By Richard McKeever
Anyone can be an Everyday Innovator, and bring about changes to public services. Community Links have been bringing about change in public service delivery for the past 30 years, piloting projects and achieving national level policy changes, harnessing the ideas of people who use services, communities and front line service staff.
Everyday Innovators are guided by three principles:
- Those who experience a problem understand it best
- Tackle causes not symptoms, find solutions not palliatives
- Act local, but think global
We are now offereing a free two day training course in the Everyday Innovators process which provides a new approach to engaging residents in policy development and public service issues. The course will enable practitioners identify innovative ways of delivering public services.
This pilot course will be run by linksUK at the offices of the Community Development Foundation in Leeds. The first session on Tuesday 11th March 2008 from 10am to 4pm. The second session will be at the same venue on Wednesday 9th April.
To book, contact Kathleen Mclaren at Community Links – further details of the course are available for download. Booking is open until 7th March.
