A new government is in place, ready to try and rebuild Britain. Key to it all, is how we centre people and their lived experience at the heart of this work. TSIP founder Stephen Bediako OBE shares his perspective on why participatory approaches are a crucial tool in doing so.
Read MoreThe community gathered in Dene Community Centre in Peckham for the occasion, sharing homemade food and stories of how The Giving Lab has impacted them. Serena and John, two of the Lab’s community champions, reflect on the event and discuss what’s next for The Lab.
Read MoreWe spoke to John Whelan, The Giving Lab’s Community Outreach and Engagement Lead and resident of Southwark, who delivers creative events to help The Giving Lab reach diverse communities in Walworth, build their trust, and unlock the issues that affect them most.
Read MoreAfter 26 years of community work, Walworth resident and organiser Sylvia Raven felt disillusioned with the funding landscape, that never seemed to truly listen to the needs of its grantees. Then she met Serena from the Giving Lab.
Read MoreBuilding trust amongst local residents is integral to delivering a place-based community-led fund. But how do you make sure everybody’s heard, and no one gets left behind? We spoke to Serena Dyett, Engagement & Outreach Lead at The Giving Lab, to get her thoughts.
Read MoreThe transformative power of storytelling and its potential to bring about change has been at the forefront of our thinking at TSIP. Learn more about why we set up the Community Storytelling Network in partnership with On Our Radar.
Read More2023 is coming to an end. As we wrap up for the year and prepare to log off for a much-needed rest, we’re reflecting on the incredible progress of the past year and sharing a glimpse of the exciting things that lie ahead in 2024.
Read MoreTSIP has been acting as a learning partner to the Royal College of Nursing as they transition from an organisational culture of “advocacy and servicing” to an “organising” approach. But what does that mean in practice - and why does it matter?
Read MoreFollowing the launch of our new strategy in June 2022, we’ve been taking a critical look at how we deliver a governance model that reflects our ambition for reimagining a fair society, and we are delighted to welcome our five new non-executive members.
Read MoreOur Head of Service Design & Co-Production Marion Brossard reflects on what we’ve learned in our journey towards systems innovation so far, how this has influenced TSIP’s Theory of Change, and what it means to put humanity at the centre of it.
Read MoreDuring our third and final roundtable in a series of events to celebrate TSIP's new strategy on reimagining a fair society, we explored the topic of redistribution. Together with our partners, community members and funders, we discussed why redistribution is integral to creating a fairer society and what we can do to make it happen fairly and justly.
Read MoreThe Giving Lab hosted its Summer Festival to celebrate the amazing TGL community and their unique talents. Community members showcased their TGL funded services at pop-up booths, providing handmade food, wellness crafts, health check-ins, AI-led personal training, and more. Read this blog to be transported to the incredible event.
Read MoreWhilst working in the climate justice space, TSIP have always questioned why those who are most affected are rarely heard. In this piece we explore our partnership approach to amplifying unheard voices.
Read MoreTSIP worked with Toynbee Hall to evaluate their pilot programme which allowed local people to engage in the conservation appraisal process in the Wentworth street conservation area in East London. Valuing lived experience and taking an asset based learning approach was central to this work.
Read MoreThe TSIP team took some time to deepen our collective understanding on the varied approaches to enabling imagination. In this blog we explore how imagination feeds into our day to day lives and our work.
Read MoreYouth Futures Foundation’s Strategy Manager, Ryan Howsham, and TSIP Consultant, Georgina Hammerton, set out why more insight is needed to understand what drives young people from marginalised backgrounds to pursue self-employment.
Read MoreIn January 2022, ENS began working with The Social Innovation Partnership (TSIP) to co-design a learning programme with a group of ENS members – specifically, changemakers with personal experience of statelessness who are working to champion the rights of stateless people across Europe. The following blog explores the co-design process and resulting training programme and reflects on co-design good practice more broadly.
Read MoreMuch of our work involves helping organisations to develop an evaluative mindset, whilst promoting participatory and formative approaches, which help shape the programme or intervention that we are evaluating independently. Read more about TSIP’s values in action.
Read MoreI have been fortunate to head research, evaluation and learning at TSIP since early 2021. During this time, I have gathered the reflections of my passionate colleagues and learned about the unique skillsets and values that we bring to our evaluation work.
Read MoreIn this blog, Shaun and Paul discuss the development of the Medical Scepticism project. After identifying that alongside the distrust of institutions that persists among many BME communities - healthcare and medical scepticism was also evident. The TSIP and Centric team conducted further research to find out the nuances that exist within the mistrust.
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