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Catch up on the latest news from The Ideas Fund!
02 July 2024
Harnessing the power of exercise for addiction recovery: A Q&A with Gary from ARC Fitness
One of the projects supported by The Ideas Fund is ARC Fitness, an organisation based in Derry, Northern Ireland, that offers practical support for people struggling with addiction and promotes healthy and sustainable recoveries through exercise and positive lifestyle choices. The project collaborated with two researchers, Dr Leanne Doherty and Dr Clare Puddifoot from Ulster University to conduct research into gender-specific recovery programmes. We spoke to ARC Founder Gary Rutherford, who told us all about the research, what it’s like being part of The Ideas Fund and more.
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23 May 2024
Using community research to better understand the needs of families affected by Acquired Brain Injury (ABI): A Q&A with P.A.U.L for Brain Recovery
One of the projects supported by The Ideas Fund in Hull is Supporting Family Members Affected by ABI (Acquired Brain Injury), led by the group P.A.U.L for Brain Recovery. We sat down with project lead Leigh and researcher Alex to talk about the project, the benefits of community-led research and how they’re using their findings to improve services for families affected by brain injury.
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27 February 2024
How community-led research is improving understanding of youth mental health in Shetland: A Q&A with Shannon from OPEN
Over the last few years, OPEN has collaborated with researchers on a number of projects aiming to better understand youth mental wellbeing in Shetland. We recently sat down with Shannon Boston, one of the peer researchers involved in the projects, to hear more about their experience of doing community-led research.
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29 January 2024
The Ideas Fund: In Conversation
Following the recent ‘In Conversation’ between James and Anna on their experiences collaborating with researchers, we invited three academic researchers to share their experiences of collaborating with community-led projects funded by The Ideas Fund.
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11 December 2023
Beyond projects: nurturing healthy systems
Read a summary of our latest learning conversation, focused on supporting systems change
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29 November 2023
The role of the broker
We recently explored the role of the "broker" in community/researcher collaboration with Will Hunter and Lewis Hou, and share some of our reflections here.
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08 November 2023
The Ideas Fund: In Conversation
James and Anna are from two projects involved in the Fund. Both have first-hand experience of collaborating with researchers to produce community-led research. We sat down with them to see what they made of their experience so far, the challenges and breakthroughs, and what advice they’d give to other groups interested in collaborating with researchers.
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22 September 2023
Request for Proposals: Ideas Fund Learning Partner
We're looking for a Learning Partner to support the next four years of The Ideas Fund. Find out more about our Request for Proposals.
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12 September 2023
Register for our Ideas Fund learning conversations
Over the last two years, The Ideas Fund team and partners have been gathering learning about the processes, systems and relationships needed to support community-led engagement with research and researchers.
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26 July 2023
The Ideas Fund announces first insight report
We have published the first insight report for The Ideas Fund, which captures our learnings and reflects on the progress we’ve made since launching the grant programme in January 2021.
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25 April 2023
Ideas Fund Round One Project Extensions Announced
We are delighted to announce that The Ideas Fund has extended funding for 11 projects.
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17 March 2023
The Ideas Fund announces £291,286 of funding
The Ideas Fund has awarded £291,286 to organisations in Hull, North West Northern Ireland and the Highlands and Islands of Scotland to run pilot projects that will seek to address the systemic challenges that community groups and researchers can face in working together.
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