
Radical Childcare
Together, shaping the future of childcare
#RadicalChildcare is an initiative to explore, imagine and invest in bold new possibilities for the future of childcare.
Based in Birmingham, we want to work with parents, grandparents, professionals in the sector; commissioners, policy makers, educationalists, serial entrepreneurs and more to develop and test radical solutions to enable children and families to thrive.Why childcare matters
Childcare has become unaffordable, inflexible and simply not good enough for too many people. Like housing, it's one of the issues in modern life that makes families feel trapped, dictating the limits of their working practice and personal relationships. Together we can do better, by exploring new approaches built on trust, flexibility and shared resources. Together we can find out, if it takes a village to raise a child, what this modern village could look like.
A radical approach
There will never be a single silver bullet to address a systemic challenge like childcare. We aim to host a more optimistic conversation to re-imagine the future of childcare, bringing together lots of people and ideas across public, private and civic life. We hope to deploy financial, social and human capital to help develop imaginative models for future practice. We feel re-designing the childcare system is an idea whose time has come. Recent work shows an increase in focus and energy by citizens.A radical vision.
Culminating an initial 3 years of exploration, inquiry, conversation and continued experimentation, we have curated 10 interdependent investment areas that we believe need to be simultaneously invested in to radically transform outcomes for children and families, co-created and generated by a range of people as part of a two day design event that took place in July 2018. We are now working to secure investment into this vision which is available in full detail on a new website.#RadicalChildcare is convened by

Impact Hub Birmingham
Impact Hub Birmingham is a network of amazing citizens, makers, doers, entrepreneurs, activists and dreamers committed to bui…
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Impact Hub Birmingham
Impact Hub Birmingham is a network of amazing citizens, makers, doers, entrepreneurs, activists and dreamers committed to building a better Birmingham and a better world.

Famalam
F A M A L A M stages unusual cultural products, exploring the viability of new ideas in art, entertainment, parenting, play a…
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Famalam
F A M A L A M stages unusual cultural products, exploring the viability of new ideas in art, entertainment, parenting, play and learning for younger audiences and their families. F A M A L A M was founded by Creative Producer, Amy Martin and her (then) 9 month old son Theodore.
Impact Hub Contacts

Amy Martin
Creative Director, #RadicalChildcare Lead
Amy is a Creative Producer & Facilitator with over 10 years experience across a range of art forms. Amy’s most rec…
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Amy Martin
Creative Director, #RadicalChildcare Lead
Amy is a Creative Producer & Facilitator with over 10 years experience across a range of art forms. Amy’s most recent appointment was at Tate Liverpool to co-construct a festival with young people and over 30 of Liverpool’s creative organisations to audiences of over 15,000 people.
In 2015 she became a BOM (Birmingham Open Media) Fellow and part of the Innovate UK / Arts Council England funded arts & technology pilot at NearNow Studio in Nottingham. As founder of Birmingham SOUP, a microgranting dinner celebrating creative projects in Birmingham inspired by #DetroitSOUP, Amy is deeply committed to Birmingham and in finding ways to build resilient creative communities.
At Impact Hub Birmingham, Amy will be exploring the intersections of art, social impact and learning, especially advocating for the specific skills of artists within social innovation and systems change.
Her project FAMALAM explores parenting and play in the 21st Century and her work at Impact Hub will build upon her Co-Creche and Stay and Play season by exploring a new operating model for nomadic working parents and their children with an Impact Hub Parent Membership. Amy is interested in the role of children at the hub and creating a mutually beneficial and intergenerational learning community.
Amy is leading on #RadicalChildcare - an initiative to explore, imagine and invest in bold new possibilities for the future of childcare.
You'll probably find her at Hub talking about toddlers with Andy Reeve and Indi Kaur.

Immy Kaur
Co-Founder, Director of Mission Birmingham
Immy is passionate about new models of organising, bringing diverse, passionate and talented people together, creating unlike…
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Immy Kaur
Co-Founder, Director of Mission Birmingham
Immy is passionate about new models of organising, bringing diverse, passionate and talented people together, creating unlikely collaborations and local change based on global innovations, networks and knowledge.
When she isn’t doing Hub or building the city’s biggest TEDx community, she loves good coffee, great coffee shops, a lot of laughing and a bit of social media!
imandeep.kaur@impacthub.net
Cardiff University - Physiology BSc.
University of Birmingham - International Development MSc.
Past: Tony Blair Faith Foundation, Bromford
Current: Curator TEDxBrum, Civic Systems Lab, Impact Hub Birmingham