Collaborative working
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What are you trying to achieve?
- Sharing back office services
- Delivering your mission
- Public service delivery
- Merger
- Federal and branch structures
- Making more effective use of ICT
Useful tools
- Should you collaborate? Key questions
- Joint working agreements
- Staffing a collaborative project
- Due diligence
- FAQs
- ICT tools
Collaborative Working Conference 2008 -
Achieving together
Date: 22 October
Why come to the conference? Collaborative working is a key issue for civil society organisations, presenting both challenges and opportunities.
Come and explore the practice and potential of collaboration for civil society organisations.
What's new?
Key issues for funders of collaborative projects
There are particular considerations from a funder's perspective when dealing with collaborative projects, such as the importance of investing time at the early stages. This guidance has been written for funders who are considering supporting collaborative projects.
July 2008
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Joint working for public service delivery
This guidance describes how organisations can collaborate to deliver public services. The model focuses on the relationship between voluntary or community organisations and introduces areas they need to think about when jointly contracting with public bodies.
Joint working for public service delivery
Should you collaborate? Key questions
A checklist to help organisations decide whether to embark on collaborative working. It identifies the key issues to consider, giving an idea where problems might lie and enabling informed decision making. The checklist is a useful first step for organisations and those advising them.
Small organisations
Information and advice for people in small organisations:
Information on the work done by trustees, funding first steps, FAQs and relevant topics
External links
Charity Commission resources:
Merger
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Mergers: A guide to literature on mergers for voluntary and community sector organisations
(London Housing Foundation)
Anatomy of a merger (NAVCA)
Members area
Campaigning in Collaboration
Executive summary
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