collaboration: the whys and wherefores, the pros and the cons
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Collaboration: the whys and wherefores, the pros and the cons. Jon Goodwin Pentagon Partnership. Contents. Context - Collaboration in the current climate Collaboration: what do we mean and how can it help? Drawbacks What helps? Key issues to address Support. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Collaboration: the whys and wherefores, the pros and the cons
Jon Goodwin
Pentagon Partnership
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Contents • Context - Collaboration in the current climate
• Collaboration: what do we mean and how can it help?
• Drawbacks
• What helps? Key issues to address
• Support
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Context - Collaboration in the current climate
• Reduced overall funding – need to make savings
• Contract culture – reduced grant funding
– Fewer, larger contracts (geographically and thematically)
• Big Society – third sector involvement in public services (design and delivery)
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Collaboration: what do we mean?
Making things Better Together by:
• Selling together
• Buying together
• Influencing together
• Working together
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Selling together
Responding to funding and business opportunities
• Grants
• “Fewer, larger” contracts
• Often the initial driver of collaboration
• Collaboration between small organisations or between large and small?
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Buying together • Buying power and sharing of resources
• Purchasing together
• Sharing services
• Sharing staff
• Co-location
• Economies of scale and efficiency savings
• Attractive to funders
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Influencing together • Influencing policy, strategy and funding
• Evidence and intelligence
• Joined up thinking and a coherent voice – powerful
• Influencing service priorities and service design
• Influencing service and funding structures
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Working together
• Networking – sharing good practice and intelligence
• Referrals – joined up services
• Better co-ordination & quality of services
• Better reach
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Drawbacks
• Equality between partners
• Loss of identity?
• Culture clashes – differing values, cultures
• Risk – financial, reputational?
• It takes time and money up front before you feel the benefits
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What helps?• Clearly defined aim - vision and focus
• Leadership – an organisation(s) prepared to drive things forward
• Support – if possible from outside the partnership
• Equality between partners
• Positive experiences in existing networks and relationships
• Buy-in from the right people
• Getting the right results – soon if possible!
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So... Key Issues to address• Identifying the aim(s)
• Roles and responsibilities – who is going to drive this forward?
• Developing trust and agreeing values
• Clarity around structures and processes, responsibilities and decision-making, ground rules and protocols
• Write all of this down!
• Model - informal network, lead agency or new hub?
• Get external support if possible
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Support and information
Locality: Connect For
http://locality.org.uk/projects/connectfor/
NCVO Collaborative working project
www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/advice-support/collaborative-working
Better Together
Your local CVS?