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Walk Score
Getting Londoners walking is at the heart of Go 10,000, the winning idea from the the Go London Social Innovation Competition. And now the Mayor of London has dubbed 2011 as the Year for Walking. After all, what could be a cheaper, easier, greener and more social way to get about for many of us.
As the [...]
Posted in Latest NHS GoLondon News Tagged go10000, golondon, innovation, london, Walk Score, web20 2 Comments
An update from Cycle Scholar Dan
After catching up with Nicola, we thought it would be a good idea to meet up with Dan, another one of the Evans Cycles Scholarship winners, as part of the Go London Social Innovation Competition. We swung by his office in central London to see how he was finding the City by bike.
Over a coffee [...]
Posted in Latest NHS GoLondon News Tagged @danhowe, cycle scholarship, evans cycles, golondon, interview, london 2 Comments
New ways to get moving: Health Innovation Week
As you may have worked out by now, we’re interested in what it takes to help Londoners to become more active and healthy. To help us with this, every so often it’s good to look further a field to spot exciting initiatives going on not just inside London, but around the world.
Health Innovation Week took [...]
Posted in Latest NHS GoLondon News Tagged global news, go10000, golondon, health innovation week, health20, innovation, london, Oyster, Splashpath 1 Comment
A catch up with Cycle Scholar Nicola
A few months back, three lucky Londoners won a cycle scholarship from our friends at Evans Cycles as part of the Go London Social Innovation Competition.
Nicola, Dan and Jo have dropped by every now and then to let us know how things are getting on – but we thought it was high time we had [...]
Posted in Latest NHS GoLondon News 4 Comments
Help choose the logo for the Go London winners
As one of the prizes for winning the Go London Social Innovation Compeition winner Danielle and her idea Go 10,000 headed to M&C Saatchi to begin designing the projects logo. Here’s what Danielle had to say about the experience…
“I spent the afternoon with Jonathoan Muddell, the creative designer who works on the Change 4 Life [...]
Posted in Latest NHS GoLondon News Tagged change4life, design, go10000, golondon, logo, m&csaatchi, prizes, social innovation 20 Comments
The Journey So Far: Guest post from Go London winner Danielle Ramsey
“Winning the Go London Social Innovation Competition with Go 10,000 has been an incredible experience, I truly feel we are on the verge of creating a project that has the potential to be a key player in the Health Legacy in London and I am extremely excited and passionate about making it a reality.
Initially there [...]
Posted in Latest NHS GoLondon News Tagged deloitte, go10, golondon, london2012, m&csaatchi, nhslondon, thinkpublic, year of walking 3 Comments
Eddie Izzard on how to become a London 2012 Games Maker
“London 2012 is relying on brilliant Games Makers to help us deliver a great Olympic and Paralympic Games.”
Seb Coe, LOCOG Chair
London 2012 is less than two years away, and this week the application process for Games Makers officially opened- a naionwide call out for enthusiastic people who want to be part of the ‘greatest show on [...]
Posted in Latest NHS GoLondon News Tagged Eddie Izzard, Games Maker, golondon, london, london 2012, olympics 2 Comments
85,000 take part in the London Sky Ride
Over the last few months, we’ve been tracking our cycle scholars Dan, Nicola and Jo as they get used to traveling around the City by bike. We’ve also been following with excitement the launch of the Barclay’s Cycle Hire scheme as well as the brand new Cycle Superhighways, which aim to make it easier for [...]
Posted in Latest NHS GoLondon News Tagged Cycle Superhighways, cycling, golondon, london skyride, Mayor of London, tfl 1 Comment
Go 10,000’s final prize session with Precedent (plus a brand new logo!)