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Blastbeat in a Box creates and gameifies the existing Blastbeat programme and develops an online tool kit, built around the Blastbeat programme. Blastbeat wraps the learning experience in music, dance or sport, that leverages young peoples interests and passions to engage NEETs back in the learning process and enhances their positive learning experience teaching business and life skills in a very compelling way. Blastbeat in a Box helps to empower young people to be event creators and social entrepreneurs, programming and selling out live events and creating performance opportunities for other young people that are intense yet cool and FUN. Blastbeat has a programme and an expertise that has proven very successful at engaging these young people, NEET's in particular will benefit young people NEET
Robert - 01/24/2012
Young people face uncertain times. With the economic storm set to continue we need to rethink what a career means to us and more importantly how we achieve it. Nearly all of us want to find a career we will love and we don't want to sit down and talk all day about it we want to do! We need a NEW Start. We need National Enthusiasm Week (NEW) launching October 2012.
Andre - 01/13/2012
Sustainaville is a seriously fun game where players are empowered to play themselves to a sustainable future. Sustainaville aims to make it as FUN to "save" the world in real life, as it is "saving" the world in online gaming. With the increasing number of gamers all around the world; games have become the number one medium to influence youth. Our innovative modes of play have been specifically designed to capture a wide audience of gamers. The modes of play are PLAY.REDESIGN.ACT.
Neo - 01/09/2012
A user-friendly website linking young people to global volunteering placements, developing the skills they need for the careers they want.
Catherine - 01/05/2012
The annual UK Children's Fine Art Competition is open to all children aged from 4 - 16 years of age. Endorsed by The Department for Education, it is an exciting, highly rewarding and all inclusive opportunity which aims to raise the aspirations of children and endow children with the best of values and principles. But it also provides significant cross-curricular learning opportunities in History, Geography, Citizenship, Religious Studies and several other subjects
Alan - 11/18/2011
south London has little or no social enterprise network, spaces, support to get your ideas off the ground etc. I want to create this and get a social enterprise buzz going south of the river. what I need to get going is: social entrepreneurs / social enterprises in south London Venues to hold informal networking events Some oher team members to help get this going advice and support and ideas - what else can we do? what is needed?
Isebail - 04/13/2011
Organization : Hackney Council
Role : Councillor
Interests : Education, Social Enterprise, International Development
Email : rgsmedley@gmail.com
Organization : Cuprium
Role : Making it happen
Interests : openmoney, freesoftware, permaculture, hackspace, accessibility, affordable homeownership for low income households, aikido, biodiversity, collaboration, digital divide, digital inclusion, drupal, gardens, microfinance, philosophy, programming, project management, public service transformation, public spending data, race online, re-use, regeneration, regional economies, local economies, local food systems, renewable energy, rural, social enterprise, social enterprise/ start-ups/international development, software development, sustainability, sustainable travel, transition towns, urban spaces, allotments, urbangardening
Organization : unemployed student
Role : NA
Interests : Humanitarian Aid and International Development
Organization : Cambridgeshire County Council
Role :
Interests : using ideas and evidence to drive social innovation, sustainable travel, sustainability, social entrepreneur, social enterprise/ start-ups/international development, green technology, cleantech, EU funding
Organization : Centrifuge Consulting ltd
Role : Director
Interests : action, ageing well, agencies, agile, adaptive technology, anthropological studies, apps, arts, arts education, arts funding, asset transfer, assistive technology, befriending, big society, bureaucracy, business startups, business support, business value, catalytic change, change, children, children services, cities, citizen engagement, citizen engagement/voice, citizen journalism, civic engagement, co-creation, co-design, co-production, co-working, collaboration, collaborative, collaborative consumption, collaborative decision making, collaborative governance, collaborative technologies, commissioning, communications, communities, communities of practice, community, community assets / transfer, community buildings, community development, community development trusts, community management / ownership, community mapping, community media, community solutions, community profit, connecting social innovators with great resources, consumer research, council, creative industries, creativity, crowdsourcing, cultural industries, culture, culture change, current affairs, customer services, democracy, design, design-thinking, design for all, design thinking, design thinking and project management, diagnostics, digital inclusion, disabled people, economic development, eco projects, editing, education, empowerment, enterprise, entrepreneurship, general innovation around making the environment more accessible for everyone, getting fit, gettogethers, get togethers, government, health, health and wellbeing, healthcare, helping people into work, heritage/history, homelessness, human services, hyper local content, hyper local resources, ideas, incentive structures, inclusion, inclusion accessibility, independent living, innovation, innovation platforms, innovation problem solving, innovators, intercultural communication, international development, kids, knowledge management, lean, lifelong learning, local, local economies, local government, local government communities, mapping, marketing, networks, network society, network, new forms and styles of work, new technology, nudge, older adults, older people, older people services, online consultations, online learning, open data, open government, open innovation, open source, open source sharing, organically grown public services, organisation, our scoiety, our society, participation, ownership, participative design., participatory budgeting, people., planning, politics, poverty, private sector, private spaces, project management, pubic policy, public, public administration improvement, public engagement, public libraries, public participation, public policy, public sector, public sector innovation, public service, public spaces, public spending data, public value, real world and online engagement, refugees, regional economies, rural, schools, scotland, scrutiny, service, service design, shared understanding, social, social app store, social business, socialbysocial, social care, social change, social change., social design and thinking, social enterprise, social enterprise and giving communities voice, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurship, social innovation, socialinnovation, social innovation and innovative policy making, social interaction, social media, social network analysis, social networking, social networks, social practices, social reporting, socialreporting co-design engagement networks, social venture, social venturing, society, software development, startups, strategy, sustainability, teachers, technology, third sector, to build the skills and capacity needed for fast, to build the skills and capacity needed for fastand social changebig societybusiness supportbusiness valuechangecitizen engagementco-creationco-productioncollaborationcollaborative governancecommissioningcommunities of practicecommunity solutionsconnecting social innovators with great resourcescreativityculture changeenterpriseinclusion accessibilityinnovation problem solvinginnovatorsopen innovationparticipationpubic policypublic sector innovationsocial businesssocial enterprisesocial enterprise and giving communities voicesocial innovation and innovative policy makingstartup consultingusing ideas and evidence to drive social innovationyoung peopleaction, transformation, unemployment, universities, urban planning, urban spaces, usability, user experience and usability, user experience design, user involvement, using ideas and evidence to drive social innovation, volunteering, volunteerism, visual thinking, walking, web design, work, young people, youth
Organization : A4e
Role : Learning and Development Trainer
Interests : Personal Developement - Social Innovation - International Development - Creativity - Sports - Networking
Email : isebailmackinnon@gmail.com
Organization : Machair
Role :
Interests : Social enterprise/ start-ups/international development
Organization : Castlehaven
Role : Director
Interests : ageing well, children, children services, citizen engagement/voice, citizen journalism, co-design, co-production, collaboration, community assets / transfer, community development trusts, creative industries, digital inclusion, emedia, entertainment and community events, entrepreneurship, fundraising, gardens, health and wellbeing, helping people into work, information technology, kids, knowledge management, lifelong learning, literacy, local economies, localgov, local government, mental health, music, new forms and styles of work, new technology, older adults, older people, older people services, our scoiety, photography, poverty, public sector, public sector innovation, regeneration, service improvement, social enterprise, social enterprise/ start-ups/international development, social enterprise and giving communities voice, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurship, social innovation, socialinnovation, social reporting, startup, startup consulting, startups, start ups, strategy, tech, technology, theatre, volunteering, volunteerism, web design, web development, young people, youth
Organization : Southampton University
Role : Researcher / Systems architect
Interests : accessibility, adaptive methods, adaptive technology, africa, agile, apis, application, bringing old and young together, business networking, collaboration, collaborative technologies, communities, eco projects, entrepreneurship, feature extraction, health and wellbeing, innovation problem solving, international development, microfinance, open data, problem solving, project and programme mgmt, outreach, random hacks of kindness, software dev
Email : info@littlefishmediacompany.com
Organization : Little Fish Media Company Ltd
Role : Founder
Interests : social change, community engagement, collaboration, community engagement; design; youth leadership; personal development; sustainability, community managed libraries, community organisation, digital inclusion: esp. middle-aged upwards, digital inclusion, e-learning, ebooks, elearning, empowerment, big society, engagement, enterprise, entrepreneurship, event facilitation, google docs, google, gettogethers, getting fit, grassroots projects to empower communities, harnessing public sector skills for community improvement, health and wellbeing, helping people into work, hyper local content, hyper local resources, iphone, ipad, local economic development, local economies, live streaming, local government, local government communities, london 2012, marketing solutions, mobile, participation, philanthropy, philosophy, public and voluntary and community sectors, self education, socal care, social business, social audio and online media, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurship, social inclusion, social innovation, social enterprise and giving communities voice, social enterprise/ start-ups/international development, social ventures, startup consulting, sustainability, third sector, training, young people, yoga and the arts of creating peace through personal well being., web development, web accessibility, web 2.0, walking, local business