Here you'll find out what we're thinking and doing to support the arts, share learning across the health and social care sector and act on the climate crisis.

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Why social enterprise?

17 Nov 2022
By 
Jessica Rose

What if there were businesses out there that were putting people and planet before profit: supporting people through the cost-of-living crisis, employing and empowering minority groups, reinvesting in their communities, tackling environmental issues and improving health and wellbeing?

You may not know it but you're probably buying products from them, getting fit and healthy with them, enjoying arts and culture with them and getting support or working with them on causes you care about right now.

There are now more than 100,000 social enterprises in the UK, contributing £60 billion to the economy and employing about two million people.

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Sustainability and quality improvement in healthcare

18 Oct 2022
By 
Justin Brown

Sustainability in healthcare is particularly close to our hearts, and with 92% of the public supporting sustainable healthcare and 87% of staff behind the NHS Net Zero ambitions, it seems we’re not alone in this.

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Go plastic free this July and start the habit of a lifetime

4 Jul 2022
By 
Jessica Rose

Four years ago in July, my husband Dominic and I decided to try going plastic free for the month. From getting milk delivered in reusable glass bottles to switching to reusable coffee cups and water bottles, we haven't looked back.

We're lucky enough to live in Margate where we can buy a lot of things plastic free from the International Food Centre and the Grain Grocer, get our veg from Windmill Community Garden and take our reusable pint-sized tankards to the Sundeck. It's fair to say we're still going and I'd encourage everyone to try it - even just for Plastic Free July - to see how you can reduce the amount of single-use plastic in your life.

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Co-creation and how to go about it

2 May 2022
By 
Jessica Rose

DHL are using it to innovate and increase efficiency, the NHS is using it to improve self-management for patients with long-term conditions, while social enterprises and charities are using it to better tell the stories of their beneficiaries. Co-creation has been around as a term for several years now, but it's still only the most strategic and open-minded organisations that are using it well.

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Achievements and impact of Margate Bookie Young Producers

15 Apr 2022
By 
Jessica Rose

One of the things we're big on here at Co-relate is evaluating our impact. For us, this means understanding what we achieved, what we did well and what we could have done better. It means talking to the people involved in a project and learning lessons for next time.

The Margate Bookie Young Producers pilot project, in partnership with Margate Bookie and funded by Arts Council England, was Co-relate's first funded project since we became a social enteprise in June last year.

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