If you are looking for bold ideas that will deliver long-term impact for people, address persistent inequalities and transform the systems that surround them, read on for inspiration.
We work with ambitious leaders to rethink current approaches to big problems in areas such as health and social care, education and justice. We create better outcomes and experiences for vulnerable people and better outcomes for the wider system. Here’s how:
Innovation Unit Design Academy
Young Responders with St John Ambulance
Designing an FDV Hub for Armadale
Re-establishing safety, rebuilding connections
Adopting Innovation to improve health and care
Setting up hubs to identify, adapt and adopt the innovations which make a difference to people’s lives
with Health Foundation
Always Hope
Supporting young adults with experience of care and custody to improve their chances of rehabilitation and create a positive future
with Multiple partners
Sport England
Making sport, physical activity and movement a normal part of life for everyone
with Sport England
Place-based community engagement
Rangatahi thriving in Murihiku: creating a bright future with the young people of Southland
with Te Rourou, Vodafone Aotearoa Foundation
Health Equalities
Reducing health inequalities through effective and sustainable partnerships between the voluntary and statutory sector
with The National Lottery Community Fund
Health Anchors Learning Network
with Health Foundation, NHS England and NHS Improvement
Sport NZ system mapping
OPPORTUNITIES FOR A MORE INCLUSIVE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY SYSTEM: DIVERSE NZERS’ STORIES
with SPORT NEW ZEALAND IHI AOTEAROA
Collective action for an age-friendly Auckland
Tāmaki Tauawhi Kaumātua
with Auckland Council
Foyer Broome
The first of its kind: a regional foyer model for young people in the Kimberley
with Anglicare WA, Foundation Housing Ltd and Nirrumbuk Aboriginal Organisation
Peel refuge
A journey to recovery: co-designing the first therapeutic refuge service model in Western Australia
with Department of Communities in Western Australia
Greater Manchester’s real time learning project
Learning from Innovation in a Crisis
with Greater Manchester Combined Authority
Realising a powerful vision for learning and transforming Bermuda’s public schools
Collaboratively designing an improved school system for Bermuda
with Ministry of Education
Strengthening families, protecting children programme
Supporting scaling innovation in children's social care
with Department for Education
An innovative model of out-of-home care
Children’s voices guide the way for new model of care
with Parkerville Children and Youth Care
REPORT: MAI TE WHAI-AO KI TE AO MĀRAMA
Bringing to light distress and healing in early motherhood
with Te Hiringa Hauora|Health Promotion Agency
Bridging the Gaps
New approaches for care experienced young people given prison sentences
with Barrow Cadbury
Age-friendly Tāmaki Makaurau Report
Opportunities for system-level collaboration to create an age-friendly region
with Auckland City Council
Innovation in Children’s Social Care
Scaling and Spreading No Wrong Door
with Sheffield City Council, Middlesbrough Council, Greater Manchester local authorities and Bradford City Council
Innovation in Children's Social Care Research project
Research ~ Innovation addressing complex safeguarding risks for young people
with ESRC
Collaborative Commissioning
Supporting children and young people in Rochdale to not just be well, but to #Thrive
with Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council and Rochdale CCG
Adult mental health
Scaling and spreading
Living Well UK to Edinburgh, Luton, Salford, and Tameside & Glossop
with National Lottery
Violence affecting young people
Research ~ Community views on violence affecting young people
with Greater Manchester Combined Authority
Māori heart health
Taking a Māori-centred approach to heart health
with Heart Foundation of New Zealand
Elevate ~ insights
Unleashing brilliance: design-led professional learning for teachers
with Association of Independent Schools of New South Wales (AISNSW)
Raising Learning Outcomes
Research ~ The opportunities & challenges of ICT for learning
with UNICEF, AGA KHAN EDUCATION SERVICES and AGA KHAN FOUNDATION
Amplify
Designing brighter futures for students
with Association of Independent Schools Western Australia (AISWA)
Named Social Worker
Putting people back at the heart of social work
with Department of Health and Social Care, SCIE
Adult mental health
Creating a new landscape for mental health - with
co-production at its heart
with Lambeth Clinical Commissioning Group & Lambeth Council
Integrated employment support
Supporting people to lead happy, healthy working lives
with LEARNING AND WORK INSTITUTE AND WORK AND HEALTH UNIT
Childhood obesity
Creating easier, healthier food choices on the high street
with HEALTHY LONDON PARTNERSHIP, GUY’S AND ST THOMAS’ CHARITY, BATTERSEA POWER STATION FOUNDATION WITH HYDE HOUSING, HARINGEY COUNCIL, SOUTHWARK COUNCIL AND LAMBETH COUNCIL
Healthy Families NZ Workforce Development
Building community capability to prevent chronic diseases
with Ministry of Health and Healthy Families NZ providers across Aotearoa New Zealand
A new care model for older people
Refining a proactive and holistic care model for over-65s
with West London CCG
Asset-based children's services
A system-wide approach to innovation
with WIGAN COUNCIL
Spreading and scaling innovation in the NHS
Research ~ Successfully scaling innovation in the NHS
with The Health Foundation
New Schools Design Lab
Redesigning schools and learning for the future
with Innovation Unit Australia
Cities + Mayors + Innovation
Providing cities with tools to scale and spread innovation
with Bloomberg Philanthropies
Generations
Reducing social isolation amongst older people
with An Innovate Change / Innovation Unit ANZ venture
Innovations in children's social care
Transforming outcomes for children and young people in care
with Spring consortium delivering for the department for education
Kaitaia Youth Project
Helping young people to thrive in Te Hiku
with Ministry of Social Development
GoodFuture
Ensuring every young Australian has a great start to life, and an even better future
with Goodstart
End of life care
Creating new solutions for end of life care
with Guy's & St. Thomas' Charity
NHS Innovation Accelerator
Learning by doing - scaling innovation in the NHS
with NHS innovation accelerator hosted by ucl partners
Peer Crowds Alcohol Behaviour Change Project
Preventing alcohol related harm among young people
with Counties Manukau Health, the Health Promotion Agency, CAYAD Auckland, the Aotearoa New Zealand Drug Foundation, Odyssey, Healthy Families Manukau, Manurewa-Papakura, CAYAD Auckland (Auckland Council), Youthline, Real and CHAMP
STEM Innovation Partnerships
Schools collaborating to solve system challenges at scale
with Department of education, Western Australia
Learning outcomes for schools
Supporting extraordinary learning across a global network of schools
with Aga Khan education services
Thriving Communities
Supporting families better by investing in community assets & local leadership
with Derbyshire County Council
Homelessness + substance misuse + criminal justice
Revealing & changing lives by going beyond data to share rich, human stories
with Lankelly Chase & User Voice
Family relationships
Improving outcomes for children by supporting parental relationships
with Department for Work and Pensions
Harekeke - Parents for Parents
Creating stronger social connections between parents of under-fives
with Innovate change and Innovation Unit Australia
Diabetes model of care
Combatting type two diabetes in Auckland
with Auckland District Health Board and Waitematā District Health Board, Aotearoa New Zealand
Behind the wheel
Keeping young drivers safe
with Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC), Aotearoa New Zealand Transport Agency, Curative