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Sickle Cell Society: Thinking about Collaboration …

This session aims to clarify collaboration issues, benefits, and risks, and develop action plans for successful collaborations. Discussions will focus on managing risks, setting goals, evaluating outcomes, and prioritizing areas for collaboration. Participants will learn about potential challenges and strategies to overcome them, ensuring successful partnerships. The session will also explore decision-making processes and provide guidance on identifying suitable partners and next steps for collaboration. Community Southwark offers training and support for groups in Southwark, Lewisham, and Lambeth, fostering stronger community connections.

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Sickle Cell Society: Thinking about Collaboration …

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  1. Sickle Cell Society: Thinking about Collaboration … www.communitysouthwark.org @cosouthwark

  2. Housekeeping • Mobile phones on silent • Toilets • Fire Exits • Breaks www.communitysouthwark.org @cosouthwark

  3. Aims of session Clarify which issues we want to collaborate on & why Think about the benefits and risks involved How can we manage the risks? Action Plan: goals, outputs and outcomes How will we manage our collaboration? How will we evaluate how well it’s working? What are the next steps to take this forward? www.communitysouthwark.org @cosouthwark

  4. Priorities for collaboration identified so far: • Fundraising ? • Membership ? • …….. ?

  5. Why collaborate? • Increase local impact? • Share/develop skills and experience? • Build capacity ………? • ……….? • ………. ?

  6. Collaborate … with which group/s? • Why collaborate with this group/these groups in particular?

  7. What are the risks? Having different end goals Different views on how to evaluate it Differing views about who does what/how Differing ideas about commitment/time Issues of control Issues of loss of identity Not understood/supported by members Reputational damage www.communitysouthwark.org @cosouthwark Sometimes collaboration doesn't work out for different reasons - ie because people have different end goals, or disag r ee about how to make it happen. Or there could be other possible disadvantages - such as a sense of the loss of a particular group's identify in the process, or a sense that  the group or individuals they are collaborating with,  are 'taking over'?   So it's best to identify/think about these issues  before going ahead and spending time and energy that may actually lead to strained relations between groups (or individuals)? 

  8. Decision • Do the benefits outweigh the risks ?

  9. Exercise: Should we collaborate? • On what? • Who with? • Why ? (Our aims; benefits) • Risks? • Decision

  10. www.communitysouthwark.org @cosouthwark

  11. Next Steps • ….Approach/get together with, a group you would like to work with your list • How to take this forward: Set up a meeting to establish an action plan- (see handout) with: Aims (outcomes and outputs): allocation of tasks: timeline; identify where extra support is needed from elsewhere ie fundraising (CVS) www.communitysouthwark.org @cosouthwark

  12. Next steps: Action plan See handout!

  13. How are we doing? • As well as your action plan, you will need a way of measuring if you are achieving your goals. • Develop a simple evaluation framework See handout!

  14. Exercise: Should we collaborate? • On what? • Who with? • Why ? (Our aims; benefits) • Risks? • Decision

  15. Community Southwark • Can offer free training and 2 hours free 1:1 support to member groups working in Southwark, Lewisham and Lambeth on all these aspects (fundraising, financial management, governance etc). £50 to others. www.communitysouthwark.org @cosouthwark

  16. Community Southwark Cambridge House 1, Addington Square Camberwell SE5 0HFdevelopment@communitysouthwark.org www.communitysouthwark.org @cosouthwark

  17. Q & A www.communitysouthwark.org @cosouthwark

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