Our Partners

Capacity is the North West’s leading public service redesign agency. The organisation prides itself on moving forward on the projects that matter: the ones that make the biggest impact on the lives of everyday people.  Set up in Liverpool in 2015 the organisation is fiercely proud of its ability to understand local people and places, keeping them involved in projects along the way. 

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In 2019 Capacity was approached by the LCR Children’s Commissioners group – with a mandate for wider market reform from the Directors of Children’s Services across the City Region – to help design a new approach that could meet significant local challenges in the residential market based on our track record in service design. Capacity secured a development grant from The National Lottery Communities Fund (TNLCF), which covered elements of the Feasibility Planning (including external legal advice costs), and took forward all other aspects (stakeholder engagement, data analysis, programme management, service planning and design) as a pro bono piece of work - because solving this issue sits at the heart of why Capacity exists. 

 

Capacity started this project, working with care-experienced young people locally, and the commissioners who are responsible for their care. That they all agree on one thing: we need to stop expecting change if we keep doing things the same way.

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Capacity went on to set up ‘We Are Juno CIC’, an organisation that is owned by the team who work there, meaning everyone has an interest in it being the best it can be. Over the following year, the funding model was developed and the team at Capacity worked to access funding to bring Juno to life across the Liverpool City Region, starting in Wirral.