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ue Goddard, Programme Support Officer for Changing Futures Sussex, reflects on the final Changing Futures – The Next Chapter for Sussex event held in March 2026, which brought partners together to celebrate impact, reflect on learning, and look ahead with shared purpose, energy and confidence as the programme moves into its next chapter.

Lauren Payne, Project Delivery Officer for West Sussex reflects on the recent all areas Changing Futures Learning Event. “The best arguments in the world won’t change a person’s mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.” The latest Changing Futures All Area Event took place on the 5th February, focusing on storytelling as a tool for systems change. A group of us from the Changing Futures Sussex Programme team welcomed the opportunity to travel up to Birmingham fo

Artificial Intelligence & Multiple Disadvantage ‘It’s what you put in that counts!’ James Morton, Project Delivery Officer for East Sussex reflects on the recent all areas Changing Futures Learning Event. The Changing Futures National Learning Event took place on the 16th of September at Birmingham Conference Centre. This year the focus was on Artificial Intelligence and Multiple Disadvantage. The Changing Futures Sussex Team were well represented with the Peer Navigators f

"Feedback is the engine of improvement." — Unknown Sue Goddard writes and reflects on a project gathering all the feedback we have received about Changing Futures... I have been thinking about feedback lately. If I’ve managed to solve a problem or get a task completed and have positive feedback, it makes my day, I think about it for a while afterwards. I admit, I struggle with constructive criticism (I’m sure many people do) but if that same person balances criticism with som

The Value and The Risk In this post, we reflect on our journey of co-producing and delivering training workshops for a multi-disciplinary...

A New System Metric Louise Patmore, Systems Change Lead, Changing Futures Sussex & Maud Pedemonte-Ellis, Partnership Manager, Making Every Adult Matter (MEAM) reflect on a new way of measuring system pressure. Introduction The process by which we currently understand the system, is built on journey maps, case studies, or Swimlanes to track and evaluate a person’s experience of multiple compound needs (MCN) as they interact with services. These metrics are then used to infor

Sue Goddard, Programme Support Officer Changing Futures Sussex On a very rainy day at the start of February a group of us from CF Sussex and East Sussex travelled up by train to Birmingham to attend this event. The venue was ideally placed for both Birmingham New Street station and our hotel; an extra bonus was that it was in the Chinese quarter of Birmingham so the night before we were able to treat ourselves to a magnificent Cantonese meal. Here are a few snippets from the

Sue Goddard, the Programme Support Officer for Changing Futures Sussex recently attended the National Multiple Disadvantage Summit in London. Here are her reflections on the day... The Abbey Community and Conference Centre in Westminster. Multiple disadvantage is not an individual problem – it is systemic. System change refers to altering the underlying structures, processes and relationships that shape a particular system. It is used to address complex societal problems.

On 27th March 2024, the Changing Futures Sussex programme was awarded Silver Status from the Lived Experience Charter (a national award programme by NHS England/Career Matters) for our work with Peer navigators, Peer Support workers and Experts by Experience. However, this isn’t where the story starts and its certainly not where it ends! Receiving the award was the result of a journey that began even before Changing Futures Sussex did; a journey that began back when we champi

Holly Croydon, our Operations Manager in our Brighton and Hove Multi-Disciplinary Team joined four other managers from Brighton and Hove...

Sue Goddard, the Programme Support Officer for the Changing Futures Sussex recently attended the Learning Through Data Conference held on 6th March 2024 at The Abbey Community and Conference Centre, Westminster. Here are her reflections on the day... This was a networking and learning event and I wasn’t expecting the day to be as interesting as it was. The first presentation was Richard Lewis from MEAM – Making Every Adult Matter - The MEAM Approach Network - MEAM explained t

The new edition of the Changing Futures Sussex Newsletter is available for download. Hot off the press! Download it by clicking on the...

“Find people who have the energy to change the system, bring them together, empower and enable them to create change”. Rachel Sinkha, Finance Innovations Lab Following a rather stressful drive through unsettling weather, the clouds dispersed leaving a damp but now shiny and colourful Basingstoke town centre. Grabbing a coffee and entering a building I haven’t been in for well over 25 years. The team began to assemble in the lobby before going upstairs and being shown into t

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On the 19th July we held our first Changing Futures team event in Brighton. In recent months as team numbers across Sussex have been...

Louise Patmore, our Systems Change Lead, reflects on the People’s Summit with NHS Sussex held in April It is always a privilege being at the Amex stadium in Brighton on a sunny spring day with views of the downs and my old campus at Brighton University where I started this journey of systems change back in the early noughties. Today is the people’s summit for the Sussex Health and Care ICB (Integrated Care Board) the people’s summit is all about the people that work in all of

A flurry of links and reports for our last blog of the week! It’s the last day of Co-production Week today but certainly not the end of our co-production work or sharing what we’re all doing! We’ve got a couple more amazing examples and interesting resources to share with you today, but we will be continuing to share and promote co-production and involvement work for the rest of the programme – this week was a bit of launchpad for that. Using co-production to create groups a

Hastings and St Leonards Men’s Health and Wellbeing Project Co-Production in the Real World Hastings and St Leonards Men’s Health and...

Co-designing and developing workshops and training in Supported Accommodation and Refuge Co-Production in the Real World Jordan Isaac -...

Co-Producing Co-Production Event Co-production in the real world In March 2023, Changing Futures, Possability People and the SCALE...