How one Third Sector Interface is making lived experience more visible and usable within strategic decision-making – and testing whether being heard differently leads to changed services and funding. A conversation with Maureen Allan, Chief Officer of Volunteer Centre...
Five years, many Life Maps later, one hard truth: the complexity was never in the people – it was in the system around them. As CFN closes, its Principal Officer asks what happens to hard-won learning when funding ends, but the need doesn’t.
For ten years, Natasha has been an unpaid carer – invisible on paper as NEET, indispensable at home. Two Life Maps, a year apart, helped her build the confidence to change her circumstances. Her story asks what changes when carers are seen for what they can offer, not just what they need.
When JS completed her Life Map, it revealed what her housing complaints alone had not: that one failing system was creating cascading inequality across her whole life. Here is what PROPS and SIGNAL learned – and what it asks services to do differently.
How the Connect programme is using SIGNAL to tackle social isolation, helping residents build confidence, connection and greater control.
A Game-Changing Partnership for Community Support in East Lothian Signal Scotland is an initiative of SIGNAL, a platform designed to empower individuals and communities through real-time insights, relational support, and self-determined change. VCEL (Volunteer...
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