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Collaboration Benefits

Led by bassac

The Collaboration benefits workstream provides training and support to community and voluntary organisations wanting to develop strong and successful partnerships.

 
Workstream partnership

Lead agency: British Association of Settlements and Social Action Centres (bassac).

Partners: Institute for Voluntary Action Research (IVAR), the Community Foundations Network (CFN), Action with Communities in Rural England (ACRE)

Key aims for 2008-2011
  • mutually beneficial evidence-based collaboration through the third sector and with the public and private sectors
  • discovering new and innovative models of collaborative working and undertaking new research on opportunities for collaboration
  • provision of training and support to build the skills of the sector around collaborative working.
 
Benefits for support providers
  • a raised awareness and understanding of the value and benefits of collaborative working
  • a useful and accessible resource concerning good practice in collaboration for third sector organisations
  • sector support workers gaining increased skills to facilitate collaborative working
  • successful collaborations, for example: joint back office functions
  • joint services
  • bulk purchasing between organisations
  • joint tenders for commissioned service delivery
  • local support partnerships working collaboratively to meet local frontline needs  
  • joint voice and advocacy functions
  • tackling environmental issues together.
 
Key opportunities for the third sector
  • finding effective ways to reduce costs and enhance service delivery
  • meeting current government policy on the voluntary and community sector (VCS) that requires genuine collaborative working between and across all sectors
  • meeting the need to develop and disseminate a range of tools, methodologies and national evidence base to enable collaborative working
  • overcoming organisation capacity limits as a barrier to collaborative working.