Plan b Workshop Dave Packwood

1. Plan b Workshop Dave Packwood

2. Introductions • What is your name • What organisation are you from • What is the turnover of your organisation • How long have you worked in the VCS

3. Why do we need a Plan B Think of income and resources within your organisation as cheese Cheese makes you and your organisation happy

4. Why do we need a Plan B Cheese makes you happy But someone has moved the cheese Story of: Sniff Scurry Hem Haw Which of these do you think represents you and your organisation

5. Why do we need a Plan B Previously there was lots and lots of cheese

6. Why do we need a Plan B Because someone has moved the Cheese • But someone has moved the cheese

7. Why do we need a Plan B What is your cheese, and where does it come from How has it moved?

8. Why do we need a Plan B The more important cheese is to you, the more you want to hang on to it Have more varieties of cheese – what percentage of your resources comes from just one source – rule of thirds Can you take what you do and deliver it somewhere else

9. Why do we need a Plan B The sooner you let go of the old cheese, the sooner you can find new cheese

10. Why do we need a Plan B What is new cheese for you Funding from trusts – small and large grants, don’t focus on getting what you want from just one grant Funding from local and national government Funding from companies – sponsorship Funding from individuals – donors, sponsors, legacies, young people Funding from other commissioned sources, health, juvenile justice Events Trading – selling services (make sure you have something to sell and that it is worth buying) Online funding – crowd funding, online giving

11. Why do we need a Plan B Can you share your cheese with others Get less of the cheese but more varieties of cheese through: Consortium working Partnerships Sub contracting Being spot purchased Through Personal budgets

12. Why do we need a Plan B It is safer to search in the maze than remain cheese less Can you work together to find new cheese and share the cheese you have

13. Why do we need a Plan B Move with the cheese – adapt and change • Can you use less of the cheese you already have - New methods, new systems, new styles • Different staffing models – volunteers, part time, sessional workers , apprenticeships, consultants, share staff with others • Co – location – sharing premises and costs • Joined up back office and admin, payroll, • finance, bidding etc

14. Why do we need a Plan B • Golden Rules • Change happens – they keep moving the cheese • Anticipate change – get ready for the cheese to move • Monitor change – smell the cheese often so you know • when it is getting old • Adapt to change quickly – The quicker you let go of old • cheese, the sooner you can find new cheese

15. Why do we need a Plan B • Golden Rules • Change – move with the cheese • Enjoy change – Savour the adventure and • enjoy the taste of new cheese • Be ready to change quickly and enjoy it again • and again • Because they keep moving the cheese

16. Why do we need a Plan B What other issues and questions emerge for you about developing your own Plan B

17. Plan B Workshop Dave Packwood dave.packwood@sky.com 07837035477