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Positive Partnerships

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Positive Partnerships

“We’re urging every board of trustees to look creatively at ways of collaborating with others in order to make their funds work harder and to provide better value for their beneficiaries,"

Andrew Hind CEO Charity Commission

WHY ?

Your Experience & Examples of Partnership

What Was it For

What Did it Achieve

Would you Do it Again

Would You Do Anything Differently

• Age Concern Liverpool• Bradbury Fields• Nugent Care• Imagine• Merseyside Society for Deaf People• Henshaws Society for Blind People• PSS

WHO/WHAT ?

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……….the seven Partners have been trading for nearly 800 years.

(not the combined age of the CEOs !)

WHY ?

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Bupa Capita Anchor NCH Bar'dos Mencap Hsg 21 RSPCA 800 Gp

WHY ?

Liverpool CC

Tender 1102

WHY ?

• share opportunities and risk• provide a foundation for joint work• maximise efficiency opportunities• identify and develop new markets• increase market share & trading

capacity • raise profile & capacity to influence • pool resources & expertise

WHAT ?

• commit resources and creativity• communicate effectively and

consistently • share responsibility • sensitive to each another • act as a beacon to other VCF

organisations, sharing knowledge, experience and resources to build sector capacity.

HOW ?

HUB

HUB MODEL- Ideal

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HUB MODEL- Reality

ASSET BASED DEVELOPMENT

• Creating a New Monster• Quick • Easy• Downsize Exercise• End of Autonomy • Controlled• Lonely

NOT

• Communications• Fundraising• HR• Involving people• Procurement• Training• Quality• Intelligence

• Tendering & Bids• Brokerage• Development• Dementia Advisors• Shared Access – 7 Front Doors• Fund-raising

ACHIEVEMENTS

SHARED

BENEFITS –V- ISSUES

• Size/Scale• Profile• Influence• Flexibility• Sharing• Organisational

& Individuals

• see Benefits !!!+• Competition• Values• Structures• Confidentiality• Silos• Capacity

“It is amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares about who gets the credit”.

Robert Yates