Succession Strategies for Rural Town Partnerships

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Succession Strategies for Rural Town
Partnerships
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Why do you need a strategy?

• Action Plan period ending
• Projects complete
• Outcomes achieved

Extend successful joined up working
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Why do you need a strategy?

• Action Plan period ending
• Projects not complete
• Outcomes not fully achieved
• Co-ordinators contract coming
  to an end

Extend successful joined up working
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What have you achieved?

• An inclusive Partnership
• A comprehensive Health Check
• A community led Action Plan
• Practical, realistic Projects

A more vital, sustainable community
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Dont forget the feel good factor Promote and
celebrate!
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Where do you start?
Where are we now? How did we get there?
Where do we want to be? What do we have to do
to get there?
Plan Act Review Plan Act ...
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The classic business planning cycle
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What do you still need to do?

• Confirm the need to carry out remaining
  projects
• Review options and costs - can you do it
  differently?

What is essential and what is desirable?
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What do you need to add?

• Follow on Projects
• New projects (needs led)
• Lobbying and influencing work (bending the
  mainstream)

AND.. Nurture your Partnership
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Another version of joined up working
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A Reduced Role for your Partnership?

• An overarching umbrella?
• First amongst equals?
• A lobbying group?
• A facilitator and supporter?

Effective communications essential
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Reduced Resources - Reduced Activity

• Partners take on all projects
• Partnership brings Partners together to share
  experience and knowledge
• Partnership represents town (and all Partners)
  at strategic level

Requires high levels of trust
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An option for strong partnerships
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An Extended Partnership?

• A Formal Structure (CIC, DTA?)
• Integration into wider Plans (Community
  Strategy, LDF etc)
• More Ambitious Projects
• Income creation/social enterprise

Essential to retain mandate of all Partners
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Reduce AND Extend?

• Redefine your purpose
• Drop non-essential activities
• Take on new responsibilities
• Set up new groups to move forward key issues

Could become a special interest group
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Review your staffing

• Share staff with Projects
• Other ways to operate - let the post evolve
  into something else?
• Create income e.g. manage other peoples
  Projects for a fee

Increase your income or reduce your needs
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Shape your new strategy

• A new Action Plan
• A funding plan
• A new way of working
• Commitment and energy

There is life after regeneration programmes!
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Where will the funding come from now?

• Government funding streams (ODPM, SEEDA, GOSE,
  Defra, AIFs, KCC, Local Authorities, Parish
  Councils)
• Lottery, Trusts and other grants
• Bending the Mainstream

Its out there - but you need help to find it
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A Succession Strategy to meet the needs of the
Town

• Maintain the partnership working
• Use the capacity you have built
• Bring on the next generation

Keep your town vital and sustainable
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Thank you for listening
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