The University of Brighton partner us in just about everything we do. Sometimes we even act as if we’re married. In terms of partnership working, we are as close as a separate organisation can be to the University of Brighton, especially the Centre of Resilience for Social Justice, the School of Health Sciences, and CUPP, who helped us get started. The School of Health Sciences shares some of its resources with Boingboing, and co-organises and hosts the Brighton Resilience Forum. And all our research is conducted closely with the University.
Many of our Boingboing volunteers, such as Angie Hart, Josh Cameron, Suna Eryigit Madzwamuse, Becky Heaver and Caroline Hudson, work in the School of Health Sciences. Some Boingboingers are doing their PhD studies at the University of Brighton, including David Glynne Percy, Josie Maitland, Steph Coombe and Anne Rathbone. Plus, Boingboingers frequently informally volunteer for the University in a mutual exchange, through teaching on courses without renumeration, supporting PhD students, attending university events and giving talks and workshops on our joint work.
It really helps our community-university partnership working to have so many people with multiple ‘hats’ or identities dancing cheek to cheek, so to speak. You can find out more about the Centre of Resilience for Social Justice in this short animation:
Community University Partnership Programme Brighton
The Community University Partnership Programme (CUPP) at the University of Brighton was instrumental in establishing Boingboing as a collaborative network and social enterprise, providing funding, advice and support.
Blackpool Council
Boingboing Blackpool is a really exciting new development that is now well underway. Blackpool were one of only 6 areas that were successful in bidding for HeadStart funding from the Big Lottery Fund, and they now have funding for 5 years to really embed and develop their plans.
The Big Lottery Fund HeadStart Programme
The Big Lottery-funded HeadStart programme gave local authorities money to support young people to cope with difficult circumstances. Boingboing receives funding to support HeadStart Blackpool to implement their resilience programme to support the children and young people of Blackpool.
Newport Mind
We provide training to Newport Mind on resilience and provide supervision to their family workers. Newport Mind is an active partner on many of our joint research projects with the University of Brighton, including the Imagine Programme and our Q-Sort Project.
ESRC – Economic and Social Research Council
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is the UK’s largest organisation for funding research on economic and social issues. It supports independent, high quality research which has an impact on business, the public sector and the third sector.
YoungMinds Charity
YoungMinds is a charity who are committed to improving the emotional wellbeing and mental health of children and young people. They have adopted our Academic Resilience Approach and provide training through their own train the trainer model.
