Case Studies
CHANGING CORE FUNDING With City Bridge Foundation’s Anchor Programme
The Anchor Programme is an innovative funding programme from City Bridge Foundation, London’s biggest independent charitable funder. The programme awards long-term core funding to second tier organisations providing support to London’s frontline groups. As the programme’s Learning Partner, TSIP works with the funded organisations to harness their collective learning to reach the aims of the programme.
Read more here.
CASE STUDIES FROM OUr COMMUNITY-LED FUND, THE GIVING LAB
Co-designed with the West-Central Southwark community, The Giving Lab is an innovative funding model ecosystem where communities have reimagined grantmaking led by and for communities. Set up in partnership with our funders Impact on Urban Health, Wellcome Trust, The Giving Lab brings together people, organisations and businesses in Southwark to share, develop and fund ideas for improving community health.
Explore case studies from The Giving Lab here.
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At the start of 2019, Arup and The Social Innovation Partnership embarked on a five-year evaluation of Peabody's work in Thamesmead. Five years on, what has happened?
TSIP was commissioned by the Greater London Authority to conduct a mapping of community engagement across London, aiming to explore more collaborative and innovative community engagement and co-production methods.
As the appointed learning partner for the VAWG grassroots fund, TSIP aimed to understand the barriers and opportunities of increasing the capacity, sustainability and accessibility of funding to specialist grassroots organisations.
In its first year 2021, Employers Domestic Abuse Covenant commissioned us to conduct a first year impact evaluation. Since its launch, EDAC has exceeded its own expectations and made a significant impact on the VAWG sector.
In 2022, we were commissioned by London Legacy Development Corporation to co-design a governance framework for Good Growth Hub, a new model to bring business and young people in east London together.
How research into the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on communities turned into a project to understand the root causes of medical scepticism and inform future research initiatives and interventions.
In 2020, at the heart of the COVID crisis, TSIP worked with the British Science Association (BSA) to re-design a public engagement in research-fund which reflects the realities of people’s lived experiences around their health.
TSIP and the British Science Association (BSA) co-produced a programme around community engagement in research, focused on ensuring that communities can set the research agenda.
TSIP worked with Oasis Hub to evaluate their Sport England funded physical activity programme in Waterloo and Warndon.
In this process and impact evaluation, we were commissioned by Trees for Cities to evaluate a playground renovation in a Southwark Primary School. This is part of a wider programme around Childhood Obesity run by Impact on Urban Health.
As part of a summer internship programmes, three TSIP interns were on a mission to evaluate TSIP’s own social impact. Read more about their findings here.
In collaboration with The McPin Foundation and Black Thrive, TSIP and our team of Community Researchers explored the experiences of Black people in Lambeth in relation to employment, COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter movement.
The Civic Hub is a space in Hackney that brings people together to collaborate on local challenges and opportunities by putting communities and lived experiences in the lead.
In partnership with Black Thrive and The McPin Foundation, we worked with our team of community researchers to explore the perspectives of Black people with lived experience of long-term conditions.
Insight into our work measuring the impact Peabody’s placemaking project has had on local life, including residents' experience of living in the area, Thamesmead's landscape, its culture and arts offering, community involvement and cohesion and regeneration activities more broadly.
Exploring our work engaging local communities through community research to discuss the impacts of air pollution and designing new ways to give underrepresented communities a voice in the space.
In partnership with Impact on Urban Health, our Community Researcher team conducted vital research to provide insight into the impact of Covid-19 on vulnerable groups across Lambeth and Southwark.
Learn more about our work with Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity pioneering innovative programmes including research which is led by and for the community and participatory grant-making through a community-led fund.
WorldSkills UK commissioned and partnered with The Social Innovation Partnership to undertake a review of diversity and inclusion across its Skills Competitions Programme across the UK.
We are currently partnering with the London Community Foundation and The Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime to co-design and deliver its Grassroots Fund for London’s Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) sector.
TSIP partnered with Guy's and St Thomas' Charity and The Wellcome Trust to research, design and explore what a democratic and inclusive grant-making fund might look like for the communities of Lambeth and Southwark.
Childhood obesity is one of the biggest health challenges in the London boroughs and since 2018, TSIP has been supporting research, learning and evaluation of the Charity’s childhood obesity programme which aims to improve children’s health in urban areas by tackling childhood obesity.
TSIP was instrumental in first developing Project Oracle, the world's first Evidence Hub, which was created with partners to address the Greater London Authority's need for rigorous and joined-up evidence in the youth sector.
Between 2012 and 2014 Big Society Capital provided over £150m in social investment for charities and social enterprises. We worked with the lenders responsible for making these investments to help them strike the right balance between social impact and financial risks and returns.
In 2017/18 The Social Innovation Partnership partnered with UnLtd on a new initiative, supported by the National Lottery Community Fund to develop a new social leadership programme for those with ‘lived experience’.