A starter guide to co-production

Independent Futures (IF) is a group of people with personal lived experience of multiple disadvantage. IF members aim to empower clients and professionals in Bristol to make long term positive changes by sharing the learning from their own lived experiences.  

The “Starter guide to co-production” was created by Independent Futures (IF) in collaboration with Golden Key.  

In the guide, we explore IF’s learning around themes that they believe are essential to effective co-production, and discuss what we can all do to create the conditions for effective co-production to happen.  

We believe sharing this learning will provide an important foundation and support those across the system to collaborate successfully with lived experience groups to reach genuine co-production. We hope it will help everyone think about what they can do to co-produce successfully in their own context. We can achieve more if we work together.