Meetings and events – turning coproduction rhetoric into reality
Linda Hutchinson shares her experiences and a list of tips to help ensure that meetings and events positively contribute to your co-production practice.
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The Art of Coproduction – A Guerrilla Guide
We celebrate the launch of a guerrilla guide to coproduction. Whether you're new or experienced this is an invaluable source of all things coproduced!
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Guest blog – Co-production, our daily bread
In celebration of co-production week, Jane Salazar writes about her experiences and shares practical insights about how to do co-production differently.
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Nationwide’s Oakfield Campus: How the community can revolutionise housing developments
Nationwide's Oakfield Campus is revolutionising how we implement co-design and emphasise community at the heart of housing development projects.
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A safe place to have fun with no judgement: Talibah Rivers tells us what it means to lead a Tuneless Choir
Maria Passingham interviews Talibah Rivers, a professional singer who started tuneless choirs to improve community wellbeing through singing
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Event: Research co-production – what it is and how to do it?
Our thoughts on the common themes, ideas and tips from the British Medical Journal and Royal Society of Medicine's event on co-producing a research project.
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Theatre of Progress: Mind the Gap’s ZARA, an eye opening performance
An incredible large scale production with a cast of over 100, a giant mechanical baby, tanks and cherry pickers shines a spotlight on the experiences of parents with learning disabilities.
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Guest blog – The real reasons we still don’t co-produce
Alex Fox OBE shares an article from his personal blog which exposes some of the barriers to building co-production into the public sector.
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Mind the Gap: affecting social change through learning disability theatre
We spoke to Julia Skelton, Executive Director of the visionary theatre company Mind the Gap about inspiration, collaboration and their new production ZARA.
Arts, Case Study, Children and Young People, Co-production, Collaboration, Community Engagement, Interview, Learning Disabilities, Mental Health, Theatre
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Amazing animated film about foodbanks co-created by young people wins film awards
The film is a great example of how we can tell important stories together and how these stories are even more powerful when they are told, made and shared by those affected by the issues the stories are about.
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Idea of the Month: contact before content
Contact before content is a theme of asset based community development and one I think should be remembered and reflected on when starting out on any project.
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Interview with Sue Sheehan, Incredible Edible Lambeth
We caught up with Sue Sheehan, co-founder of Incredible Edible Lambeth and learned all about urban food growing and building the community.
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