Alice Casey

Alice is responsible for designing and delivering programmes that test radical new ways of supporting and scaling social innovation.

She currently leads the the Neighbourhood Challenge, a major new programme from NESTA, working with the Big Lottery Fund, to support community-led innovation.

This builds on her previous work at NESTA leading the final stages of the Big Green Challenge - a £1m prize fund to incentivise and support community-led innovation in response to climate change.

She has a background in participation and engagement, managing a range of research driven and practical projects at Involve that explored how public involvement in decision making can improve policy responses and public services.

She has a particular interest in how people are changing the society around them using new technology and new ways of organising, collaborating and connecting, and writes about this at http://cased.wordpress.com. You can find her on twitter at www.twitter.com/cased 

She is Chair of youth-led sustainability charity Otesha and a member of the national palliative care advisory group, people in partnership.