Amelia Sanders
Amelia is the Executive Assistant to the Principal Partners at Participle. After completing a law degree Amelia started her career at the Crown Prosecution Service working alongside PA Consulting on a Government pledge to halve the time it took to deal with persistent young offenders from arrest to sentence. Amelia has eight years senior level secretarial experience and has worked within many industries from the Public Sector, Education to Professional Services.
Blog Posts
Learning from the Extremes - Charlie Leadbeater & Annika Wong
What we can learn from social entrepreneurs are innovating radically new ways to take learning into the poorest places in to the world. Commissioned by Cisco, Charles Leadbeater interviewed 100 social entrepreneurs seeking to meet huge needs without the advantage of traditional resources.
Trying to Be Responsible and Cutting-Edge, Too
Alice Rawsthorn, The New York Times
Seven ways to protect public services
Charlie Leadbeater, The Guardian
Putting the Social Back Into Services
Why it's time to put the social back into services
Interim report launch of Beyond Beveridge: Principles for 2020 Public Services
'Beyond Beveridge' is the interim report of the Commission on 2020 Public Services. It sets out the urgency for change, the limits of our current public services settlement, and the need for a systematic and long-term approach to reform.
Participatory Systems, Moving Beyond 20th Century Institutions, by Hilary Cottam
BIG IDEAS for the next decade: Harvard International Review
The World’s Most Influential Designers
Business Week names Hilary Cottam as one of the World's Most Influential Designers.
Camp Croydon
Participle's Youth project: Reach out
Video postcards from a town called Thriving
3 video postcards from a town called Thriving
On solitary
Social isolation? I'd rather physical abuse.
Meet like-minded people
Social networking for the over 50s
Watch me Disappear
C4 documentary on people living and dying alone
Kernels, cotton wool and latex gloves - Simulating ageing
New York Times article on a programme to sensitise organisations to older people by simulating impaired senses with glasses, gloves and corn.
Public services on the wireless
Community public service radio in Cornwall and Bankok.
The Apple Store for the Elderly
HOJO, a retail store targeting older people opens in Lyon, France.
Japanese elders turn to extreme sheltered housing option
Former prisoners would rather spend their time inside than out.
I retired too early!
65 year old Matador from Salford get's back into the ring