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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 in just a few hours

• 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 commissioners in these opportunity areas

• Build new contacts and take the chance to support the best of the third sector

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 might support one of these innovations in the future

Call for ideas from the third sector

Festival of Ideas brings together innovators, commissioners and

investors around ideas

Innovators develop their plans online with the contacts they have made

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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Please reply to:

Raj Cheemainteract@innovation-exchange.org0207 259 1368