Established in 2009, we have worked in over ninety local authority areas across the UK, developing a reputation for delivery and quality.
We work with (and are funded by) local authorities, the NHS, private companies, other social enterprises and charities. Read more in our latest Impact Report.
Whatever the challenges you’re facing as a commissioner, we can help find creative and practical solutions.
We also have evidence based and tried and tested models that can be commissioned separately or brought together into a bespoke package with you.
We partner with local authorities to support local people to use their talents to set up and run their own community micro-enterprise that helps others in the community. These micro-enterprises create good local jobs, keep money in the local economy and help people live a good life. This is known as community micro-enterprise development.
The Community Micro-enterprise Development Programme is designed around quality standards and assurance. Our Doing it Right Standards and Advice Framework ensure that community micro-enterprises that are set up are safe, legal, personalised and sustainable.
We sometimes see people in relation to their needs and not their aspirations. Needs are assessed, services commissioned, and requirements are met or not met. In this process we can overlook people’s strengths, skills and dreams. We help people to draw on their own gifts and strengths, as well as those of their community to achieve their vision of a good life.
We help policy makers, the public sector and providers of care and support to hear and listen to people’s voices in the design and delivery of services. Our Big Conversation approach supports people to have quality conversations for effective collaboration, coproduction and strategic planning.
Local Area Coordination is a form of neighbourhood and preventative support currently available to a population of one million people in over 100 different communities. It is a relational approach that builds on what is strong in people’s lives and communities. It helps people thrive, nurtures inclusive communities and improves services and systems.
Strong evidence is available to show Local Area Coordination reduces pressures on public services, simplifies the system, supports integration and strengthens cross-system collaboration.
Health and social care leaders and teams can find it hard in the day-to-day to step back and reflect on their own understanding and practice. Bringing in new ideas, knowledge and innovative solutions takes determined and sustained effort.
We offer creative and immersive workshops and courses to help people rethink service design and to innovate.
We are a Community Interest Company working for change, not profit.
We have all the policies in place that you as a commissioner or funder would expect. These are regularly reviewed, updated and available to you as part of contracting with us. We have robust approaches to quality assurance and to monitoring, evaluation and reporting. We have tools to quantify the financial and societal benefits of our work.
Our Senior Team are available for any enquiries and questions, and our Director of Business Operations manages all financial, legal and contractual matters.
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