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Catch up on the latest news from The Ideas Fund!
13 July 2026
Bridging Communities and Health Systems
Building on the insights from Reimagining Research, this interactive resource explores the unexpected ways community-led research can influence health systems and services. Through an interactive map and audio clips drawn from interviews with contributors connected to The Ideas Fund and beyond, it explores how impact emerges through relationships, collaboration and shared learning, rather than through linear or predetermined outcomes.
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09 July 2026
Thanks for everything, friends
As our Grants and Learning Manager Jill heads off to new things, she shares some reflections on themes coming out of community-led collaboration with research right now.
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26 June 2026
Reflecting on Phase 1 of the Community-led Research Collaboration
As they move into the second phase, the group share their reflections on what they’ve learned together, where they are now and what they’re paying attention to as they begin testing a community-led funding model in Phase 2.
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26 June 2026
What if...everything changed?
Our Grants and Learning Manager, Jill, shares some reflections from our recent gathering of the Evidence Building Grant partners in Manchester.
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10 March 2026
Introducing the Community-Led Research Collaboration Core Group
The CLRC brings together nine people from across the UK to reflect on the realities of community-led research and create solutions to actively strengthen the field. In this blog, we introduce the people involved.
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23 January 2026
From Hull to Marrakesh: Sharing Our Brain Injury Research with the World
Dr Alex Wray and Emma Branch reflect on their experience of sharing the stories and experiences of 13 local families from Hull at an international audience of rehabilitation experts at the 19th World Congress of the International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (ISPRM) in Marrakesh.
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18 December 2025
Role of the broker Part 2: Support and wellbeing
In our second blog, following on from our recent Role of the broker event, we share some thoughts on the importance of support and wellbeing for people connecting the research and community worlds.
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12 December 2025
Role of the broker Part 1: Local connections, community experience and wider conditions
Following on from our recent learning session, hear more about the role brokers play in supporting community/researcher collaborations.
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03 December 2025
Reimagining Research
We’re thrilled to share our latest learning focusing on Reimagining Research! Explore this in-depth set of insights packed with case studies, videos, blogs and much more.
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14 November 2025
New event on 4th December: Reimagining Research
Sign up for our event in December - Reimagining Research: New models of communities leading research
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30 September 2025
Celebrating Parenting Focus
As Parenting Focus closes, we celebrate everything they've achieved through an Ideas Fund grant.
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16 September 2025
New opportunity: Community-Led Research Collaboration
We are delighted to announce that £80,000 in funding is being made available through The Ideas Fund, to improve and strengthen the support available to individuals and organisations who are delivering community-led research.
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