Collaboration Benefits

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Collaboration Benefits
Programme overview
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What is Collaboration?

• Any situation in which people are working
  across organisational boundaries towards some
  positive end
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  (Huxham and
  Vangen, 2005)

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What is the Collaboration NSS ?

• One of 9 National Support Services for the Third
  Sector funded by Capacitybuilders
• A partnership between 4 organisations, led by
  bassac
• Developing the capacity of infrastructure/
  support providers to reduce costs and enhance
  service delivery

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Who is involved?

• ACRE - Action with Communities in Rural England
• bassac British association of settlements and
  social action centres - (lead partner)
• IVAR - Institute for Voluntary Action Research
• CFN - Community Foundation Network
• CES - Charities Evaluation Services (critical
  friend)

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What is the programme?

• Resources - Collection dissemination of good
  practice
• Skills - Training and developing support
  providers
• Action - Developing clusters to test innovative
  collaborations

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What is a cluster?

• Cluster- defined membership, collaborative
  action, largely informal but strong
• Informal Group - open membership,
  networking/information exchange
• Consortium/Partnership- closed membership,
  specific outputs, contractual /formal structures,
  formally agreed roles

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Resources

• At www.bassac.org.uk/collaborationbenefits
• A growing collection of searchable case-studies
  and resources relating to collaborative working
• Will include evidence learning from
  collaboration clusters

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Programme Associates role

• Pilot cluster development support
• Sharing learning
• Delivering cascaded training

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The Collaboration Continuum
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Local community finance model
Rural Community Anchor A Parish Partnership
contract
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ACRE delivery strand
Programme Associate

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Cascaded training courses

• 2 day course standard format materials
• Materials programme mediated between ACRE
  shared learning generic Collaboration Benefits
  course
• 16 participants at each course
• Aim to qualify as formal Collaboration Benefits
  training

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Collaboration Benefits
Programme evaluation undertaken by IVAR,
facilitated by ACRE