About Nesta

Nesta is an innovation foundation. For us, innovation means turning bold ideas into reality and changing lives for the better. We use our expertise, skills and funding in areas where there are big challenges facing society.

The Centre for Social Action Innovation Fund supported these innovations to use new approaches to "impact volunteering" to mobilise volunteers to increase and enhance the outcomes achieved by public services.

Evaluations of these innovations will be published from August 2016 onwards.

Published

Parents 1st - an impact evaluation of Parent 1st's asset based peer support programme in Essex and the Isle of Dogs

StreetDoctors - an impact evaluation of StreetDoctors, a national volunteer network of medical students who teach emergency lifesaving skills to high risk young people

Spice - an impact evaluation of Spice's time credits model

User Voice - an impact evaluation of User Voice's Prison and Community Councils