Birmingham City Council · Awarded contract

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Real-Time Community Listening on Mental Health and Cost-of-Living Impact for Birmingham City Council

Awarded 10 Mar 2023

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Awarded10 Mar 2023

Value£53,370.00

SupplierBritainThinks

AgencyBirmingham City Council

RegionWest Midlands

CategoryHealth & Medical

Ended 3y 1mo ago7mo term

Awarded 10 Mar 2023Expired 6 Oct 2023

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Birmingham City Council awarded a contract to BritainThinks for a qualitative real-time listening project titled 'The Price we can't Pay: Real-time community listening to understand the impact of the Cost-of-Living crisis on Birmingham's mental health and wellbeing.' The contract, valued at £53,370, ran for 6 months from 01 02 2023 to 01 08 2023.

The project involved setting up a 4-month real-time community listening exercise via video diaries and written blogs with participants from across Birmingham, including recruitment and report writing.

Deliverables included weekly short video diaries from 20 participants submitted via an app, written blogs every six weeks hosted on the Council's mental health pages, payment to participants for their contributions, and an end report collating the research.

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