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Devon Connect
Devon Voluntary Action
Devon Connect helps local people find nearby activities, services, groups and volunteering. Open to all, it is quietly transforming how Devon connects.
“Devon Connect is the one-stop shop but with a human touch. It’s been a fantastic journey and we’ve been supported brilliantly by Made Open.”
Marie Gould — Chief Officer of NDVS and Chair of the Devon Connect
Living Well Warrington
North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust
Living Well Warrington connects residents with local health and wellbeing services, community support and self-care resources. It was highly commended at the 2026 HSJ Digital Awards in the Reducing Health Inequalities through Digital category, and was also shortlisted in Driving Prevention and Early Intervention through Digital. Living Well Warrington received recognition at the HSJ 2025 Awards.
“Living Well Warrington strengthens our ability to work together as an integrated health and wellbeing support system.”
Stephen Bennett — Head of Strategy & Partnerships, North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust
Can Do Bristol
Bristol City Council
Can Do Bristol enables community action across the city, connecting over 10,000 people with their neighbours. Bristol City Council have extended the contract through to 2030 following its demonstrated impact.
“Over four years, Bristol City Council has averaged a volunteering investment of £317,776 per year via Can Do Bristol – and the true figure is likely to be much higher.”
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Wiltshire Together
Wessex Community Action
Since 2023, Made Open has provided ongoing platform administration and support for Wiltshire Together, growing active users from 1.9k to 10k and transforming it into a key piece of local digital infrastructure.
“Made Open are nothing less than first class! Their integrity, commitment and patience in building both the relationship with their clients and the community platform, means we have felt supported and listened to throughout our journey.”
Amber Skyring — Former CEO, Wessex Community Action
NHS Talent
National Health Service
A national NHS platform where talent is valued equally. This peer networking solution helps NHS staff connect, share skills, and advance their careers through timebanking and mentoring.
“We know that transparent and equitable mechanisms for offering bespoke support to staff from under-represented groups are needed across the whole of health and social care. That's why we built a national platform, based on timebanking principles, dedicated entirely to talent management.”
Karen Chummun — Head of Talent – London, NHS England
Future Towns Innovation Hub
University of Southampton
Based at Southampton Science Park, the Future Towns Innovation Hub is a hybrid innovation space - both digital and physical - designed to bring people together to shape happier, healthier and more prosperous places.
“It is a genuine breath of fresh air to work with Made Open. Engaging with a team and a platform built on a shared, purposeful vision, and a clear determination to make things happen, is inspiring. Made Open demonstrate what’s possible when collaboration and practical problem-solving genuinely sit at the heart of a service.”
Professor Clint Styles (MBA) — Associate Dean Enterprise, University of Southampton
Parents 1st UK
Parents 1st
Parents 1st is an open-access platform empowering perinatal peer support, sharing what works across the UK during pregnancy, birth and beyond. A community-led network for parents and carers.
“We want perinatal peer support to flourish and the awesome Made Open platform is helping us to make that happen.”
Celia Suppiah — Founder of Parents 1st
Design Out Drowning
Royal National Lifeboat Institution
Design Out Drowning was a community-led research project designed to help the RNLI reduce the risk of drowning around the UK and Republic of Ireland. Using co-design principles to improve water safety.
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Designing Communities
Design Council
A Design Council initiative to ensure community voices genuinely shaped future plans. Using design-led approaches to co-create with communities and drive participatory change.
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Golf In Society
Co-design Partnership
We partnered with Golf In Society to explore the challenges facing older adults and their carers, and co-design a service blueprint envisioning golf clubs as Health Hubs.
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Imagine This
Torbay Community Development Trust
A National Lottery-funded partnership bringing local organisations together to improve the lives of children and young people in Torbay through an Ideas and Imagination festival.
“The festival exceeded our expectations. Every time we looked around all we could see were people huddled around activities, deep in thought, action and conversation.”
Jo Morrell — Imagine This Programme Coordinator
Falls Prevention
Teignbridge District Council
Recommended by the Design Council, we set out to explore whether a design-led, preventative approach could reduce falls and improve home safety for vulnerable residents.
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Big Design Challenge
Design Council
Sponsored by the Design Council, the Big Design Challenge was a major initiative using design to address social, environmental and economic challenges across the UK.
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