The Beth Johnson Foundation offers specialist intergenerational services through its team of experienced consultants, trainers, development workers and researchers in areas such as:

  • Consultancy
  • Evaluation
  • Training and development and
  • Community development

Beth Johnson Foundation (BJF) works with Local Authorities and their voluntary sector partners to support the development of strategic, programme and project approaches to how intergenerational practice can support and enhance delivery of services and targets in their area.

Local authorities BJF has worked with inlcude: Manchester City Council, Southampton City Council, Derbyshire County Council, Staffordshire County and District Councils, and Leeds City Council.

BJF is currently working with Manchester City Council around the theme 'Ageing in Cities', and in South Staffs supporting their Impact Communities programme and delivering a range of training.

BJF works with national and local government to develop intergenerational strategies and key policies where intergenerational practice forms an important element. For example BJF is commissioned by the Welsh Assembly Government, the Local Government Improvement and Development (LGID) and a number of Local Authorities to support them in developing their intergenerational work and strategies.

For further information on consutlancy and evaluation contact:
Louise Middleton
Manager
Centre for Intergenerational Practice
louise@bjf.org.uk

Endorsement from Southampton City Council:
At Southampton, we’ve benefitted from Beth Johnson Foundation (BJF) supporting our Intergenerational Practice development in a number of ways over the last few years:

  • BJF set up and facilitated a regional Learning and Development workshop that became a network group of IP practitioners. It showed we weren’t alone in thinking we were onto something that delivers real improvements
  • We then used the group to challenge many new approaches we were trying out (e.g. testing our new Value for Money toolkit on an IP project)
  • They helped us plan and make the best use of our inaugural City for All Ages event, which proved extremely successful in switching on IP awareness across our city. We used BFJ’s reputation to help persuade other national experts to present papers to over 90 delegates who attended.
  • Since then, BFJ have provided practical Intergenerational Practice training to many of our SIGN (Southampton Intergeneration Network) practitioners, including a how to Train the Trainers course