Resources

Arts activities could play a huge role in alleviating ongoing pressure on the NHS via social prescribing.

Download the Welsh Government Briefing here.

The Cardiff Capital Region has recently launched a Challenge Fund to ‘harness the power of innovation in procurement’. Emyr Williams took a supporting role in this process and did rapid background research exploring some of the critical success factors behind challenge funds.

The I2S programme offered grant funding, non-financial support and repayable loans, enabling public and third-sector organisations to prototype, trial, scale and evaluate innovative projects.

Welcome to the HARP Journal!  Here we will share news and emerging learning from the ‘HARP’ (Health, Arts, Research, People) programme each month during 2021-22.

This report is an overview of the Innovate to Save programme, which ran from 2017 - 2020 in Wales. 

In 2019, we published our guide to Repayable Finance for Innovation  - our goal was to share lessons learned from running Innovate to Save to help others in governments around the world do the same.

Since then, we've learned more that we want to add to those recommendations and so we are publishing the Innovate to Save Playbook, a how-to guide to running a programme that blends grants and loans together with tailored support to enable innovation to happen in public services. 

This report highlights case studies of public services innovation in Wales and brings together shared challenges and barriers facing innovators across the public sector.