Portfolio

@Home Service        

The @Home Service is a volunteer driven suite of services developed and delivered by Age Concern Kingston (ACK) which aims to reduce unplanned admissions, enable safe and timely discharge home from hospital and support people to flourish in their own homes and communities. The service is an enhanced service combining the Stay Well and Home Response services. It offers a combination of long term, low level interventions and an intensive ‘reablement’ support post hospital visit or crisis such as an illness or a fall at home.

@Home Service        

The @Home Service is an enhanced service combining the Stay Well and Home Response services. The service offers a combination of long term, low level interventions and an intensive ‘reablement’ post hospital visit or crisis such as an illness or a fall at home.

@Home Service        

The @Home Service is an enhanced service combining the Stay Well and Home Response services. The service offers a combination of long term, low level interventions and an intensive ‘reablement’ post hospital visit or crisis such as an illness or a fall at home.

Arrival Education        

Arrival Education empowers young people to approach the fundamental question of 'what do you want to do in your life?'.

Asylum Justice        

Asylum Justice is a response to the growing challenge of dealing fairly with asylum seekers in the UK.

Case study: A Friend-In-Deed        

A programme that allows people to stay in their own homes for as long as possible.

Status: Existing concept undergoing further refinement.

Case study: Full of Life        

Peer-to-peer cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to provide emotional resilience for older people.

Status: Undergoing further development as part of the work of the Wellbeing Initiative within the Young Foundation.

Case study: Healthy Incentives        

Steps to Health is an innovative project to support and reward healthy behaviour.

Status: Progressing well.

Case study: Kingston Healthy Living Centre Project        

A project to invest in the physical space of the current Hawks Road Clinic to transform this venue into a multipurpose HLC dedicated to integrated health and social care, engaging and serving the population on the CREs.

Status: Completed - recommendations under consideration by NHS Kingston.

Case study: Maslaha        

Maslaha is a new organisation being established by the Young Foundation which aims to help Muslims deal with the everyday dilemmas of living in western society. Maslaha translates from Arabic as ‘for the common good' and will be built around an interactive website.

Status: Progressing well.

Case study: NeuroResponse        

Neuroresponse is a social enterprise that will offer a new model of care for people with Multiple Sclerosis.

Status: Progressing well. 

Enternships        

An internship programme for aspiring entrepreneurs alongside a supportive training program - placing individuals in small start-up type organisations.

Faking It        

Faking It aims to provide Young People with the experience and demands of the real-world.

Fastlaners        

Fastlaners is a 2 week, intensive work‐readiness programme for graduates from East London who are at risk of becoming unemployed.

Language Line        

Language line was first established as a charitable project in April 1990 by Michael Young

Living Together with Dementia        

A project aimed at developing interventions for couples living with dementia.

 Status: Progressing well.

Mydex        

Mydex is the Young Foundation supported project to put people back in charge of their personal data.

Saheli        

Saheli is a health and fitness service run by and for local women, removing barriers for Asian women by encouraging them to engage with leisure facilities and manage their health better.

School of Everything        

School of Everything is an online market place for face-to-face learning.

SEiR        

Eleanor Cappell is the SEiR

Social Innovation Camp        

Social Innovation Camp is an experiment in how social technology can create social change.

Spice        

Spice provides public service and community organisations with effective methods to better engage with citizens and service users and to work more collaboratively.

Start Again        

Start Again Football is a social enterprise that provides customised support in the form of exercise, community re-integration and employment opportunities to young people with mental health issues.

Studio Schools        

A new version of 14-19 school hosting businesses where students are employed, earning real wages alongside a project-based curriculum.

supportmyparent.com        

This project aims to provide support to the millions of adults facing stress over the parents' ageing.

Status: Considering alternative models arising from the original supportmyparent concept.

Teach Too         

Getting talented professionals who are passionate about what they do to train and teach part-time (and term-time) in schools.

Which        

Which magazine was created by Michael Young and others in 1957