Working With Others
Working with other organisations is a great way to enhance the activities run by your group and will help you be more successful in the long-term. Whether it involves networking to share good practice, working in partnership on a joint project or providing services through a contract, the opportunities are endless.
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NCVO Collaborative Working Unit
A central source of advice and information about all aspects of collaborative working and merger.
www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/collaborativeworkingunit
NHS Health Development Agency
Partnership Working: A Consumer Guide to Resources
Partnerships Online
Guides to participation and partnerships, and creating online communities.
www.partnerships.org.uk
Our Partnership
A Cabinet Office project developed in partnership with NCVO to promote better working between voluntary and public sector organisations. The project has now closed, but still contains partnership working best practice: documents and links to information which give guidance on best practice for partnership working between the voluntary and public sectors in a variety of contexts.
http://www.ourpartnership.org.uk/anncmnt
IDEA - Improvement and Development Agency
Often has information about partnership working.
www.idea.gov.uk
Common Purpose
Common Purpose are committed to looking for leaders in unexpected places - and then exposing them to the information and the perspectives they need to be more effective. In the process, they meet new people, make new connections and find new ways of working with people who may not view the world in the same way. Common Purpose have a fundamental belief in the power of diversity. This stems from a conviction that real - and sustainable - answers only emerge when the widest range of viewpoints come together. So, when they recruit participants to any of their programmes, they deliberately bring together people from different sectors, professions, backgrounds and positions. For more information go to: http://www.commonpurpose.org.uk
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