Aims
Aims |
The aim of Collaborate 2 was to look at ways in which small and medium-sized voluntary and community organisations can increase their resilience and get better value from their limited budgets by sharing resources.
The initiative was funded by Communities and Local Government and was aimed primarily at organisations delivering Supporting People services. It was not limited to SP providers, since we recognised that the most natural partners for them to collaborate with might be organisations working in related fields which were not receiving SP funding. In the event, however, all of the organisations which took part were SP providers.
Likewise, although the intention was to build the capacity of smaller organisations, we were interested in working with partnerships involving larger organisations and testing the extent to which they can take on a role as “community enabler”. Three of the four pilot projects involved working with larger partners in different ways.
The overall aim of the programme was to draw out the key learning from the pilot programme, and to develop a range of resources which could be used more widely within the voluntary sector.