Scaling Intergenerational Connection

InCommon是一家将几代人聚集在一起的慈善和社会企业。我们的愿景是帮助创建互联，包容和年龄友好的社区。在过去的5年里，我们制定了代际计划，将小学生与退休之家和当地社区的老年邻居聚集在一起。我们正在申请赠款资金，通过支持更多人开展代际计划来扩大我们的社会影响，这些计划可以改善老年人的福祉和与社区的联系，作为支持晚年社会联系的挑战主题的一部分。我们的计划是由所有年龄段的参与者通过迭代，共同设计过程形成的，并已连接了1800多个年龄段的人。我们通过代际评估领域的领先专家Ali索默斯博士的独立评估，验证了它对老年人和儿童的积极社会成果。我们相信，与不同一代人的联系有可能使更多的人受益。为了扩大我们的影响力，我们开发了一种模式，其中InCommon支持其他组织与当地合作，提供适合其社区的代际活动。重要的是，我们的创新平台和支持模式将通过减少管理项目所需的时间和成本，并最大限度地提高合作伙伴为项目带来的价值，使这些项目在财务上更具可持续性。InCommon将开发一个创新的在线会员平台，供当地合作伙伴访问资源并简单地管理项目的行政管理，同时提供个性化支持，以使项目启动和运行。该模式将支持小学、住房协会、养老院和其他社区组织之间的灵活伙伴关系，使每个项目都扎根于当地社区。作为该项目的一部分，我们将：* 支持一批当地合作伙伴在20个地点开展代际计划，作为学习过程的一部分。在每个地点，一所小学将与居住在退休住房中的一群老年人建立联系。总共有125名以上的老年人和200多名儿童将相互联系，共同学习。进一步开发我们的在线平台，以管理运行程序的后勤工作，从安排合适的日期到提供适当的活动，同时确保有效的保护和监测社会影响。评估该模型的成功，并为将来扩展以支持更多的本地项目做好准备。

InCommon is a charity and social enterprise bringing generations together. Our vision is to help create connected, inclusive and age-friendly communities. Over the past 5 years we have developed our intergenerational programme bringing primary school children together with their older neighbours in retirement homes and local communities.We are applying for grant funding to scale our social impact by supporting more people to run intergenerational programmes that can improve older people's wellbeing and connection to their communities as part of the challenge theme of supporting social connection in later life. Our programme has been shaped by participants of all ages through an iterative, co-design process and has connected over 1800 people of all ages. We have validated the positive social outcomes it has for older people and children through an independent evaluation from Dr Ali Somers, a leading expert in intergenerational evaluation.We believe that there is potential for many more people to benefit from connecting with a different generation. To scale our impact we have developed a model in which InCommon supports other organisations to partner locally to deliver their own intergenerational activities, adapted to their community. Importantly, our innovative platform and support model will make these programmes more financially sustainable, by reducing the time and costs involved in managing projects and maximising the value that partners bring to the project.InCommon will develop an innovative online membership platform for local partners to access resources and manage the administration of the project simply, alongside personalised support to get projects up and running. This model will support flexible partnerships between primary schools, housing associations, care homes and other community organisations so that each project is rooted in its local community.As part of this project we will:* Support a cohort of local partners to run intergenerational programmes in 20 locations as part of a learning process. In each location, a primary school will connect with a group of older people living in retirement housing. In total, 125+ older people and 200+ children will connect and learn together.* Further develop our online platform to manage the logistics of running programmes, from arranging suitable dates to providing appropriate activities, whilst ensuring effective safeguarding and monitoring social impact.* Evaluate the success of the model and iterate it in preparation for scaling to support more local projects in the future.