Opportunities for Innovation

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Today we will connect innovators and potential collaborators and

supporters

Public service commissioners

Social investors

Third sector innovators

help them to identify opportunities for innovation

Great third sector innovations

Commissioners’ and investors’ needs

Advice and support

with individual budgets

Support to overcome

social isolation

And support them to improve and develop them

It’s already started online

And the Festival of Ideas is part of a broader process

Why excluded young people?

• Political priority

• Market opportunity

• Third sector capacity

• A need for innovation

Opportunity spaces – our best guess

• Online opportunities

• Coaching and mentoring

• Positive activities

• Enterprise and work

• Housing

• Helping NEETs

But all that really matters is your work and your passion