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My campaign site, thecreativecrip.com (and my nom de plume) was borne of the frustration in trying to become self-employed having become disabled and exhausted my redundancy savings. The of aim this project has always been to chronicle my thoughts and experiences as an entrepreneur trying to successfully grow a business despite the limitations of physical, mental and invisible disabilities. I don’t want to carry on living my life as it is now – becoming disabled and needing benefits is not a lifestyle choice, especially given the not insignificant skills and experience I’ve gained from nearly 25 years working on Wall Street and in The City of London. The reality is proving to be quite different to the idea. I have spent the better part of two years floundering, barely keeping my head above water as I begged for help and fought to not be forced into the usual dead-end workfare schemes. I have received very little in the way of factual, practical help.
Lisa - 03/08/2012
There is the chance to collaboratively & creatively rethink how Library services are delivered to meet the needs of local communities.
Chris - 04/06/2011
Organization : Marsh Farm Outreach
Role : Director
Interests : activism, affordable homeownership for low income households, asset transfer, big society, catalytic social change, changing the way we grow and manufacture our food., change, citizen engagement/voice, citizen engagement, citizenship, civic engagement, civil rights, collaboration, co-working, collaborative, collaborative decision making, collaborative governance, collaborative technologies, communities, community activism, community assets / transfer, community buildings, community development, community development trusts, community engagement, community engagement; design; youth leadership; personal development; sustainability, community hosts, community management / ownership, community media, community organisation, community solutions, conscious consumers, doing more with less, emancipation, enterprise development, grassroots projects, grassroots projects to empower communities, helping people into work, inclusion, innovation for inclusion, local economic development, local economies, new economics, organisation, outreach, participative design., participatory budgeting, permaculture, public and voluntary and community sectors, renewable energy, self education, social business, social change, social enterprise, social enterprise and giving communities voice, social inclusion, social innovation, social innovation and innovative policy making, social innvoation, social interaction, unemployment, urban co-production, volunteer, volunteering, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurship
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Interests : activism, anthropology, apis, augmented reality, co-design, civic engagement, collaboration, community organisation, culture, drupal, e-participation, ecology, eco projects, equity and social justice., game-changing, grassroots projects to empower communities, anarchism, socialism, liberalism, information technology, music, mutual education, networks, new technology, open data, open government, open innovation, open source, planning, politics, sustainability, 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
Organization : Voluntary Action Islington
Role : Chief Executive
Interests : Volunterring , community organisation, community engagement
Organization : feelancer
Role : listener/learner/facilitator
Interests : appreciative inquiry, apps, asset map, careers training and education, citizen engagement, citizen engagement/voice, citizen journalism, citizenship, city space, civic empowerment and deliberative democracy, co-creation, co-design, co-learining, co-working, coaching, collaboration, commons, communities of practice, community development, community mapping, community media, complexity, contemporary art and culture, counselling, creating, data visualisation, design-thinking, development (personal; efficacy; confidence; skills), dancing, education, general innovation around making the environment more accessible for everyone, hackspace, healing arts, interaction design, lifelong learning, life skills, life development, local, mapping, mental health, micro-volunteering, micro enterprise, motivation, neighbourhood, new forms and styles of work, open government, organisational behaviour, participative design., performing arts, personal development, pop up shops, prototyping, service design, social algorithms, social enterprises, social innovation camp, social work, sustainable social innovation and design research. specialising in consumer behaviours online and providing new collaborative environments for both corporations and consumers. following the belief that the more complex the world becomes the more creative we need to be and that for a sustainable future and business environment what is required is the ability to be creative, temporary accommodation, town centres, transparency, visualisation, volunteerism, wellbeing
Email : themagicwillhappen@gmail.com
Organization : Rise Up UK
Role : Founder
Interests : business startups, Benefits Camp, Disability, Social Enterprise, Micro Enterprise, Disabled People User Led Organisation, development (personal; efficacy; confidence; skills), digital inclusion, digital campaigning, designer, FutureGov, digital innovation, disabled people, disability arts, work creation, writing, welfare reform, welfare to work, web development, web technology, web design, web accessibility, visual arts, using ideas and evidence to drive social innovation, social justice, social innvoation, making a difference, internet solutions, interactivism, interactive design, innovation for inclusion, innovation - through the use of technology., information technology, graphic design, government, Mental Health, Invisible Illness, crowdfunding, design thinking, design for social and economic renewal, digital literacy, digital technology, disabled, empowerment, entepreneur, enterprise development, equal opportunities
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 : Stockport Metropoplitan Borough Council
Role : Corporate Policy Officer
Interests : Organisational change
Email : v.e.honore@sms.ed.ac.uk
Organization : University of Edinburgh
Role : PhD Researcher
Interests : Philanthropy, Organisational Behaviour, Community Development, Voluntary Action
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
Email : ben@brightone.org.uk
Organization : Bright One
Role : Founding Director
Interests : applications, apps, big society, branding, business startups, business support, business value, careers, career guidance, challenge competition, change, city space, citizenship, co-design, co-creation, co-working, co-production, collaborative, collaborative consumption, collaborative decision making, collaborative governance, collective intelligence, collaborative technologies, communication, communications, communities, community, community engagement, community management / ownership, community media, community profit, community organisation, community sector, digital inclusion, enterprise, entrepreneurship, fundraising, funding, inclusive business and architecture, innovation platforms, innovation problem solving, innovators, inspiration, internet solutions, marketing solutions, media, marketing, london, mobile, open enterprise, open innovation, open source, philanthropy, social, social audio and online media, social business, social change, social enterprise, social enterprise/ start-ups/international development, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurship, social gaming, social innovation, social innvoation, social media, social venture, social venturing, startup, startups, start ups, startup consulting, strategy, tech, technology, third sector, volunteerism, volunteering