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Hi All

We are very excited to hold the next Co-pro network meeting here in Merthyr Tydfil. The agenda is beginning to take some shape but we…

Another couple of blurbs sharing a bit of experiance about setting up a Timebank

http://onewhistleonebell.wordpress.com/

Social marketing typically isn't associated with co-pro (maybe it's the 'marketing' bit that puts people off!). But there's interesting work being presented at the European Social Marketing conference in Lisbon later this month about participatory methods, ethnographic approaches to understanding communities and frameworks for partnership working.

http://wsmconference.com/lisbon

I'd like to let you know about the WCVA Annual Conference and AGM 2012, which is entitled: "I matter, We matter: coproduction into action" and is being held at Cardiff City Stadium on 29th November. There's whole day of talks, breakout sessions and workshops scheduled (Ruth is running some copro workshops!) - the full programme is below. 

Hope to see you there!…

It's a pleasure to announce that the next London Coproduction Network meeting will be held on Monday 21st January 2013, 10am-12.30pm. Nef will be hosting the event at 3 Jonathan Street (SE11 5NH, 5 minutes' walk from Vauxhall tube station). The agenda has been organised by Daniel Barrett, from South West London and St. George’s Mental Health NHS Trust. Excitingly, we'll be taking a particular interest in coproduction in mental health. We've three great speakers, and there…

Dear All

I am curious to know how people are assessing and demonstrating the values of co-production research outputs and outcomes. I come from an action-research in developing countries background and have recently come across the co-production network and ways of working. There are many parallels between the co-production principles and ways of working with what people aspire to achieve through action-research.

I have been looking through the co-production literature for a…

A great evaluation has recently been published about the impact of a user led mental health support group. ''Peer Power'', by Simon Duffy evaluates the econonmic value of the peer support group as:

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Local government has changed.  Quite simply, public services can no longer be provided unilaterally – delivering effective policy outcomes is a collaborative process.  Collaboration brings challenges but delivers tangible advantages and cash savings.  As the so-called 'graph of doom' hangs over our future, successful…

• Public Meeting: October 25th, 7:30pm, Big Sleep Hotel, Cardiff

  organised by Compass…

Colette & David Neal are running a Co-production and Community Development event in Rhos on Sea on 13 November. All welcome - full details on Wales Network page.

About 30 of us attended the Wales Network meeting in Swansea yesterday with lots of new faces and plenty of delectable old ones (in the experiential sense). Nick Andrews provided the venue, cups and water/juice; Rick Wilson from Community Lives Consortium gave us a provocative presentation on developing social as opposed to anti-social services (taken from his PhD in progress - it's going to be a great read!) and…

For your viewing pleasure, I present to you...

Graphic recordings by Laura Sorvala of auralab.co.uk, done at the All in this Together 3 - Resilient Communities event.…

All in this Together 3: Co-producing Resilient Communities, went down a storm. More information about the speakers and their presentations is on the All in this Together blog and we hope to put up the slide presentations and graphic visualisations on the blog and on the Network site next week.

Some 460 people from 217 organisations have been involved with AitT in one…

hi, am working on a co-production pilot project to involve young people in the setting up of a shadow LSCB, does anyone know of other initiatives in this area?

Just wanted to share my pink excitement about our upcoming All in this Together event: Co-producing Resilient Communities...we now have 172 delegates, the great, the good, the fragrant and the unexpected, from all sectors and levels. We are hoping to video the presentations - if we manage to do that we'll post them up on the Network resource section. A few tickets still remain if you want to join in the delights...booking via…

The next meeting of the London Network is fast approaching and has been coordinated by Nicola Kingston, whom many of you met at the last meeting.

This one will be on the 2nd October, 10am-12.30, at the Irish Culture Centre near Hammersmith underground station, W6 9DT.

Please go ahead and book your place at …

I've been meaning to post this manifesto on the blog for quite a while, and here it finally is! The exerpt below is from Ruth Marsden, who was standing for the role of National Director of Patient Insight with the NHS Commissioning Board. I've included her full manifesto, which I think it a helpful reminder of what the difference between tokenistic engagement and genuine co-production is.

Manifesto for the post of National Director of Patient Insight with the NHS…

Just wanted to let everyone know about a number of co-production videos we've recently produced. They include:

1. Jude Wells on Stockport Council's co-design of its Adult Social Care Website (click here)
2. Helen Allen on how Community Catalysts help enterprising people co-produce local solutions (…