FeaturesFeatures is an informal place to communicate our ideas, thinking and emerging trends through Thoughts in Progress (TIPS), as well as interviews with social entrepreneurs. Please also see the Young Foundation's TIPS for further thoughts on social policy and innovation. TIP: Age related
The creeping problem felt by lone individuals of both generations is one of the biggest facing government today. Jane Dawson
08 June 2009 | Jane Dawson
TIP: Why can’t a woman be more like a male entrepreneur?Social enterprise is widely recognized as an attractive and worthwhile career for women yet, in the UK, they are far fewer in number than their male counterparts. Why is this? Eleanor Cappell 04 June 2009 |
TIP Social Impact Bonds and Social Value
Social Impact Bonds - the thinking behind the development of a financial tool providing a new way to invest money in social outcomes; working in an innovative way, linking commercial investors, a programme of actions and national government commitments. Geoff Mulgan writes
07 January 2009 |
TIP: MaRS Attacks
MaRS Attacks
When the NHS sold the Middlesex Hospital in Central London in 2006, we turned it into a very smart block of Candy & Candy luxury flats.
When the Canadian health service had finished with the old Toronto
General Hospital in the city’s University District, they turned it into
this. I can’t help feeling we missed a trick. Written by Stian Westlake
29 October 2008 | Stian Westlake
TIP: Enterprising students
Caldew secondary school in Cumbria specialises in entrepreneurship and business and is redesigning itself for the 21st Century.Written by Yvonne Roberts
16 June 2008 | Yvonne Roberts
TIP: What should we do about “More”?
The challenge of “more” has become a major issue for our health system.
And it is a particularly difficult challenge for statutory bodies to
address, since tackling it requires not just providing more services,
but encouraging people to change their behaviour.Written by Stian Westlake
06 June 2008 | Stian Westlake
TIP: Imagining a working world that supports people with long term conditions
"WORKING WELL" Imagining a working world that supports people with long term conditions.
29 January 2008 | Admin
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