Project: Local Authorities Socially Investing: Mersey and Cheshire

Grant: £52,900

The aim of this project is to identify the challenges, gaps and opportunities for social investment in Cheshire and Merseyside, so that it can help local organisations play a bigger, more impactful role in the delivery and improvement of the region’s public services.

The project will use the principles of participatory design to involve a wide set of stakeholders and consider how Local Authorities understand these challenges and opportunities. Capacity will utilise the example of Wirral MBC and Liverpool City Region Combined Authority investing in We are Juno CIC as an initial blueprint to explain how Local Authorities and other smaller, local investors have helped drive change in an area of challenging social care. It will take this blueprint and test it with Local Authorities across the region, understanding if and how this could become a model that they replicate.