Innovation Unit

Who we are

Innovation Unit is a social enterprise based in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. We work internationally, applying disciplined approaches to develop new solutions and create impact at scale.

We are outcomes and impact focused. We work with our partners and clients to deliver the tangible and measurable changes they, and we, want to see in the world.

Through our projects and ventures we identify, create and scale evidence-based solutions, mainly focused on:

• Children’s social care
• Learning & schools
• Healthy lives
• Early years
• Mental health

What we do

We grow and scale the boldest and best innovations that deliver long-term impact for people, address persistent inequalities, and transform the systems that surround them.

We do this by coaching leaders and their teams as they introduce difficult changes. And we help build local capability to ensure that new ways of working will be maintained long after our work is complete.

We work closely with people with lived-experience and frontline staff. Together, we dig deep to find root causes of problems, challenge assumptions, design and test new ways of working and help implement change.

We help organisations collaborate with one another and build strong partnerships that can transform a system or a place.

We work hard to navigate the cultures we work on. We adapt our own practices to the cultures of the places we work, seeking to enhance the power of those who understand their context the best. Our work recognises the capability of First Nations people and the strength these ongoing cultures bring to social change practices.

We achieve all of this by drawing on fifteen years’ experience working with ambitious organisations in the UK, Australia and New Zealand, and around the world.

The impact is better outcomes and experiences for vulnerable people and better outcomes for the wider system.