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MenuOur approach to people powered innovation is community-led, uses a wide range of design methods and tools, and has a strong focus on practice.
Our approach to growing people powered innovations combines expertise in learning and evaluation, system change and systems thinking, scaling and spreading, and the design and delivery of programmes.
We work hand-in-hand with our partners, adapting our offers and methodologies to every unique context and challenge.
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Community-led innovation
We work with local communities to improve the places where people live. Together, we dig deep to find root causes of problems, challenge assumptions, and design and implement meaningful change.
We are experts in community engagement and co-design approaches that reveal what matters most to communities, bringing people together in ways that address existing power imbalances.
We support collaborative place-based leadership. To do this we work alongside and coach leaders from communities and anchor organisations fostering collaboration between partners, building skills and capabilities, and embedding new ways of working.
We can help you by:
- Facilitating community engagement across diverse communities
- Using participative methods, to mobilise and community action
- Helping communities to codesign change
- Building place based collaboration and partnerships
- Developing collaborative place based leadership
- Demonstrating the impact of community led innovation
We work with local communities to improve the places where people live. Together, we dig deep to find root causes of problems, challenge assumptions, and design and implement meaningful change.
We are experts in community engagement and co-design approaches that reveal what matters most to communities, bringing people together in ways that address existing power imbalances.
We support collaborative place-based leadership. To do this we work alongside and coach leaders from communities and anchor organisations fostering collaboration between partners, building skills and capabilities, and embedding new ways of working.
We can help you by:
- Facilitating community engagement across diverse communities
- Using participative methods, to mobilise and community action
- Helping communities to codesign change
- Building place based collaboration and partnerships
- Developing collaborative place based leadership
- Demonstrating the impact of community led innovation
Design
We use design to imagine better futures and unite people in their creation. Our approach is rooted in lived experience, imagination, and collaboration. We work together to diagnose the root causes of challenges by amplifying marginalised voices and diverse perspectives.
We co-develop innovative ideas — making them tangible through new service models, blueprints, tools, and practices. We prototype, learn, and iterate to create solutions that last and grow the mindsets, behaviours and conditions needed for continuing improvement and innovation.
We can help you by:
- Leading participatory and ethnographic research
- Using storytelling and sense making to build shared understanding
- Mapping journeys, services, and systems
- Co-designing new visions, offers, roles, blueprints, and touch points
- Creating visual and accessible branding
- Prototyping and testing ideas and strategies
- Developing tools, websites, videos, and resources
- Growing and embedding new cultures and practices
- Delivering training in design for system change
We use design to imagine better futures and unite people in their creation. Our approach is rooted in lived experience, imagination, and collaboration. We work together to diagnose the root causes of challenges by amplifying marginalised voices and diverse perspectives.
We co-develop innovative ideas — making them tangible through new service models, blueprints, tools, and practices. We prototype, learn, and iterate to create solutions that last and grow the mindsets, behaviours and conditions needed for continuing improvement and innovation.
We can help you by:
- Leading participatory and ethnographic research
- Using storytelling and sense making to build shared understanding
- Mapping journeys, services, and systems
- Co-designing new visions, offers, roles, blueprints, and touch points
- Creating visual and accessible branding
- Prototyping and testing ideas and strategies
- Developing tools, websites, videos, and resources
- Growing and embedding new cultures and practices
- Delivering training in design for system change
Learning
Learning is an essential element of impactful innovation, and changing complex systems. Our approach to learning is collaborative, action oriented and context-specific.
We help foundations and other funders generate learning and insights from their portfolio of projects, strengthen the impact of their programmes and improve their investment decisions.
We also help governments and foundations to spread innovative practice and new ways of working by convening learning networks.
We help innovators to gather evidence, reflect and make improvements; and we help leaders to understand their context, chart a course, and make better decisions.
We can help you by
- Delivering learning and evaluation programmes
- Facilitating communities of practice and learning networks
- Providing coaching to leaders and innovators
- Running action learning sets and peer learning spaces
- Synthesising evidence and codifying best practice
- Developing learning and evaluation frameworks
- Producing practical tools and learning resources
- Embedding learning behaviours, spaces and infrastructure
Learning is an essential element of impactful innovation, and changing complex systems. Our approach to learning is collaborative, action oriented and context-specific.
We help foundations and other funders generate learning and insights from their portfolio of projects, strengthen the impact of their programmes and improve their investment decisions.
We also help governments and foundations to spread innovative practice and new ways of working by convening learning networks.
We help innovators to gather evidence, reflect and make improvements; and we help leaders to understand their context, chart a course, and make better decisions.
We can help you by
- Delivering learning and evaluation programmes
- Facilitating communities of practice and learning networks
- Providing coaching to leaders and innovators
- Running action learning sets and peer learning spaces
- Synthesising evidence and codifying best practice
- Developing learning and evaluation frameworks
- Producing practical tools and learning resources
- Embedding learning behaviours, spaces and infrastructure
Practice
Transforming practice can transform outcomes for the public. We help teams of practitioners to design, test and embed new ways of working that are grounded in evidence, shaped by values, and designed to tackle inequalities.
We work with teams from mental health, social care, and neighbourhood health to children’s services, probation, and neighbourhood support, to build confident, collaborative and effective teams.
Together, we develop and test new practice models that are strengths based, person centred, systemic and relational. We embed this way of working through coaching, reflection, and engagement with lived experience.
We can help you to:
- Co-design and test new practice models
- Develop handbooks, assessment and care planning tools
- Create service offers, SOPs and documentation guides
- Mobilise and strengthen integrated MDTs
- Build governance models, supervision and QA/QI frameworks
- Co-create and deliver induction, e-learning and staff development materials
- Facilitate reflective learning spaces and practice labs
- Codify and scale what works
Transforming practice can transform outcomes for the public. We help teams of practitioners to design, test and embed new ways of working that are grounded in evidence, shaped by values, and designed to tackle inequalities.
We work with teams from mental health, social care, and neighbourhood health to children’s services, probation, and neighbourhood support, to build confident, collaborative and effective teams.
Together, we develop and test new practice models that are strengths based, person centred, systemic and relational. We embed this way of working through coaching, reflection, and engagement with lived experience.
We can help you to:
- Co-design and test new practice models
- Develop handbooks, assessment and care planning tools
- Create service offers, SOPs and documentation guides
- Mobilise and strengthen integrated MDTs
- Build governance models, supervision and QA/QI frameworks
- Co-create and deliver induction, e-learning and staff development materials
- Facilitate reflective learning spaces and practice labs
- Codify and scale what works
Programmes
Contrary to popular belief, innovation is a social process rather than the product of lone mavericks. Innovation really flourishes in structured, appropriately resourced environments with effective risk management.
We design and deliver innovation programmes for governments, funders and investors that deliver the key ingredients for success: financial investment; comprehensive support; access to knowledge and evidence; contact with networks and peers; and the explicit permission to experiment and learn from failure.
We can help you by:
- Researching and framing the innovation challenge and the outcomes you want to achieve
- Structuring funding, shaping programs, and setting selection criteria
- Integrating scaling strategies, and planning for sustainability
- Identifying markets and stimulating engagement
- Selecting promising innovations for investment
- Managing funding agreements and contracts
- Providing non-financial test-and-learn support
- Guiding evaluations, governance, partner engagement
- Delivering peer learning programmes
Contrary to popular belief, innovation is a social process rather than the product of lone mavericks. Innovation really flourishes in structured, appropriately resourced environments with effective risk management.
We design and deliver innovation programmes for governments, funders and investors that deliver the key ingredients for success: financial investment; comprehensive support; access to knowledge and evidence; contact with networks and peers; and the explicit permission to experiment and learn from failure.
We can help you by:
- Researching and framing the innovation challenge and the outcomes you want to achieve
- Structuring funding, shaping programs, and setting selection criteria
- Integrating scaling strategies, and planning for sustainability
- Identifying markets and stimulating engagement
- Selecting promising innovations for investment
- Managing funding agreements and contracts
- Providing non-financial test-and-learn support
- Guiding evaluations, governance, partner engagement
- Delivering peer learning programmes
Scaling
Many systems develop promising innovations that improve both person-centred and system-level outcomes - reducing demand on services and supporting people to thrive. However, all too often these innovations fail to spread.
We understand that scaling innovation requires more than a ‘lift and shift’ approach. Our ‘Adopt and Adapt’ methodology balances the tension between fidelity to an innovation’s core principles with flexibility of implementation in a new context.
We work with innovators to help them develop and implement a plan for growing their innovation. We also work with organisations seeking to implement innovations developed elsewhere, and with government departments and funders interested in scaling innovations regionally or nationally.
We can help you to:
- Codify an innovation
- Assess readiness to implement and plan for implementation
- Make the case for adopting innovations in new contexts
- Engage local partners in the case for change and develop new ways of working
- Develop a shared theory of change with partners that guides evaluation
- Provide coaching support and structured learning programmes
Many systems develop promising innovations that improve both person-centred and system-level outcomes - reducing demand on services and supporting people to thrive. However, all too often these innovations fail to spread.
We understand that scaling innovation requires more than a ‘lift and shift’ approach. Our ‘Adopt and Adapt’ methodology balances the tension between fidelity to an innovation’s core principles with flexibility of implementation in a new context.
We work with innovators to help them develop and implement a plan for growing their innovation. We also work with organisations seeking to implement innovations developed elsewhere, and with government departments and funders interested in scaling innovations regionally or nationally.
We can help you to:
- Codify an innovation
- Assess readiness to implement and plan for implementation
- Make the case for adopting innovations in new contexts
- Engage local partners in the case for change and develop new ways of working
- Develop a shared theory of change with partners that guides evaluation
- Provide coaching support and structured learning programmes
Systems change
Too many powerful innovations find themselves trying to grow despite the cultures and structures that are holding them back. We help nurture the ground in which innovations can really take root - we help to grow people-powered systems.
We work with local, regional and national governments to name and tackle the barriers to innovations flourishing – from how we take decisions, what we measure, and where the money flows, to our norms of leadership, practice, and the values we live every day.
Our ‘growing people-centred systems’ model helps to grow the cultures and structures that make systems change the easier choice, not the hard one.
We can help you to:
- Develop system leadership across all the partners in a place
- Convene and support system leaders to develop a roadmap for growing a new people-powered system
- Co-design and embed governance and evaluation approaches
- Diagnose the barriers to innovation in your existing system
Too many powerful innovations find themselves trying to grow despite the cultures and structures that are holding them back. We help nurture the ground in which innovations can really take root - we help to grow people-powered systems.
We work with local, regional and national governments to name and tackle the barriers to innovations flourishing – from how we take decisions, what we measure, and where the money flows, to our norms of leadership, practice, and the values we live every day.
Our ‘growing people-centred systems’ model helps to grow the cultures and structures that make systems change the easier choice, not the hard one.
We can help you to:
- Develop system leadership across all the partners in a place
- Convene and support system leaders to develop a roadmap for growing a new people-powered system
- Co-design and embed governance and evaluation approaches
- Diagnose the barriers to innovation in your existing system