This week we celebrate the impact our Experts by Experience Co-production Service has had over the last four years as the project sadly winds down this August and we say farewell to three of our brilliant, passionate staff—Suzie, Sophie and Andrew. Given how much the project has achieved in its four-year run, we couldn’t say […]
Respiratory disease – particularly pneumonia and aspiration pneumonia – is one of the biggest causes of death among autistic people and people with a learning disability living in Coventry and Warwickshire. LeDeR (learning from lives and deaths report) is an NHS England service improvement programme for people with a learning disability and autistic people that […]
Welcome to Co-Production Week 2024! A collaborative way of working close to our hearts. At Grapevine, our Experts By Experience Co-Production Service offers learning disabled and autistic people opportunities to influence local decision-making and have a say on new services and strategies that have or will have an impact on disabled people. This involves co-designing, […]
Our third and final highlight for National Co-production Week is an ambitious plan to make the innovative NHS Dimensions tool – a free, self-care resource for adults, children and young people – work better for neurodivergent people looking for health and wellbeing support. Sonia and Samantha are experts by experience (EbEs) working together on improving […]
On World Autism Awareness Day (2 April) each year people around the globe celebrate neurodiversity in all its unique forms—helping to uplift neurodivergent voices, challenge misconceptions and stereotypes, and advocate for greater accessibility. We’re doing our small part today by sharing a brand new set of resources, co-produced by our experts by experience working alongside […]
Welcome to National Co-production Week (3-7 July) – back for its eighth year in 2023! An opportunity to celebrate effective co-production, share stories of when it works well and promote the huge contribution people using public services can make when their voices are heard and they can help shape those services to work better for […]
It’s Neurodiversity Celebration Week! A worldwide initiative aiming to celebrate different minds and challenge stereotypes and misconceptions about being neurodivergent. Many of the people we work alongside at Grapevine, including some of our team, are neurodiverse. We help them embrace their power and agency to make change. But we want to get at the root […]
We continue our National Co-production Week (3 – 7 July) series revealing more about our Experts By Experience (EbE) Co-production Service. We have around 60 experts by experience involved in a wide variety of co-produced work and while we can’t cover it all in one week, we are sharing some highlights that demonstrate the scope […]
“This all sounds so powerful – you are doing something very special.” Marzena Zukowska, co-director and co-funder of POMOC, commenting on the CYA Playbook, 2025 “What started as an experiment in youth-led organising became one of the most powerful, joyful and challenging parts of our work. “It highlighted new dimensions of co-creation and power-sharing that complemented […]