Right Here (Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the Mental Health Foundation), Comic Relief and Nominet Trust wish to recruit an agency to develop and deliver two one-day Innovation Labs, to take place between November 2011 and February 2012.
The Labs, focusing on young people’s mental health, will be the first of their kind in the UK.
This ground-breaking project for change is giving young people a central role in the planning and delivery of the Innovation Labs. Young people will have the opportunity to work with mental health, youth work and design professionals to design digital tools that will meet their needs. The primary focus is to:
Help young people look after their mental health and access appropriate and effective support.
The Labs will be independently evaluated, and they may lead to new funding opportunities for development of the best ideas.
Young people from Right Here, Rethink, B-eat, Dipex and YoungMinds have been working with the partner organisations to design the specifications for the agency to take on this work. They will also be involved in the recruitment and selection of the agency, which will be expected to work with some of them in designing and delivering the Lab series.
There will be a two stage application process. A detailed proposal, with full costings, must be submitted to Susan Blishen, Project Manager, Right Here by 12 noon on Wednesday 7 September 2011. Following this, shortlisted applicants will be invited for interviews on Saturday 1 October. Planning of the Innovation Lab series will need to begin mid-October 2011.
Funding of up to £40k inclusive of VAT is available to plan and deliver two Labs, but the Project Team would be keen to hear from applicants about how they might add value, and would welcome ideas for other events.
Read the full document on how to apply (PDF file, 80KB).
Please contact Elise Leclerc at eleclerc@mhf.org.uk or Susan Blishen at sblishen@mhf.org.uk if you have any questions about making an application.