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Stronger Together: A Co-production Webinar series with the Ageing Better Programme
Ageing Better programme partners have come together to showcase our learning through a webinar series on Co-Production. We want to inspire others to use the principles of co-production to work collaboratively to achieve a collective aim.
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Co-Production Week 2020: The Importance of Building a Co-Production Network
Vicky explains how co-production is more than just individuals, communities and organisations embracing the concept; it is about a wider network of people coming together and sharing learning
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Social Prescribing in a Crisis
Sue, from one of our partner programmes, Brightlife Cheshire, tells us how she has had to adapt her role since lockdown and gives us some top tips for continuing to offer valuable support in a time of crisis
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Co-production Week – Introducing Age Proud Leeds
Time to Shine, our Leeds based Ageing Better partner, tell us about co-producing their Age Proud Leeds campaign
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Co-production Week – How our Delivery Partners champion co-production
We spoke to Jan from our Ripple Effect project and Lewis from our Live Better: Get Connected service about what co-production means to them and what it looks like in practice
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Introducing Co-Production Week 2020: A welcomed opportunity to talk about all things Co-Pro
Week commencing 6th July is Co-production Week! As co-production is at the heart of Age Better in Sheffield, we are making the most of this week that is annually dedicated to co-production. Here's some of the ways we will be getting involved...
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Promoting an age friendly culture: How Time to Shine are driving forward their Age Proud campaign
Vicky, Ageing Better's Senior Co-production lead, joined the Time to Shine steering group, gaining insight into how our West Yorkshire based Ageing Better programme are upholding their age-friendly narrative.
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Viewing our people as valuable not vulnerable: How Camden are Co-producing in a Crisis
The older people of Camden are supporting each other through a member-led network, demonstrating that they are indeed Ageing Better in Camden’s greatest asset.
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Coproducing to overcome times of crisis: How Bristol Ageing Better have ensured coproduction remains at the heart of their programme
Bristol Ageing Better are ensuring coproduction remains an integral part of their programme and consider the what’s, where’s and how’s of engaging people during this time of separation.
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Stronger together: Ageing Well Torbay share how working in collaboration during times of crisis has incredible results
Ageing Well Torbay, led by the Torbay Community Development Trust, has taken a lead role in pooling together COVID-19 resource across Torbay, heading up a 7 days a week/12 hour a day Community Coronavirus Helpline.
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Creative collaborations are inspired within the Age Better in Sheffield Programme
This next blog post in our “co-producing in a crisis” series comes from Age Better in Sheffield (ABiS). Programme Manager, Edyta Bancer, shares how ABiS are forming collaborations during the COVID-19 pandemic and how creative thinking has enabled them to respond to the support needs of older people.
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Co-producing in a Crisis: How Ageing Better in Birmingham have harnessed the internet
This is the first of a mini blog series, "Co-producing in a Crisis", that we will be sharing over the next few weeks as part of The Ageing Better Co-production Project. We will share how Ageing Better programmes across England have risen to the challenge of the Covid-19 pandemic, to ensure that communities can continue to work together to meet the needs of older people.
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