Dear CareSpacers, I need your help please with a feature I'm writing on personalisation for an upandcoming issue of Community Care.

I want to put together a list of 10 of the more unusual ways that direct payments/individual budgets have been used to meet the needs of service users. If any of you know or come across over the next few weeks any innovative ways this is being done then please can you email me about it. Ideally, I'd like to use the name of the authority that is funding the service/package but if that's not possible then anonymous information is fine.

I look forward to seeing your posts and thanks in advance.