It's been bubbling away beneath the surface but now social impact Scotland is a thing. ⁦@GerryHamill14⁩ and Lorraine Gillies have joined me in this enterprise aimed at prevention

During their careers, each police officer is likely to encounter between 400 to 600 traumatic events. Most citizens will experience between three or four in their lifetime.

A first for me "LinkedIn live" with ⁦@GerryHamill14⁩ and @lorrainegillies discussing all thing social impact and the opportunities for Scotland this lunchtime

Surely the way to tackle this is to reduce demand? How - proper investment in prevention activity delivered by 3rd sector - social impact funding provides an alternative to make this happen and recognises the 3rd sector as an equal partner

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I filed a lawsuit against Riot Games on the basis of consumer protection laws. It may be able to push through policy change at Riot via a Court Order.

Perhaps @rccglasgow and @claudiamacd should look at a new funding model rather than the traditional grant funding route. Social impact products support charitable work across the world but Scotland has been late to develop these. Let’s have a chat…

I had a very enjoyable visit to one community Scotland today to visit their new premises. They have plans for a new project and wish to explore social impact funding #excitingtimes

We stand in horror as the job we loved and uniform we wore is further tarnished by these people

@LucyGoBag @celiaparker65 Understanding the terrain. Joining up the dots. Mapping service provision and creating dynamic partnership collaborations. The public health philosophy needs rigorous investment if sustainable change is to ever be a viable goal @MerseysideVrp. We need to see investment levels

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Social Impact Scotland aims to change that. We will put business capital with charitable services underpinned by the savings from the public purse that comes from the outcomes that are delivered. Charities will be an equal partner and a key player in setting the strategic aims 5/

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As you have previously highlighted in your excellent column, there is an answer - social impact products, big around the world including England and wales but not yet in Scotland. 4/

The system itself makes little sense “supply a homeless service for £x” - output based not based on outcomes….”support x number of people to leave the homeless sector”. 3/

They have little ability to influence and cut costs continually to retain contracts. Smaller charities doing localised work in the main are constantly threatened by their larger competitors who have greater ability to reduce costs for procurement purposes 2/

The problems here are long in the making @NeilMackay whilst they do this work their contribution is not recognised. They rarely get a seat at the strategic table and short term grants or procurement don’t offer the stability to retain staff or plan business development 1/

There may be another way to move to a preventative approach but I haven't seen it! With social impact third sector organisations get properly funded and recognised at strategic level - if not this then what?

Especially when honest truth conflicts with felt reality — where subjectivity is elevated above universality.

This utilises a funding mechanism that is not widely known in Scotland but is changing lives across the world! No bidding, no procurement, no grants - socio-economic progress based on outcomes and non diminishing funds - interested? Let's chat....

Great to see @HopeCollective2 team meeting @DCMS last week. We have long believed social impact projects are way forward especially with place based investment portfolios The Hope Collective is a progressive membership cooperative looking to shape policy & delivery #LegacyOfHope

I want my country back… From the racists From the bigots From the liars From the inciters From the pedlars of hate

@SpiritofLondon @grok @JohnLoughton Out and out the best opening talk at a @HopeCollective2 Hope Hack @JohnLoughton @ChairHC epitomised everything the Hope Collective stands for. Why the establishment funders dont understand and in one particular case push back against us repugnantly #TeamHope

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