Working better together
SAFE are in the process of establishing a formal approach to business collaborations and partnership working:
“Organisations in the voluntary and community sector collaborate in many different ways, including:
- informal sharing of information and resources
- developing bulk purchasing arrangements
- developing joint functions such as IT services or voice and advocacy roles
- forming consortia to jointly tender for commissioned service delivery
- setting up a strategic alliance for joint business planning purposes.
The benefits of successful collaboration include greater efficiency and use of resources, improved services, a stronger voice and influence and organisational sustainability. Collaborative working should only be considered where there is definite collaborative advantage.
“Collaborative advantage will be achieved when an objective is met no organisation could have produced on its own and when each organisation is able to achieve its own objectives better that it could alone”
Huxham and Vangen, 2005
The assumption … is that the collaborative advantage for SAFE and their potential partners/consortium members relates primarily to improving the ability to trade, tender for public sector contracts and generate income for sustainability”
Colette Turner, 2009
Our Current partners
- Grow Your Arty Pants CIC www.artypantsworkshops.co.uk
- Singing Our Socks Off www.sosoclub.co.uk
- Andrew Banks (Art Time CIC)
- Moving On Up Productions www.movingonupproductions.com
- Dot-Art Services CIC www.dot-art.com
- Era Gallery CIC www.eragallery.co.uk
- Petticoats-a-Plenty www.petticoatsaplenty.com
- Stephanie Holmes www.eskimostephie.co.uk
- Particip8! NW CIC
- Jonathan Dawe (Periscope Productions CIC)
- Geni-i Creations Ltd www.geni-i.co.uk
Visit www.creativecommunitiesconsortium.co.uk for more information about the consortium.
