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Historic England invites you to a national conference examining how public funders can better balance appetite for risk with the ambition to work innovatively, democratically, and co-productively with communities. This is part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded 'Outreach to Ownership' research pilot, which explores how communities can be empowered to undertake research that will drive change in the arts, culture, and heritage sectors. Community empowerment, in emergent ‘levelling up’ initiatives or community wealth building commitments, is a key focus for both the UK and devolved governments. These policies increasingly ask communities to shape, participate in, and even take responsibility for the design and delivery of economic, social, and cultural services. However, enabling participatory, co-produced, work is not always simple. This kind of work presents inherent risks. It is often difficult to design and undertake genuinely innovative and co-produced projects within the structure of carefully costed funding applications and funders project management and reporting expectations. This full-day session will provide an open, safe space for representatives from funders, public bodies, and organisations working with communities to share their experiences of managing risk when developing and delivering innovative participatory or co-produced projects. It will ask whether existing funding models and their oversight arrangements adequately support co-production, and whether public sector organisations and funding bodies should tolerate more risk in order to promote co-production aims. Building on the themes of the recent AHRC-funded FailSpace project, it will also ask how we can build a culture where we can accept and share learning from failure as well as success. Admission is free, you can find out more and book a place via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/risk-management-and-fostering-innovation-in-community-led-projects-tickets-590328627817 Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=archives-nra