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Everyday Innovators
Everyday Innovators is the result of over thirty years experience developing and delivering services in some of the most deprived parts of London. Anyone can be an Everyday Innovator. It doesn’t matter whether you’re the manager of a service, a service user, a community development worker or a policy officer. Everyday Innovators are guided by three principles:
- Those who experience a problem understand it best
- Tackle causes not symptoms, find real solutions not just quick fixes
- Act local, but think global
Some ideas are simple and practical and can be implemented locally, for example, setting up an independent disability benefits helpline or a new claim support service in local jobcentres. Others require government support and changes to rules – these form the basis of our contributions to policy development, for example, developing new solutions to existing government programmes which support the unemployed into self-employment.
Everyday Innovators work with managers, frontline staff and volunteers from all sectors, from a wide range of organisations and agencies that have yielded many innovative and practical ideas. This has involved working with the Social Regeneration Unit and other Newham Council departments, local Jobcentres, HM Treasury, Inland Revenue, Department of Work and Pensions, Micro-credit organisations, and private and voluntary sector organisations.
Recently the Everyday Innovators approach helped to support a young parents group to produce a report on What Young Parents Really Want.
A report on the activities of Everyday Innovators (previously called the What if…? process / SEZ) Enduring Change was published by the Policy Press in conjunction with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and is available for free download in PDF fomat here. Printed Copies may be obtained direct from The Policy Press
For more information please contact Aaron Barbour, on 020 7473 9666.