an invitation to Festival of Ideas: Innovation for independent living with

Context Festival Outputs Info RSVP What is the Innovation Exchange ? The Innovation Exchange is working to grow innovation with 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

What is the Innovation Exchange ? The Innovation Exchange is working to grow innovation with 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

Context Festival Outputs Info RSVP This event will enable you to See Ed Miliband , Minister for the Cabinet Office, speak about social innovation Learn about the key opportunities for innovation identified by the Exchange so far Meet other innovators and seek support and advice to boost your work Take a step towards accessing a share of the £200k NESTA Fund . This event will ask you to Contribute your intelligence and creativity Talk about your innovations Seek advice and support from others

This event will enable you to

See Ed Miliband , Minister for the Cabinet Office, speak about social innovation

Learn about the key opportunities for innovation identified by the Exchange so far

Meet other innovators and seek support and advice to boost your work

Take a step towards accessing a share of the £200k NESTA Fund .

This event will ask you to

Contribute your intelligence and creativity

Talk about your innovations

Seek advice and support from others

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 Context Festival Outputs Info RSVP

The Festival of Ideas will:

Strengthen and focus the work of third sector innovators

Generate powerful connections between innovators, commissioners and

social investors

Context Festival Outputs Info RSVP When : 30 th April, 2008 Where : ORT Housing Conference Centre, 126 Albert Street, London, NW1 7NE What : 10am, Opening, including Ed Miliband, Minister for the Cabinet Office 11am, Ideas for innovation for independent living (Identifying opportunities) 12 noon Developing ideas together (around key opportunities for innovation) 1pm, Lunch 2pm, Refining the ideas and planning next steps 4pm, Close

Context Festival Outputs Info RSVP

Context Festival Outputs Info RSVP Please reply to: Raj Cheema [email_address] 0207 259 1368 Design concept for this invitation by The Hub. The Hub is the place for people making good, tackling the world’s most pressing social, cultural and environmental challenges, from within and beyond the public, private and third sector. See www.the-hub.net