Reflection, resources and musings aloud on supporting, enabling and empowering young people
The Innovation Exchange is a new initiative seeking to incubate and support innovations in the third sector. Last week John Craig, Innovation Exchange director hosted a gathering as part of exploring how the Exchange can best support innovation on two themes: Independent Living and Excluded Young People.
This week, programme co-ordinator Raj Cheema has thrown that exploration wider - and is asking for comment and input on ideas that could make a real change for excluded young people.
Raj asks: Can you suggest a single change in policy which would be likely to
encourage development of better ways of meeting unmet needs relating to
excluded young people?
If you can - then head over to the Innovation Exchange blog and make sure they know about it....
About Tim Davies
Tim Davies is a freelance consultant and researcher focussing on youth work and youth and community participation.
Tim graduated with a first class BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE) from Oxford University in 2006. Whilst at University and for a short while afterwards Tim worked as a trainer and consultant with the Participation team of The National Youth Agency, developed the Hear by Right online shared learning tool and managed the final relaunch of the Participation Works online gateway for NCB/Participation Works. He has designed and delivered consultations for national and local government. Tim was also responsible for developing a national online management information system for YouthBank UK, now providing micro-finance grant management tools to over 80 sites across England and Ireland. Tim has also worked as communications manager for Just Fair Trade in Leicester.
Writing and blogging widely, Tim recently co-authored a chapter in the Open University reader 'Leading and Managing Youth Work' with Bill Badham.
Tim draws on skills as a technology steward and social media specialist to make the most of collaboration, consultation and community building technology in projects he works on - and to support youth organisations in engaging with social media.