Bringing digital arts innovations to St Helens – Artist Brief

Ideas Alliances are working with St Helens Libraries to deliver an action research project that is investigating ‘What does a digital offer look like for St Helens?’. As part of this piece of work, we want to commission a creative digital arts project – inviting innovative ideas for how our increasingly digital society might affect […]
Interview with Spaces of Hope Founder, Matthew Barber-Rowell

Matthew tells us about his favourite piece of work, his best mistake and how Spaces of Hope hopes to make a difference during the UK’s second wave of Covid.
Kindness at the Heart of Rochdale

Sarah Pearce (Action Together in Rochdale) shares her experiences of innovating the processes of collaboration through compassion and kindness.
Love the way you Lye: How community story-telling and partnership changed the town’s image

Read our new document produced in collaboration with Dudley Council and the residents of Lye. It’s an example of the impact of community storytelling!
Data for the people: a co-designed solution

The Bristol Approach empowers people to use tech and data through a model for collecting public information that is inclusive, transparent and relevant.
The City is a Home: Building social infrastructure with rough sleepers

Throughout the past three years I’ve been working in a variety of health and social care settings as a consultant and community storyteller. I’ve met a lot of voluntary and public sector organisations working with people experiencing homelessness in the UK and felt inspired by their work. Recently, Sadiq Khan called for an increase in […]
A Community With Energy

The Low Carbon Hub work with schools, businesses, and communities in Oxfordshire, UK to generate clean energy whilst reinvesting in the local economy.
RHS Bridgewater, a champion garden for health and collaboration

The Royal Horticultural Society are teaming up with award-winning Landscape Architect Tom Stuart-Smith to create a huge public green space for 2020.
Making Manchester: Design Studio Involve 1,000 Members of the Public in Making 2,000 Tiles

A great example of people being engaged through free workshops to contribute towards creating artwork and props for the city’s international festival.