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- Berkshire Local Nature Recovery Strategy workshops – registration is open!19th March 2024 - 11:08 am
- Sharing highlights from Just Ideas’ 2023 review of the year17th January 2024 - 5:43 pm
- Guest blog: Inspiring Change – Reflections on the Reading Schools Climate Conference 202319th December 2023 - 8:46 am
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Berkshire Local Nature Recovery Strategy workshops – registration is open!
/in Company information, Facilitation, Learning events, Learning resource, News, Partnership development/by MaryWe are delighted to be working with Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead (RBWM) to deliver these workshops next month across Berkshire, engaging communities in developing the Local Nature Recovery Strategy for Berkshire. If you’re in Berkshire, please join us at your nearest event – or for the online workshop – and do spread the word.
Thank you.
Book your place here: Public Engagement Events | Eventbrite
Sharing highlights from Just Ideas’ 2023 review of the year
/in Community development, Company information, Facilitation, Frontpage Article, Learning events, News/by MaryEmpowering Patient Voice: Showcasing our work with NHS England
A big part of what Just Ideas do is to grow the voices, confidence and influence of individuals working and volunteering within community engagement roles. This includes delivering training for patient voice representatives – volunteers who share their lived experience – within NHS England.
Working with our long term partner organisation – WSA Associates – we are commissioned by NHS England to deliver training which supports these Patient and Public Voice (PPV) partners to grow their influence and impact in role.
NHS commissioners have a legal duty to ‘make arrangements’ to involve the public in commissioning. Consequently PPV partners work within all parts of the NHS to aid the development and delivery of services across healthcare.
The training that Just Ideas and WSA deliver has evolved over time, including moving online in 2020, and has continued to be well received by those who attend. The value to them is in the connections built with other PPV partners, as well as with the NHS staff who attend.
For more information on our work with NHS England, please visit the 2023 Annual Review
To discuss your organisation’s facilitation and training needs and how we can help please contact us.
Guest blog: Inspiring Change – Reflections on the Reading Schools Climate Conference 2023
/in Facilitation, Learning events, News/by MaryIn 2023 our work with InterClimate Network (ICN) has scaled up due to the formation of a team of climate conference associate facilitators. We have worked with ICN to expand the conferences delivered to include a range of formats, hosted by individual schools, as well as in town halls across England.
The 10th Reading schools’ climate conference was held in December, organised and facilitated by the Just Ideas’ team. Here Just Ideas’ associate and guest blogger Farid Abdurrahman (pictured) shares his reflections on the day:
To find out more about hosting a Model Climate Conference please get in touch
New Report for Local Trust: ‘Building Community Leadership’
/in Community development, Company information, Evaluation, Facilitation, News, Organisational learning, Partnership development/by MaryWe’re delighted to share the publication of ‘Building Community Leadership’ the culmination of work with IVAR as evaluation and learning partners to Local Trust’s Community Leadership Academy (CLA).
Learning from the experience of participants and delivery partners over the last three years, the report sheds light on how the CLA supported individuals in communities to take action during the difficult years of Covid-19, and what will be needed in future to take forward this learning and sustain community leadership.
Learn more about our work with IVAR as learning evaluation partners for Local Trust’s CLA on our blog here
Blog for Local Trust: Time to Reflect and Recharge
/in Community development, Company information, Evaluation, Facilitation, News, Organisational learning, Partnership development/by MaryIn a blog for Local Trust, Director Richard Usher has written about Just Ideas’ role as delivery partner for the Local Trust ‘Reflect Recharge‘ support offer.
This facilitated support package gives Big Local partnerships the space to reflect on their achievements to date as well as inviting deeper thinking about what support is needed in the final phase of Big Local.
Reflect Recharge aims to build momentum and capacity, but crucially acknowledges the huge achievements of resident volunteers in Big Locals across the country:
Richard reflects: “There’s been a great response from the Big Locals we’ve worked with so far, who really appreciate having some time to consider bigger picture stuff and working with us responding to their immediate needs. Reflect Recharge gives that all too infrequent space to reflect on achievements in the community but also to look ahead and tackle any challenges in the final years of the Big Local programme.”
Read more in the Local Trust blog and in our 2022 Annual Review.
Launching the Just Ideas Annual Review of 2022
/in Company information, Frontpage Article, News/by MaryMycelium: the underground network of branching fungal threads that heal the soil and facilitate the sharing of nutrients between plants and trees.
In a whistle stop tour of our 15th year, the cover image * of the 2022 Just Ideas’ annual review depicts mycelium, reflecting this year’s theme of growth. Growth through networking and partnership. Growth through branching out. Growth through development of knowledge and understanding.
Not only has Just Ideas grown, we’re also deeply grateful to have supported others as they grow. We’ve valued our collaboration with so many brilliant people and organisations in 2022.
In the spirit of sharing tools and information, we’ve linked to examples and approaches which we hope you and your teams find helpful.
For more information about how we can work together in 2023 please contact us.
* Thank you to Natalie Ganpatsingh of Nature Nurture for the wonderful artwork.