Co-Production Collective: a new co-pro community

It’s no secret that we’re big champions of co-production here at the Ideas Alliance. So when we heard about Co-Production Collective, a new co-produced community of co-producers, we just had to find out more!
#COVIDConversations, a digital storytelling project capturing everyday experiences of people across Europe
Stories are the way we understand and make sense of our world. #COVIDConversations is a digital storytelling project providing a platform for sharing everyday experiences of the pandemic from voices seldom heard.
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.
Covid Considerations: Sharing our realities

Covid-19 has compelled us to share our stories with each other and in doing so is helping us to be more understanding and kinder to one another. Anna Eaton wants us to keep doing this after lockdown and beyond.
Covid Considerations: Life and death in the midst of Covid-19

Cat Duncan-Rees explores what opportunites the coronavirus crisis might offer whilst navigating personal loss and seeing first-hand health and care systems being rapidly transformed.
How shifting mindsets helps shift power

Nicola Wood (Tameside & Glossop NHS) writes the 5th in our Greater Manchester series of blogs exploring person and community centred heath and social care.
Joining the Dots To Create A Stronger Community

The third blog in our Greater Manchester series looks at Stockport council’s efforts to democratise their process of collaboration.
Three inspiring charities who have mastered digital storytelling

Storytelling is a powerful way of helping charity work. Robin Forrester looks at three charities who use storytelling to great effect.
Fun Palaces: fostering culture and community

We spent a lot of 2019 thinking about co-production in the arts and we want to begin 2020 with the same creativity at the front of our minds. Creativity in a community setting encourages togetherness and often the sharing of valuable skills to nurture arts and sciences at a grassroots level. We were delighted to […]