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Catch up on the latest news from The Ideas Fund!
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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05 September 2025
Insights: The role of the broker
We've published a new insights report on the role of the broker in community-researcher partnerships
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28 February 2025
Learning together – notes from our Evidence Building grantholder meet up
We recently announced our Evidence Building Grants. These are our reflections from getting the group together online to talk about learning.
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18 February 2025
The Ideas Fund awards £1.73m to community mental wellbeing projects
Thirteen projects have been awarded a total of £1.73million to continue and extend their work, alongside researchers, improving the mental wellbeing of local communities. The new grants, called Evidence Building Grants, will help projects strengthen and expand their work, whilst gathering learning about the impact that can be achieved when communities are supported to lead work in partnership with researchers.
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30 December 2024
Creating Community Through Circus: A Q&A with Cath from In Your Space Circus
The Ideas Fund is proud to support In Your Space Circus, a circus school and performance company based in Derry, Northern Ireland, that is supporting older people to have fun, develop new skills and build community through circus. We spoke to Company Director Cath about their work and their experience of The Ideas Fund so far.
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13 November 2024
Valuing Lived Experience in Research: A Q&A with Sally from Inspire Women
One of the projects we work with at The Ideas Fund is Inspire Women, an Oldham-based organisation that supports women with their mental health. We spoke to organisation founder Sally Bonnie about their community, how they’ve had to reinvent themselves after losing their centre during COVID-19 and the importance of valuing lived experience in research.
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10 October 2024
How peer research can have a big impact for local communities: A Q&A with Melody from Garelochhead Station Trust, and Christian from Men Behaving Dadly
Melody and Christian sat down with us to talk about their experiences of doing peer research in their communities, as part of The Ideas Fund. Melody is part of Garelochhead Station Trust, a charity that supports veterans, their families and the wider community in a rural community in Scotland. Christian is from Men Behaving Dadly, a group that supports Dad’s in Oldham to connect with their children through play.
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12 August 2024
Introducing The Ideas Fund Impact Framework
In our recent announcement about the The Ideas Fund being extended for a further three years, we shared that the next phase of our work will include an increased emphasis on gathering evidence and sharing best practice about community-led partnerships with researchers.
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