Designing Services for Social Impact

Do you want to turn your ideas into real impact faster, with less risk, and more confidence?

Are you looking to improve your existing services, make delivery more efficient, or explore new ways to generate income and strengthen your organisation?

Join us at the Sunderland Winter Gardens for a hands-on workshop with Edge Innovation and NICA (National Innovation Centre for Ageing).

You’ll explore simple, proven tools to design better services, test ideas early, and focus your time and resources where they create the most value, helping you increase impact while reducing costs and opening up new opportunities.

This session will equip you with tools and expert support you can immediately apply to your own projects.

• Introduction to Lean Innovation –a clear, practical way to design and test ideas quickly.
• Reduce risk and speed up delivery – learn how to find what works (and what doesn’t) before investing too much time or money.
• Improve efficiency – discover how to streamline service delivery and use resources more effectively.
• Unlock new income streams – identify ways to adapt or expand your services to bring in new revenue.
• Hands-on tools – take away simple methods you can use straight away.
• Guided practice – apply what you learn to your own projects with expert support from Edge and NICA.
• Networking lunch – meet and connect with other North East organisations creating social impact.

• Venue: Sunderland Winter Gardens (Ground floor, fully wheelchair accessible)
• Refreshments and lunch included.

This workshop is ideal for charities, social enterprises, and startups developing products or services for social good, especially those looking to innovate with confidence, deliver more efficiently, and build financial sustainability.

National Innovation Centre for Ageing (NICA)'s Internet of Caring Things® (IOCT) Programme, supports organisations in the development of products and services that care for people or that people care about, improving well-being across their lifespan. IOCTs multidisciplinary team are able to provide a wide range of support services including data science support, user testing, UX/UI design and rapid prototyping of physical products.

Learn more: Ageing Innovation & Consultancy - Ageing Intelligence - National Innovation Centre Ageing

Edge Innovation is a design and innovation consultancy based in the North East of England. They support organisations across public, private, and charitable sectors by applying human-centred design and lean innovation processes to help develop and deliver impactful products and services.

Learn more: Edge Innovation Ltd | Design Thinking and Collaborative Innovation Consultants

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