seeking to demonstrate a new innovation and prove a great idea can work in practice. Others are building on successful early results and attempting to spread their innovation more widely.

The projects are:

Enabled by Design - building an online community to crowdsource the development of assistive technology.

Slivers of Time - using the web to enable individuals to contract directly with one another to provide social care services.

East London Food Access - delivering fresh fruit and vegetables to estates with no other access to fresh food.

Brandon Trust & Symbol Family Support Services - using assistive technology to enable parents with learning difficulties to be safe, loving parents.

Speaking Up - harnessing the power of co-production and peer-support to provide a sustainable brokerage service to personal budget holders.

Clean Slate Training - providing work opportunities for people who can be excluded from the labour market.

TimeBank - providing mentoring to young men recovering from mental illness.

Horsesmouth - using the web to connect people seeking support and guidance with other people willing to provide it freely based on their own experiences.

Dance United - using dance-based alternative education to build the self confidence and self-discipline of young offenders.

Creative North - developing mobile phone games to engage young people and help them to learn life skills.

The Prince's Trust - turning mentoring for young offenders from sporadic provision to a universal service across the country

BeatBullying - training young people as peer supporters to help tackle bullying in schools.

Aquila Way - bringing together private landlords and trained volunteers to help vulnerable people to access and retain rented homes.

ESSA and Phoenix Education Trust - working with NEET young people to support youth leadership and build young people's confidence.

Riverside Credit Union - working in Speke, near Liverpool, to develop a pre-paid card allowing credit union holders to use ATMs and shop online.

Innovation Exchange have produced a booklet detailing all of their projects.

Please click here to download it.