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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
Understanding Measuring Change: a new blog by Local Trust
/in Evaluation, Learning events/by MaryLocal Trust recently published a blog featuring the recent series of events that they commissioned Just Ideas and WSA Community Consultants to develop and deliver. We worked with participants from Big Local areas to demystify ‘evaluation’ by sharing experience of measuring change, and exploring a theory of change.
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Working with InterClimate Network to inspire climate action in schools
/in Facilitation, Learning events/by MaryAgainst the backdrop of today’s Global Day of climate action – and stark climate headlines over the Summer – at Just Ideas we look forward to supporting this Autumn’s Model Climate Conferences with InterClimate Network (ICN), which will run in Reading, Cheltenham, Bristol, Solihull and London.
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Rethinking Home – our work with Local Trust on engaging transient communities
/in Evaluation, Learning events/by MaryThe increasing movement and ‘churn’ of people within Big Local areas are major challenges to community development, placing pressures on social cohesion. Just Ideas worked with Local Trust and a range of Big Local areas between January and March 2019 on this research into the experience of, and potential for, Big Local areas to engage with ‘new’ or transient groups or communities in their areas.
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“How do we know we’re making a difference?”
/in Evaluation, Learning events/by Richard UsherThis was the question that motivated Big Local areas from all over England to come to four training events facilitated by Just Ideas in Birmingham, Bristol and York for Local Trust! Each event brought together Big Local partnerships to share their experience of measuring change in their communities, sorting outputs from outcomes and indicators from evidence.
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Powerful stories for change – NCD Alliance Training, Geneva, May 2018
/in Learning events/by Richard UsherIt was an incredible privilege, facilitating a two-day course with WSA Community Consultants for an inspirational group of people living with non-communicable diseases (NCDs), supporting them in their roles as advocates and campaigners for the rights and voices of people suffering as a result of NCDs.
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The importance of being personal
/in Organisational learning/by Richard UsherSince we started out in 2007 relationships have been central to Just Ideas’ work. We are a small company – just the two of us as employees, yet we work on projects with and for multinational NGOs, through to small local charities. The partnership way of working enables us to work as part of other organisations’ teams on particular projects; and also to draw people in to work as part of our team on a project.
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