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 championed and...

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 and drop ins for...

Co-Production in the real world Here at Changing Futures Sussex, we wanted to use this week to showcase and highlight the amazing involvement and co-production work that’s happening around Sussex involving people with lived experience of multiple disadvantage. This week we’ll be sharing examples of good practice, creative, inspirational and innovative activities that people are doing, great resources, useful links, upcoming events and forums…in fact as much about co-production and involvement...