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Helping local people help other local people

Communities Care

We help people and communities across the country to use their talents to start and run small enterprises and community businesses that support and care for other local people. They create good local jobs and keep local money local. They help people live a good life, connected with and contributing to their community.

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Building on strength and unlocking potential

People Can

People sometimes need support to live their lives. The help they need can overshadow their skills. This waste of talent hurts the person, their community and society. We help people dream and make things happen. We help local organisations to create the conditions in which people can follow their dreams.

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Discovering, learning and doing things better

Innovators Learn

We help people find ways to approach health and care that put people before systems. We offer accessible, engaging learning opportunities for health and care practitioners and people who use health or care services. All our personal development programmes have a strong focus on people’s strengths, building on what works well. We also regularly speak at conferences and events across the sector.

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Innovators learn

Equipment and coproduction – Medequip

Partnership with equipment provider, Medequip, to develop their approaches to community connection and coproduction.

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Innovators learn

Short breaks for Children & Young People in Nottingham City

Partnership project that sees Community Catalysts working with Nottingham City Council. Started in September 2022 and running for 10 months.

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Innovators learn

Tackling the barriers to choice – NHS England NE&Y

Working in partnership with NHS England and the North East and Yorkshire Personalisation Team to unlock more capacity and choice.

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Innovators learn

Community power and community business

Exploring how to increase the role and opportunities for communities to collectively improve the health and care within their neighbourhoods.

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Innovators learn

The Big Conversation in Nottinghamshire

Community Catalysts worked in partnership with Nottinghamshire County Council, the coproduction group Our Voice and local people and communities to have a Big Conversation about social care.

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Innovators learn

Your Life, Your Opportunities – Bolton

Bolton Council, in partnership with Bolton Cares and local partners, are leading a review of the way that day services are provided in Bolton. Community Catalysts was asked to help with the engagement and coproduction elements of the project.

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Innovators learn

Exploring daytime support in Merton

A 6-month engagement project with the London Borough of Merton Council as part of a wider piece of work to review what people do during the day.

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Innovators learn

People doing it for themselves – development

Finding, connecting and learning from leaders who also use care services to better understand the conditions that enable people to believe in themselves and use their gifts.

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People can

Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

Supporting local people to run creative, engaging community micro-enterprises for autistic people, people with a learning disability, as well as older people and people with dementia.

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People can

City of Westminster

Supporting local people to run creative, engaging community micro-enterprises for autistic people, people with a learning disability, as well as older people and people with dementia.

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Telford and Wrekin

Supporting passionate people to develop local community businesses with a health, care and wellbeing focus.

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Bedford

We have been commissioned by the Economic Development Team at Bedford Borough Council, which has received UK Shared Prosperity Funding…

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