To effect practical change, TSIP and Shoreditch Trust developed a managed fund to support communities involved with the Civic Hub. It aims to:

  • Develop new (or improve) programmes, services, and products for local people in the area (e.g. young people, afro-caribbean communities, etc.) that are more culturally relevant, accessible and achieve better outcomes (health and wellbeing)

  • Provide entrepreneurship opportunities for people who want to lead change for their communities

  • Broker conversations with individuals who wouldn’t normally speak with one another (e.g. councils, local leaders, businesses and civil society)

 
 

FUNDING PACKAGE 1: CORE DESIGN CHALLENGE

  • Locally recruited community director, TSIP and Shoreditch Trust time to do outreach, coordination, facilitation, event management and brokering of relationships and conversations

  • A half-day ‘unconference’ event with 30-40 people attending

  • Three design challenges with 15-20 people attending (70% are people with lived experience, 30% are people representing relevant organisations)

  • Prototyping of innovative idea(s), which will receive £15,000 to be delivered in the subsequent 6 months to a year

 

FUNDING PACKAGE 2: COMMUNITY-LED DESIGN CHALLENGE

  • Community director, TSIP and Shoreditch Trust time to do outreach, coordination, facilitation, event management and brokering of relationships and conversations

  • A half-day ‘unconference’ event with 30-40 people attending

  • Three design challenges with 15-20 people attending

  • Prototyping of an innovative idea, which will receive £15,000 to be delivered in the subsequent 6 months to a year

  • 10 local people trained in design, with 3 selected to facilitate the design challenges

 

FUNDING PACKAGE 3: COMMUNITY-LED DESIGN RESEARCH & CHALLENGEs

  • Community director, TSIP and Shoreditch Trust time to do outreach, coordination, facilitation, event management and brokering of relationships and conversations

  • A half-day ‘unconference’ event with 30-40 people attending

  • Three design challenges with 15-20 people attending

  • Prototyping of an innovative idea, which will receive £15,000 to be delivered in the subsequent 6 months to a year

  • 10 local people trained in design, with 3 selected to facilitate the design challenges

  • 5 local people trained to research their peers, gathering insight from up to 50 individuals to feed into the design process.