The Centre for Social Action Innovation Fund is a £14m fund run by Nesta, the UK’s Innovation Foundation, working in partnership with the Cabinet Office.
Over the next two years the ambition is to:
- Find innovations that harness different types of social action to make a positive difference across a range of outcomes
- Support the most promising innovations to have more impact, including building evidence of what works
- Enable a small number of proven innovations to achieve impact at significant scale, by reaching and benefiting many more people
The Innovation Fund will focus on a small number of big social challenges, like helping older people to age well or supporting people to get into work, where there is a plausible account of how social action can make a difference and is under-exploited by the existing approach of public services.
More info available here: http://www.nesta.org.uk/project/centre-social-action-innovation-fund/full-details