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helping people with lived experience participate in designing solutions to problems affecting their communities.

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Day: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Time: 8pm
Frequency: Weekly
Cost: More then £20
Location: 15, SK146NY (click to open map in new window)

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Self Referral: No
Accessible for Disabled People: Yes
Accessible for People with Language Needs: Yes

About Social Innovation CIC

Social Innovation CIC is a profit-for-purpose social innovation organisation focused on improving how health, education, social care and communities respond to people’s needs. Rather than waiting until problems reach crisis point, the organisation develops and supports practical, preventative solutions designed around real experiences and gaps in existing systems.

Its role is broader than delivering one service. Social Innovation CIC acts as an umbrella, development hub and collaboration space where lived experience, community knowledge, professional expertise, technology and research can be brought together to turn problems into workable solutions.

The organisation’s approach is built around “Prevention Is the Cure.” This means identifying needs earlier, improving communication between people and services, strengthening evidence for decision-making, increasing digital inclusion and helping communities have a genuine role in designing the services that affect them.

Projects developed or showcased through the CIC include NeuroPathway, which supports earlier identification of needs and structured evidence collection; Safe Space, providing accessible wellbeing and self-expression tools for children and young people; MediSense, exploring better access to important care information during crisis or admission; and community initiatives such as Small Steps. The CIC can also support and showcase affiliated social innovations rather than needing to own every idea itself.

A key part of the model is co-design. Families, young people, professionals, community members, innovators and advisers can contribute different forms of expertise. The aim is not to replace NHS, education or social-care professionals, but to develop tools and approaches that help existing systems work earlier, more efficiently and more collaboratively.

In simple terms, Social Innovation CIC finds gaps where people are falling through systems, brings the right people together, and develops preventative solutions that can be tested, evaluated and scaled if the evidence shows they work.

Social Innovation CIC — Prevention Is the Cure.

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