The Enabling State Challenge is about showcasing and celebrating examples of good enabling approaches in action.
Five prizes of £5,000 each will be awarded to exemplary initiatives that demonstrate how to give communities and individuals greater control in a way that improves wellbeing. From these five winners one will be selected as an overall winner and will receive an additional £5,000 prize.
Since 2012 the Trust’s Enabling State programme has been exploring moves toward more flexible and responsive ‘enabling’ services and programmes that place citizen and community rather than provider interests first.
The Enabling State is a piece of work being undertaken by the Carnegie UK Trust exploring a new relationship between government and citizens, where citizens and communities have more control over their own wellbeing, and how the state (and others including the third sector) can play a more engaged and responsive role to help achieve it.
The Carnegie UK Trust have seen a growing awareness amongst policymakers and practitioners of the limitations of traditional ‘top down’ service design but also a gap between rhetoric and reality. The Carnegie UK Trust wants to narrow this gap and support a successful shift toward more effective enabling approaches in policy and practice.
The Carnegie UK Trust believe the Enabling State Challenge can start to do this by bringing together and celebrating examples of good enabling approaches in practice in the public, third and private sector.
For further information and to apply, visit: www.enablingstate.co.uk/enter/
Deadline: Friday 26 June 2015