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:
The Caithness Place Based Demonstrator
Developing bold new ways of working to support communities to live well locally
with Hub North Scotland & Scottish Futures Trust
From Vision to Reality
Mental Health Transformation in Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester Living Well
Providing better mental health support across Greater Manchester
with Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Board, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, Voluntary and Community Sector Organisations and Local Authorities across the 10 boroughs.
Anchored in the Future
Supporting anchor institutions to take a preventative approach to community health
with The Health Foundation
Healthy Devon Learning Labs
A collaborative, whole system, stigma-free approach to weight
with One Devon
The Adopting Innovation Programme
Supporting health and care systems to become active adopters of innovation
Always Hope
Transforming support for care and custody experienced young adults
No Wrong Door
Transforming cultures in and beyond Children’s Social Care
Communities at the core
Greater Manchester’s GoodLives journey
with GoodLives GM
Innovation Unit's impact
Solving today’s problems, growing future solutions
The Living Well UK programme
Transforming adult community mental health services and support
GoodLives GM
Tackling inequalities in Greater Manchester by getting rid of barriers to community-led innovation
with Greater Manchester Combined Authority
The Innovation Unit vision
The future of UK public services
An Invitation to Transform
Systems of care and support for neurodivergent young girls
Young Responders with St John Ambulance
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
with Multiple partners
Sport England
Making sport, physical activity and movement a normal part of life for everyone
with Sport England
Health Equalities
Building effective and sustainable partnerships between the voluntary and statutory sector
with The National Lottery Community Fund
Transforming adult community mental health
We work with mental health trusts, voluntary and community sector organisations, local authorities and people with lived experience of mental health issues, to transform adult community mental health services in the UK.
Health Anchors Learning Network
A UK-wide network for people responsible for anchor approaches in health
with The Health Foundation
Greater Manchester’s real time learning project
Learning from Innovation in a Crisis
with Greater Manchester Combined Authority
Strengthening families, protecting children programme
Supporting scaling innovation in children's social care
with Department for Education
Bridging the Gaps
New approaches for care experienced young people given prison sentences
with Barrow Cadbury
Learning from a crisis: transforming children’s social care
COVID-19 has highlighted that children’s social care services are not working for many young people and families. We must redesign the system to give families the help they need as early as possible.
Co-designing the future of mental health services and support
We must redesign services and systems of support so people struggling with their mental health can get the help they need now.
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
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
Raising Learning Outcomes
Research ~ The opportunities & challenges of ICT for learning
with UNICEF, AGA KHAN EDUCATION SERVICES and AGA KHAN FOUNDATION
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
A new care model for older people
Refining a proactive and holistic care model for over-65s
with West London CCG
Spreading and scaling innovation in the NHS
Research ~ Successfully scaling innovation in the NHS
with The Health Foundation
Cities + Mayors + Innovation
Providing cities with tools to scale and spread innovation
with Bloomberg Philanthropies
Innovations in children's social care
Transforming outcomes for children and young people in care
with Spring consortium delivering for the department for education
End of life care
Creating new solutions for end of life care
with Guy's & St. Thomas' Charity
Excluding children doesn't work. It’s time we engaged every learner.
We are on a mission to create new models of learning that engage each and every learner.
New solutions, at scale. We’re up for it. Are you?
New, better, lower cost solutions to big social challenges are urgently needed. We need widespread, affordable, new and better solutions for whole populations now.
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
How do we reinvent school for the modern world?
The thriving societies of tomorrow need thriving young people today: children and young adults who want and are able to positively shape the world around them.
Family relationships
Improving outcomes for children by supporting parental relationships
with Department for Work and Pensions