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Joyful, playful and creative - engaging our heads and hearts: that’s Eve Holt’s excellent advice for engaging communities in tackling polarising issues. The success of Right to the Streets speaks to the power of her approach! #StrongerThings

Beautifully and powerfully put, as usual, by Ruth Ibegbuna 👇🏻

We’d love to share our learning - and hear yours - about the real life work of building community-powered systems by starting with culture, realising agency, and growing power 👇🏻 #StongerThings

Three cheers and three challenges from me on yesterday’s King’s Speech and what it’s going take to fix ‘broken Britain’👇🏻 innovationunit.org/thoughts/kings… Innovation_Unit The Fabian Society Keir Starmer Demos

Fantastic to hear James Timpson talking about bringing the voices of lived experience into decision-making: lessons from Timpson into government. Big thanks to Revolving Doors @ItsGroundswell Humankind for an inspiring event to kick off #Lab24 Innovation_Unit

Great to hear Jim McMahon MP committing passionately to further English devolution so “communities can crack on and do what’s needed in their area” 👏🏻 Thanks (CLES) Centre for Local Economic Strategies for convening a great panel to explore how to deliver the ‘devolution revolution’ #Lab24 Innovation_Unit

Wowser, pretty amazing buzz for the start of the third #GMLiveWell event on growing community power! ⁦Innovation_Unit⁩

High ambition from Alison Mckenzie-Folan to kick off #GMLiveWell today: 🗣️ “How can we radically change our public services to put more power and decision-making in the hands of communities…and less in the reactive end of our systems?” Innovation_Unit

Absolutely brilliant opening from Alison Mckenzie-Folan including importance of 💭self reflecting as leaders and institutions on what we need to do differently to bring power and decision-making closer to people and tackle inequalities. #GMLiveWell movement. Key principles from Wigan:

Alison McKenzie-Folan, portfolio lead for Live Well GM, welcoming everyone to 3rd #GMLiveWell event: “shift and acceleration from where we’ve been, to a larger scale ambition for hard-edged reform of public services – with communities and VCFSE sector at the heart”

Great story-telling from Tabz O’Brien @GMLiveWell to explain why decision-making, VCSFE funding and leadership practice in public services need to change to unleash community power 🔋 ⁦Innovation_Unit⁩

🗣️ “The thing that makes all this community-powered work happen is that these people really care” ⁦Elephants Trail⁩ #GMLiveWell

🗣️ “Why have a meeting when you can have a party?”🎈 …best insight on reforming governance and decision-making from Middleton Cooperating …with huge respect for Elephants Trail for another brilliant film on community power #GMLiveWell

Very powerful theme of bringing together unheard voices, and creating platforms for them to be heard as the foundation of community power 🗣️👂 Thanks GM Shapers #GMLiveWell ⁦Innovation_Unit⁩

Imagine.. a benefit system that works with people, for people, to lift them up rather than trip them up. Brilliant to hear from Liz Kendall, Andy Burnham, Bev Craig, Caroline Simpson @Markfisher. Superbly hosted by Liz, Sam and Nika. Really does feel like GM is on the cusp of

What a day! National and regional commitment ⁦Liz Kendall⁩ ⁦Mayor of Greater Manchester⁩ & ⁦Bev Craig⁩ to revolutionise employment support to “Lift people up, not trip them up” putting power in the hands of communities to design and deliver what’s needed. 👏🏻#GMLiveWell

Wonderful, inspiring opening from ⁦Sara Todd⁩ at #solace emphasising the power of shared purpose across everyone working in a place to tackle inequalities - from residents to businesses, local authorities to football teams ⚽️ ⁦Innovation_Unit⁩

Powerful, pragmatic principles from Dr Khadija Owusu Solace on embedding real inclusion in any organisation: 🏁 Start where you are 🙏🏻 Use what you’ve got 👏🏻 Do what you can I will take that back to Innovation_Unit to test whether we are doing our best on all these.

Thank you Dr Khadija Owusu, also found this extremely helpful…. Nurturing diverse talent means all of your team having: A mentor A coach A sponsor Different, complementary, all critical 👏🏻 Innovation_Unit Solace

🗣️“It’s not just about the decision, it’s about what we leave behind afterwards” Quote of the day so far at #SolaceSummit from Monique Davidson of Horowhenua District Council in NZ. Reaching resolution on polarising issues is about bringing all sides on the journey 🤝