Resource library

Frustrated by the ineffectiveness of traditional service models and the reduction in public services we’ve searched for new solutions that unlock the abundant pre-existing resources in communities and solve problems for good.

Isolation has a toxic effect on people’s physical and mental health. Those with fewest assets fare the worst. At the extreme, social exclusion in the form of harassment and violence can lead to suicide.

Dance to Health is a falls prevention dance programme targeted at older people, established and run by Aesop. Aesop is a charity and social enterprise and its mission is to help health harness the power of the arts, as well as help the arts understand how to deliver health improvement programmes.

Current models of support and care are expensive, do not lead to greater independence for the individual, there is a lack of flexibility and they struggle to become rooted in the local area.

Asset-Based Areas see social care as a process of supporting people to support themselves and those around them, not a service system.

Social and community enterprises (SCEs) run shops and pubs, they provide transport, support fun activities, enable people to share accommodation and support them to be self-employed.

Sheffield Cycling 4 All offers all-ability cycling sessions to  people with disabilities in Hillsborough Park.

Co-commissioners in Asset-Based Areas explicitly seek to promote social value. What this means is that they (commissioners and people with lived experience) look at people’s lives as a whole and don’t focus on individual outcomes.

An NHS national network organisation that supports local people to become health champions

Allsorts provides an alternative vision to the reduction in day services and increase in learning disabled adults with no budgets, no jobs and no services. It also offers genuine choice and agency for those who posses personal budgets.