LIFE’S MORE THAN SERVICES What makes life worth living? – loving relationships, to contribute, secure finances, my ‘place’, and to feel safe. Services, are not framed for this. Communities are, but not for ‘the excluded’. We can connect people with people. Individual Service Funds can lead to new connections, relationship networks, + more. We want to be experts at enabling ‘Good Lives’

What makes life worth living? – loving relationships, to contribute, secure finances, my ‘place’, and to feel safe.

Services, are not framed for this.

Communities are, but not for ‘the excluded’.

We can connect people with people.

Individual Service Funds can lead to new connections, relationship networks, + more.

We want to be experts at enabling ‘Good Lives’

The big picture

Features, needs and efficiencies Features of your project Collaboration between Providers and proven Animateurs Access to extensive Community Development expertise and untapped ‘free’ resources/social capital Local Capacity Building giving certainty over continued development and replication Efficiencies created Marketized social care often delivers poor VfM because it impacts perversely by creating dependency and weakens interdependence in communities. It exacerbates social exclusion. This project will demonstrate the ‘abundance’ in communities and build capacity amongst social care providers to work with communities in the interests of those they serve. Needs your project meets Contributing to strong, interdependent, and hospitable communities – Making Belonging possible Ensuring that there is no-one alone – Facilitating Sustainable Relationship Networks Laying the foundations for effective prevention and early intervention initiatives

Features of your project

Collaboration between Providers and proven Animateurs

Access to extensive Community Development expertise and untapped ‘free’ resources/social capital

Local Capacity Building giving certainty over continued development and replication

Efficiencies created

Marketized social care often delivers poor VfM because it impacts perversely by creating dependency and weakens interdependence in communities. It exacerbates social exclusion. This project will demonstrate the ‘abundance’ in communities and build capacity amongst social care providers to work with communities in the interests of those they serve.

Needs your project meets

Contributing to strong, interdependent, and hospitable communities – Making Belonging possible

Ensuring that there is no-one alone – Facilitating Sustainable Relationship Networks

Laying the foundations for effective prevention and early intervention initiatives

Measures of success Inspiring stories of reduced dependence Participant provider organisations structured and skilled-up to contribute to, connect and organise with their communities and each other People with developing relationship networks and evidence of benefits

Inspiring stories of reduced dependence

Participant provider organisations structured and skilled-up to contribute to, connect and organise with their communities and each other

People with developing relationship networks and evidence of benefits

Support Expeditious action by ‘Procurers’ to facilitate the better use of existing funds/varying of restrictive specs and contracts as necessary Responsive Project Liaison arrangements to quickly resolve sticking points and promote effective collaboration with LA’s Champions in the LA’s served

Expeditious action by ‘Procurers’ to facilitate the better use of existing funds/varying of restrictive specs and contracts as necessary

Responsive Project Liaison arrangements to quickly resolve sticking points and promote effective collaboration with LA’s

Champions in the LA’s served

Please delete as appropriate. I am /willing to attend the Festival of Ideas on 12 th November to talk about this project and to be signed up to the Innovation Exchange website to support this knowledge sharing after the event. I do /understand that this event is the launch of the North East JIP’s Provider Development Fund and I am interested in the possibility of applying to this Fund in the future I do /understand that this Fund will only support projects that involve collaboration between at least two providers of social care services and that funded projects will be part of an evaluation process to include both research interviews and knowledge sharing events. Your commitments

I am /willing to attend the Festival of Ideas on 12 th November to talk about this project and to be signed up to the Innovation Exchange website to support this knowledge sharing after the event.

I do /understand that this event is the launch of the North East JIP’s Provider Development Fund and I am interested in the possibility of applying to this Fund in the future

I do /understand that this Fund will only support projects that involve collaboration between at least two providers of social care services and that funded projects will be part of an evaluation process to include both research interviews and knowledge sharing events.