The Health Hackathon
Date and time
Location
SpacePortX
24-26 Lever Street Manchester M1 1DZ United KingdomDescription
Taking place on Monday 7th & Tuesday 8th September in central Manchester, Trafford Housing Trust, Numbers4Good and the Health Social Innovators partnership are bringing together a unique blend of CCG representatives, behavioural economists, health investors, designers, social entrepreneurs, housing associations, architects, charity leaders and web developers to design five new solutions that will reduce health inequality.
While traditionally associated with computing, our 'hackathon' will be framed around the health needs of real people, and together with you we'll seek to develop non-medical interventions that improve people's wellbeing and potentially save money for the NHS. By focusing on real people and problems, we hope to achieve tangible solutions to people's problems that could be scaled up and delivered across the North West. The end goal of the ‘hackathon’ will be five potential solutions, with the winner receiving a grant to turn the idea into a social business.
Benefits of coming along include:
• Participating in an innovative event that will have real impact
• Connecting with a unique and diverse group of attendees
• A chance to claim a £5,000 grant to turn one of the ideas into a social business
Places are limited and if you'd like to take part, don't hesitate to sign up.
Health Social Innovators Programme
The health social innovators' programme is supporting and accelerating the growth of promising, early-stage social health ventures across England in order to stimulate innovation and create positive change in healthcare. The programme is a collaboration between Healthbox, UCL Business and Numbers4Good, together with strategic partner Trafford Housing Trust, with backing from the Cabinet Office's social incubator fund and Janssen Healthcare Innovation.
SpacePortX is a tech co-working space for tech startups and entrepreneurs. We're here to help tech startups grow, disrupt and help change the world. For more information about how we can help, check out our website: http://spaceportx.com/
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Trafford Housing Trust (THT) is an independent housing company providing around 9,000 quality affordable homes within the Trafford area of Manchester. We are a “profit-for-purpose” organisation, striving for a society transformed, free from poverty, inequality and injustice. We are regulated by the Homes & Communities Agency (HCA).
Numbers4Good is an organisation dedicated to enabling finance to solve some of society's greatest challenges. We help charities and social enterprises become investment and/or contract ready; create social impact bonds; structure social impact investment funds and build accelerators to support early-stage ventures.