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Ideathon Programme 2010
Date: January 27/28 2010: Beatbullying
About Beatbullying: Beatbullying work to provide children, young people and professionals those all important opportunities to make positive and lasting changes to their lives and outlook, in particular, those so deeply affected by bullying that they can barely face going to school that next morning. They work tirelessly to affect that attitudinal change in those that bully, working with them on taking responsibility and a sense of ownership over their actions, building those foundations for change and improvement in chances and opportunities. Beatbullying ensures that the portfolio of programmes on offer, assist whole communities and work seamlessly across local authorities by embedding and sustaining the work, building strong local, regional and national partnerships along the way.
CEO: Emma-Jane Cross
Challenge: How do we fulfil the potential of our cyber mentoring programme?
Date: February 16/17 2010: Help For Heroes
About Help For Heroes: Help for Heroes raises money to support members of the Armed Forces who have been wounded in the service of their country. They were founded by Bryn and Emma Parry in 2007 out of a desire to help the wounded Servicemen and women returning from Afghanistan and Iraq. The message of the charity is simple: They are strictly non political and non critical; they simply want to help. They believe that anyone who volunteers to serve in time of war, knowing that they may risk all, is a hero. These are ordinary people doing extraordinary things and some of them are living with the consequences of their service for life. They may not be able to prevent our soldiers from being wounded, but they work together with the public’s support to help them get better.
CEO: Bryn Parry
Challenge: Help For Heroes - what next?
Date: March 23/24 2010: Coram Children's Charity
About Coram: Coram has been working with disadvantaged children since 1739 when Thomas Coram established the Foundling Hospital, to care for abandoned children dying on the streets of London. Over 250 years later, the streets of London are still as dangerous for many children, all too many of whom are growing up without the support of a loving home. Coram transforms the lives of children and young people, helping them to find stability and lead rich independent lives by providing practical help and support. Coram works with vulnerable children, young people and their families in London and beyond. This work takes many forms, but all their services focus on building self-esteem and emotional well being, preparing children for a fulfilling adult life.
CEO: Dr Carol Homden
Challenge: How do we realise the potential of Coram’s Life Education Centers to enable a generation of children to understand the risks around them?
Date: April 21/22 2010: Green Alliance
About Green Alliance: Green Alliance is a UK organisation that aims to promote sustainable development by ensuring that the environment is at the heart of decision-making. They are an influential environmental think tank working to ensure UK political leaders deliver ambitious solutions to global environmental issues. They understand political decision-making and have helped to change policy bringing climate change and environmental issues into the mainstream. Their activities include research, advocacy and convening high-profile events with senior politicians and key influencers.
CEO: Stephen Hale
Challenge: After a year in which Green Alliance has almost doubled in size, how can we maintain momentum in a year of external and internal change?
Date: June 16/17 2010: British Red Cross
About British Red Cross: British Red Cross are a volunteer-led humanitarian organisation that helps people in crisis, whoever and wherever they are. They enable vulnerable people at home and overseas to prepare for and respond to emergencies in their own communities. And when the crisis is over, they help people recover and move on with their lives. Their work in the UK focuses on four areas: 1.Emergency response – they help individuals and communities respond to and recover from emergencies, such as floods, fires and evacuations. 2.First aid training – they promote life-saving and other humanitarian skills so individuals can be ready to help their own communities. 3. Health and social care – we help people during difficult periods of their life, such as an illness, breakdown in support arrangements or bereavement. 4. Refugees and other vulnerable migrants – we help new arrivals to the UK and work to reunite families separated by conflicts and disasters.
CEO: Nick Young
Challenge: What external opportunities should the British Red Cross be pursuing to help us deliver our new five year strategy - Saving Lives, Changing Lives?
Date: July 13/14 2010: The Children's Society
About The Children’s Society: The Children's Society is a leading national charity that makes childhood better for all children in the UK. Their network of community-based projects provide targeted, immediate and lasting help for children who feel excluded, isolated or abandoned; children who live in a vicious circle of fear and harm, and who are faced with a lifetime of danger and disadvantage in their daily lives. Their school work, children’s centres and mentoring schemes help many more children avoid crisis by developing the skills and confidence they need to challenge and overcome difficult situations. Their research and campaigning creates real change by influencing the thinking of everyone - from the general public to politicians and decision makers - about how to make childhood better.
CEO: Bob Reitemeier
Challenge: What can we do to change public attitudes towards children and young people in the absence of a significant advertising budget?
Date: September 28/29 2010: Scope
About Scope: Scope works towards their vision which is a world where disabled people have the same opportunities to fulfil their life ambitions as non-disabled people. Their purpose is to drive the changes that will make our society the first in which disabled people are able to realise their full civil liberties and human rights. Scope's services focus on four main areas where disabled people face the greatest inequality: early years, education, independent living and work. They also provide local support services which respond to the needs identified by disabled people in their communities.
CEO: Richard Hawkes
Challenge: How do we become so well known that we never again have to say "We used to be the Spastics Society"?
Date: October 12/13 2010: Catch22
About Catch22: Catch22 is a national charity that works with young people who find themselves in difficult situations. Whatever the reason for their situation, they help them out. They work with their families and their communities wherever and whenever young people need them most. They focus on five areas (learn, earn a living, live somewhere safe, steer clear of crime, give something back) where their work can make a real and lasting difference in young people’s lives, for their families and for the whole community. These five areas rarely stand alone, each one can affect the other. Catch22 deals with them all.
CEO: Joyce Moseley
Challenge: To be confirmed
Date: November 10/11 2010: Thames Reach
About Thames Reach: Thames Reach is a London-based charity helping homeless and vulnerable people to find decent homes, build supportive relationships and lead fulfilling lives. Their vision is to end street homelessness.They support people with experience of homelessness as well as vulnerable or isolated men and women who may be in danger of becoming homeless. They specialise in helping people with complex and multiple needs, including mental health issues and drug and alcohol problems. Thames Reach employs over 370 staff members and around 75 volunteers, who provide support to more than 3,500 homeless, vulnerable or isolated people each year. They value diversity and life experience, and over 10 per cent of their workforce made up of former homeless people.
CEO: Jeremy Swain
Challenge: To be confirmed
Date: December 7/8 2010: Guys and St Thomas' Charity
About Guy and St Thomas': Guys and St Thomas' Charity awards grants to facilitate improvements to health services in the London boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark. Grants fund a wide range of projects: from small schemes which improve the patients' environment, to major initiatives which involve the purchase of cutting-edge equipment to diagnose and treat illness.
CEO: Peter Hewitt
Challenge: To be confirmed
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