From 26th-28th March 2010, over sixty people joined us for the Jailbrake weekend to help turn six ideas into prototype projects.
The People Speak came along to capture all the action for our Jailbrake film – enjoy!
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Three months in the making, six ideas, 48 hours, 60-odd participants and more cups of coffee than we can count, the Jailbrake weekend finished on Sunday 28th March with a dash to finish presentations followed by a fantastic Show and Tell pitching competition where our Jailbrakers demonstrated what they’d built.
We’ll be posting further details of our six projects built over the weekend in the next few days, but for now, here’s a taster:
Spill: starting out life as Phone a Friend, Spill became a phone-based peer-to-peer mentoring system built using Ribbit for young people who are at risk of getting caught up in the criminal justice system.
FLIP: a Facebook app for young people to tell their friends what their skills and talents are, which can be turned into a professional CV linking into job support.
Myfirstweek.org: originally called Service Signposter, this is a tool for helping match young offenders as they leave custody directly with housing providers with available accommodation.
Safe Ground: awarded first prize by the judges, Safe Ground is a platform to support a facilitated mediation process between victim and offender. They began the weekend as Common Ground.
Lost and Found: a mobile-based service providing young people at risk directly with crisis information they need about relevant local services such as accommodation or health care – and with a working demo tested live on the Show and Tell audience. The Lost and Found team were awarded second place by the judges.
Nudge Me: a text-based reminder service for young people on supervision orders to help them keep track of where they’re meant to be, when – complete with a demo tested on our Jailbrake judges at the end of the weekend. They started out life as MyPA and won an honorable mention at the Show and Tell.
Some thank you-s
This weekend was only made possible thanks to fantastic support from some great people who we’d like to say thank you to, including, but by no means only:
Alice Casey from Nesta for all her support; the Young Foundation and School for Social Entrepreneurs for their building and space; Dave O’Dywer for his trouble-shooting tech support; Unboxed Consulting, White October, Nonsense and Ribbit for helping to bring along some of our very hard working coders; the People Speak for their incurable curiosity; and our judges, Michael Chuter from the Foyer Federation, Penelope Gibbs from the Prison Reform Trust, Nick Keane from the National Police Improvement Agency and Adam Mooney from the Youth Justice Board.
But most of all, to all the young people who gave up their weekends for us including Cheyanne, Keisha, Sharna and Daniel from Islington Football Development, together with Yannick and Karl and the Young Advisors.
And, of course, last but by no means least, huge thanks to all the participants who came along and shared their skills, knowledge and passion.
But Jailbrake doesn’t end here. We’re hoping that we’ve kick-started some new teams who want to continue to grow their ideas.
So watch this space!
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We started bright and early at 9am this morning for the second day of the Jailbrake weekend.
The morning kicked off with a good breakfast and overview of what the next day and a half was going to hold. Then each of our six ideas hunkered down around the Young Foundation and set to work.
It’s been a day full of exciting conversations, meeting new people and building some – hopefully – Jailbraking ideas.
Check out some of the photos here and watch the commentary here.
Twelve hours later, they’re only just drifting home.
And we’ll be back again first thing tomorrow – an hour earlier thanks to Daylight Savings – and our teams will have until just 2pm on Sunday afternoon to finish their projects and prepare their pitches for the Show and Tell.
If you’d like to join us to see what they’ve created, make your way to the Museum of Childhood, Cambridge Heath Road, just by Bethnal Green Tube at 2pm, Sunday 28th March.
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