Ideas Alliance CIC

🥳 Ideas Alliance are thrilled to hear that the government will be funding Family Hubs beyond March 2025 🥳 For the past 2.5 years we have been supporting local authorities to embed co-production across their Family Hub networks and we’re excited to continue making impactful change. Through our work we have helped Family Hubs to involve seldom heard families in the design and delivery of services. Infant feeding, perinatal-mental health services, peer support, and parent infant relationship teams have all benefited from asset-based approaches where families voices are not only heard but are actively involved in co-designing the local offers. We’ve also been delighted to share our learning through Anna Freud National Centre for Family Hubs conference and regional communities of practice, Halton Borough Council's Family Hubs conference, Calderdale Council, and at the upcoming Local Government Association webinar. We’re looking forward to collaborating further with parents and carers using inclusive and creative methods such as participatory research, action learning, communities of practice, and participatory budgeting. Watch this space for more updates 👀 hello@ideas-alliance.org.uk

🚨Exciting things are coming soon from one of our founding Directors Linda Hutchinson. A practical guide to alliance contracting is on the way 📖! #collaborativecommissioning #alliancecontracting

Help Tessa Basson and I plan our FREE, prize-packed event for social enterprise day, with thanks to GMCVO for funding it 💖 Pop into The Lighthouse, our social change networking group and cast your vote! https://lnkd.in/eAfq_b47 Please share Bolton CVS Action Together Bury VCFA Greater Manchester Moving School for Social Entrepreneurs Ideas Alliance CIC NCVO

🚂 London-bound, ready for a day exploring the future of family support… Really looking forward to The National Centre for Family Hubs conference, hearing from all these brilliant people doing brilliant things. Excited to share about the work that Ideas Alliance CIC have been doing with Calderdale Council to put communities and co-design at the heart of Family Hubs.

We are happy to be an event supporter for The King's Fund upcoming prevention event in October 2024. Be a part of inclusive, thought-provoking discussions and explore the importance of focusing on prevention to meet population needs, and how to create healthier communities at pace. Join us on Wednesday 16 October 2024: https://lnkd.in/ecwMYkAX  #KFPrevention #earlyintervention #thrivingcommunities #wellbeing

Our Director Lucie Stephens has written a blog for IPPO on early education and childcare and what’s needed in the future (spoiler alert - lots more co-production with children, parents, early years professionals and providers, unions and local, regional and national government). https://lnkd.in/eJQ_Ew9i

😔 Monday morning slump? 😔 Not here! We can definitely recommend a good dose of community research to blow away the weekend cobwebs and kick the week off in a positive way 🤩 Liz and Kate had the pleasure of joining our 6 new researchers as they begin their journey to co-design Calderdale’s Parent Infant Relationship service. We talked about their hopes for the training, their individual strengths and collective skills, and soaked up the power of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s ‘The Danger of a Single Story’. It was an insightful and uplifting morning! And the pastries weren’t half bad either… 🥐 ☕️

📢 "Unmuting those voices whose microphones have been turned off for so long" This was the response from one of our new community researchers when we asked what excites her most about the role. It highlights the power of participatory research to seek out and share the stories of seldom heard communities. Adelle is joining 5 other new community researchers as part of our most recent project in Calderdale to support the Parent Infant Relationship team with the development of their service. The community researchers have a diverse range of lived experiences and are connected to a diverse range of communities across Calderdale. Together – in collaboration with practitioners from the PIR team – they’ll be co-designing a discussion guide which will frame the conversations they’ll be having with parents. We’re excited to follow their journey and discover how the research will help shape the service going forward. We’ll share progress on here. In the meantime, do get in touch if you’re keen to chat further about how participatory research can bring people’s voices into policy, service design and decision-making. hello@ideas-alliance.org.uk Calderdale Council Liz Leach Murphy Kerry Tottingham Adelle A'asante

⭐ What assets exist in your local community? ⭐ Co-production is about discovering just that. It's about connecting people, places and spaces to understand just what is possible when everyone comes together. We're continuing to support Adam Hindhaugh, MBA NPQICL CMgr FCMI and the Halton Family Hubs team on their co-production journey and yesterday morning's 'Asks, Offers and Connections' session was a great example of what can be achieved together 🤩

Brilliant to see how people working within the Family Hubs approach in Halton are supporting one another and making a difference for children and families.