Festival of Ideas for independent living - Commissioner invite
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an invitation toFestival of Ideas: Innovation for independent living
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What is the Innovation Exchange?The Innovation Exchange is working to grow innovation from the third sector. The third sector is teeming with solutions, but growing innovation is hard. Innovators, commissioners of services and social investors too often don’t know each other’s phone numbers and lack the capacity and incentive to work together. The Exchange is bringing them together in collaborative innovation around key social challenges.
What is independent living?Disabled people, (including older disabled people), have challenged the meaning of ‘independence’. ‘Independent living’ does not mean doing things for yourself, or living on your own. Instead, it means:• having choice and control over the assistance and/or equipment needed to go about your daily life• having equal access to housing, transport and mobility, health, employment and education and training opportunities
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This event will enable you to
• Scan the horizon of third sector innovation
• Engage the third sector as part of work towards world-class commissioning
• See Ed Miliband, Minister for the Cabinet Office, speak about social innovation
• Learn about the key opportunities for innovation identified by the Exchange
• Help shape the work of innovators and social investors in these opportunity areas
• Build new contacts and work with the best of third sector innovation
This event will ask you to• Contribute your intelligence and creativity
• Offer to feedback on an innovator’s plans in the future
• Consider how you and your organisation might support and benefit from these innovations in the future
Call for ideas from the third sector
Festival of Ideas brings together innovators, commissioners and investors around the
best innovations
Innovators develop their plans online with the
contacts they have made at the Festival
The best innovations receive
a share of the £200k Innovation Exchange Fund
Possible additional support from
commissioners and social investors
The Festival of Ideas will:• Strengthen and focus the work of third sector innovators• Generate powerful connections between innovators, commissioners and social investors
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When: 30th April, 2008
Where: The Resource Centre, 356 Holloway Road, London N7 6PA
(the venue has good disabled access)
What:
10am, Opening, including Ed Miliband, Minister for the Cabinet Office
11am, Identifying opportunities for innovation for independent living
12 noon, Workshops around key opportunities for innovation
1pm, Lunch
2pm, Open space sessions
3.15pm, Close
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