About
Better creative thinking means achieving more with less, creating faster, cheaper, better, or more sustainable solutions. It also the key weapon for overcoming bureaucratic or even stupid thinking.
The Forum’s services are delivered by world-leading creativity experts, share your ideas, and support our campaigns.
The Forum delivers its services across the UK and anywhere in the world.
It operates from offices in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan and Wakefield, West Yorkshire.
As a social enterprise we provide our services for other social enterprises and the voluntary sector at low cost or for free.
Recent examples include:
- a series of free talks for local businesses in South Leedsfor social enterprise Tiger 11. Each month, from June to December we provided inspirational talk sessions on the theme of ‘fastercheaperbetter’at theHillside business centre in Holbeck,Leeds. The initiative is devised by leading community regeneration agency Tiger 11 to connect with local business managers and community leaders to improve their abilities to spot opportunities, make more with less resource, and generate new ideas. Topics covered in the season programme include persuasion skills, opportunity spotting skills, coming up with new ideas, and even how to overcome bureaucratic thinking.
- a free creativity training event for charity Sue Ryder Care inLondonto train their regional communications team in opportunity spotting and idea generation.
- a free creativity facilitation for learning and development staff at Macmillan Cancer Care
Campaigns
The Forum also uses its limited resources to create media interest on the issue of creative flexible thinking. It undertakes campaigns during the year including:
Twixtmas – December 27th to December 31st encouraging people to use the five days between the Christmas and New Year holidays to do social good, in an age of time poverty. Check out www.twixtmas.com
Blue Monday – usually the third Monday of January. Symbolically, the ‘most depressing day of the year’, the Forum has used its creative skills to highlight how what is ostensibly a depressing day, by using flexible thinking it can be transformed into a positive opportunity. Check out www.beatbluemonday.org.uk
Stupid Aid Day – April 1st – still in its planning stages, the idea is to piggy-back on the traditional April 1st commemoration to highlight bureaucraticand inflexible thinking.
Thinkspot
The Forum also highlights a different Thinkspot issue to stimulate interest, challenge conventional thinking and provide a flexible alternative view on a topical issue.
