Stronger Together: A Co-production Toolkit from Ageing Better

Ageing Better have launched the Stronger Together toolkit co-created by the 14 national Ageing Better programmes across England as a one stop, user friendly space where collective experiences are shared.

The toolkit brings to life the work of Ageing Better programme in a way that can be accessed by anyone wanting to work with people in their communities, whether at a strategic, operational or grassroots level.

The toolkit is organised into 12 distinct co-production themes:

• Creating a co-production culture
• Community development through micro-funding
• Tackling ageism through co-production & age friendly communities
• Co-production within coastal & rural communities
• Tackling loneliness through co-commissioning
• Empowering communities through partnership working
• Co-researching within the community
• Growing sustainable groups
• Diversity& inclusion
• Creativity in co-production
• Asset based community development
• Co-production in a crisis

This toolkit is for anyone looking to use a co-production approach to involve people in the design of services, projects or activities that impact them and their communities.