Social isolation is a key requirement towards promoting wellbeing and preventing undue pressure on public services, such as costly hospital admissions. With an elderly mother of my own who is increasingly needing care at home it’s a subject close to my heart. Not least because of my passion for Participatory Budgeting (PB), that aims to include citizen voice, and can reduce social isolation whenever and wherever public money is being spent.
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Realistic Medicine – helping to improve health and social care in Scotland
Realistic Medicine’, which is about making sure our health services are personalised – so that they respond to everyone’s needs. Members of the Citizens’ Jury will discuss one aspect of Realistic Medicine, share opinions and discuss ideas before trying to agree a set of recommendations.
Inquiry into the Challenge of Care at Home
Keeping safe, happy and well in their home is one of the biggest challenges faced by individuals, their families, the NHS and local authorities, this is your opportunity to make a real difference.
Blackpool Far North and Blackpool South Health and Wellbeing Inquiries
‘for people living in Blackpool Far North what are the main things that affect people’s health and well-being and what can be done about them?’
We have spent 12 months working with Public Health Blackpool and The Blackpool Clinical Commissioning Group. The second and third inquiries addressing the main things that affect people’s health and wellbeing and what can be done to address them have been completed
Literature Review of Citizen Led Deliberation Processes
This document takes a snapshot of relevant literature to discuss the features of citizens juries, their use (both in Scotland, England and internationally) and the Scottish context for running such a deliberative process.
Shared Future Annual Report October 2017
We are pleased to present our 2016 – 2017 Annual Report. Having achieved a good level of stability we are excited about the future; building on our current portfolio and seeing what as yet unexplored opportunities are open to us. As ever the coming year promises more interesting and exciting work and we look forward to continuing our engagement with stakeholders, associates and clients, old and new.
Can you help us with our exciting new project in Manchester?
We are delighted to be working with Greater Manchester Talent Match and Reason Digital carrying out a piece of work developing an online employment support tool and reviewing the current Opportunities Hub.
Unique and exciting opportunity for a North West based Non-Executive Director
This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a company focusing on worthwhile, exciting and innovative projects in a wide variety of localities.
Say Hello and Say Goodbye
Our associate pool is expanding, with the recent of addition of Martin Wells, Amanda Preece and Phil Murphy, and we also say goodbye to long term associate and ex-SFCIC director Mandy Naylor.
Working with us since our earliest days, Mandy will be sorely missed by us all, and we wish her the very best in her new role.
Solid as a rock, or brittle as broken glass
Now in its 9th year, the Citizen Participation University (CPU) is an annual gathering of community activists, organisers and developers, from across Europe, but also reaching out to the USA and into Turkey. Over 50 people came together, for 4 days, to talk, act out and share their best practice. A real powerhouse of community inspiration, and a rare opportunity to think outside of our boxes.
The Central Blackpool Health and Wellbeing Inquiry
This citizen led inquiry was commissioned by Blackpool Council’s Public Health department as a way of finding out what local residents think after an intense period of deliberation, where they were given the chance to share experiences and opinions, to challenge each other and to question a range of professionals before writing their own recommendations on what needs to happen.