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Roots of Reggae is a social enterprise that will bring together people from different generations and backgrounds to develop a shared appreciation of reggae music and culture. Roots of Reggae will will highlight and honour the contribution older generations have made to reggae and provide an inclusive space for people of all ages to meet and socialise over some great music. In doing so, Roots of Reggae provides a positive, creative solution to a number of complex social challenges, including: - Social isolation and Depression - Lower levels of participation in cultural activities amongst older people - (Lack of) understanding and respect between generations, exemplified by older people's fear of younger people and negative stereotyping of both older and younger people. - Levels of positive contact between people from different backgrounds
francisclarke - 11/28/2011
Attercliffe is a de-indutrialsed part of a major UK City, Sheffield.The idea is to carry out major commercial property development within a Development Trust so that long term income from the projects can be used to address social needs. The model is relevant for all communities.
conrad - 11/28/2011
Building a community of IT professionals and learners who want to improve society and themselves.
Mihai - 11/28/2011
A creative media website aimed at providing students & creative types with a place to showcase their talents through a range of fun projects & activities.
Tim - 11/27/2011
GiftPunk is a simple tool for communities to broadcast needs and offers using Twitter.
webisteme - 11/22/2011
The idea takes its roots from my in-progress PhD research, which title is "Questa casa non รจ un albergo" (literally "This house is not a hotel").
angela - 11/21/2011
Imagine reaching not only consensus but commitment to action within one hour to achieve an idealistic objective which has a social manifestation within a week. This is the action cycle. It is super-lean business practice.
david - 11/17/2011
Real value traineeships, promoting reuse and recycling and reinvigorating upholstery.
Laura - 04/20/2011
TILT designs inspiring and enabling spaces through the end users, actively involving them in all stages of the process, from the initial design to the actual making of the space. TILT believes that spaces both public and private need to better reflect the needs of their users and this can be achieved through effective collaborative design.
Dermot - 03/29/2011
The Good Gym finds meaningful ways for people to exercise, like visiting older people in their homes or helping to clear a room in a community centre.
Mark - 03/16/2011
Do you have an idea on how to improve your neighbourhood or your local services? Do you want to win the chance of getting people to turn your idea into reality?
Noel - 09/29/2011
We at the Local Government Information Unit have spare office space for two years in a central London location (near Euston). We are interested in providing a flexible place where social enterprises would get together and share ideas. In particular, current or past local government employees who are developing mutuals or cooperatives to provide public services.If any organisations or individuals would like to bid for the space please contact us.
Andy - 09/15/2011
Email : sarah.wixey@jmp.co.uk
Organization : JMP
Role : Associate
Interests : Social inclusion, accessibility, sustainable travel, physical activity, healthy lifestyles, equity and social justice., ageing well, anthropology, apps, book sharing, changing the way we grow and manufacture our food., cities, citizen engagement, civic engagement, co-creation, co-design, collaborative decision making, community, community engagement, community mapping, connecting social innovators with great resources, creativity, cycling, deaf, design for all, disability, disabled people, entrepreneurship, general innovation around making the environment more accessible for everyone, health and wellbeing, inclusion, local food systems, local government, mental health, mapping, migrants, networking, older people, poverty, psychology, pubic policy, public engagement, public sector innovation, regeneration, schools, social entrepreneurs, social innovation and innovative policy making, sustainability, third sector, travel, urban planning, urban spaces, web 2.0, young people
Email : russell@preselipartnerships.com
Organization : Preseli
Role : Director
Interests : collaboration, coaching, community development, complex and multiple needs, entrepreneurship, ethical business practice, health and wellbeing, mentoring, open source, open space, participatory decision making, problem solving, realising potential, social innvoation, solution focused, startups, sustainability, strategy, usability, Making a difference, new ideas, social entrepreneurship
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 : Saith
Role :
Interests : Graphic Design, arts education, access city, apps, asset transfer, assistive equipment, bid of first., child protection, cities, citizen engagement/voice, usability, urban spaces
Organization : Simpl
Role : Community Organizer
Interests : art history, biodiversity, climate change, climate change; environmental issues; overpopulation, community development, energy conservation, empty buildings, ethical fashion, food, futuregov, global sustainable development, heritage/history, local food systems, museums, pop up shops, programmes for sustainable development, the great outdoors, urban planning, urban spaces
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Organization :
Role : Projects
Interests : action, and social change, anthropological studies, anthropology, apps, app store, art, arts, arts education, arts funding, asset transfer, big society, career guidance, challenge competition, change, citizen engagement, citizen engagement/voice, citizen journalism, city space, civic engagement, co-creation, co-design, co-production, co-working, collaboration, collaborative, collaborative consumption, collaborative decision making, collaborative governance, collaborative technologies, commissioning, commons, communications, communities, communities of practice, community, community assets / transfer, community buildings, community development, community management / ownership, community mapping, community media, community solutions, complexity, connecting social innovators with great resources, consumer research, consumption, creative industries, creativity, crowdsourcing, culture, culture change, democracy, design, design thinking, digital tech, disruption, doing more with less, empowerment, enabling spaces, empty buildings, engagement, entertainment and community events, entrepreneurship, event facilitation, forecasting, get togethers, government, graphic design, helping people into work, high/low/sub/all culture, human services, incentive structures, innovation, innovation platforms, innovation problem solving, innovators, intercultural communication, local, local economies, local food systems, localgov, local government, local government communities, london, london 2012, mapping, mutual education, networks, network society, new forms and styles of work, nudge, olympic legacy, opengov, open government, open innovation, open source sharing, organically grown public services, our society, participation, participative design., participatory budgeting, politics, poverty, public engagement, public participation, public policy, public sector, public service, public sector innovation, public service reform, public services, public spaces, public value, real world and online engagement, service design, shared understanding, social app store, social business, social change, social design and thinking, social enterprise, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurship, social innovation, social interaction, social network analysis, social networking, social networks, social practices, social reporting, visual thinking
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Organization : Boston City Hall
Role : Co-Chair, Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics
Interests : work, 21stcc, access city, accessibility, action, adaptive technology, affordable homeownership for low income households, ageing well, agencies, and social change, a new govxo-driven republic!, anthropological studies, anthropology, apis, arts education, arts, app store, apps, assistive equipment, assistive technology, authentic collaboration and uncommon sense, autism, big society, change, channel development, children, cities, citizen engagement, citizen engagement/voice, citizen journalism, city space, civic engagement, co-design, co-creation, collaboration, co-working, co-production, collaborative, collaborative consumption, collaborative decision making, collaborative governance, web development, web design, web 2.0, visual thinking, using ideas and evidence to drive social innovation, user experience design, 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, tech, technology, startups, start ups, startup consulting
Organization : TribalCoding
Role : Founder
Interests : spacerace, programming, project and programme mgmt, it, agile
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
Organization : City of Westminster
Role : Principal Economic Development Officer
Interests : accessibility, arts funding, assets, asset transfer, big society, business startups, business support, business value, city space, collaborative decision making, community development, creative industries, enterprise development, innovators, long term unemployed, socail entrepreneruiship