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Understanding Collaboration: Benefits, Challenges, and Strategies for Success

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This piece explores the significance of collaboration in the current socio-economic climate, focusing on its potential benefits and drawbacks. It details various forms of collaboration, such as selling, buying, influencing, and working together, while emphasizing the importance of clearly defined goals and strong leadership. The document identifies key issues for successful collaboration, including equality among partners, the development of trust, and clarity in responsibilities. It also discusses the impact of funding changes and the involvement of the third sector in public services.

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  1. Collaboration: the whys and wherefores, the pros and the cons Jon Goodwin Pentagon Partnership

  2. 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

  3. 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)

  4. Collaboration: what do we mean? Making things Better Together by: • Selling together • Buying together • Influencing together • Working together

  5. 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?

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. Working together • Networking – sharing good practice and intelligence • Referrals – joined up services • Better co-ordination & quality of services • Better reach

  9. 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

  10. 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!

  11. 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

  12. 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 Francesca@childrenengland.org.uk Your local CVS?