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The Morden Youth Partnership Pilot Susanne Baccini, MVSC Youth Partnerships Development Support. The Morden Youth Partnership Pilot. 5 organisations : Endeavour, Asylum Welcome (SLRA), St. Theresa’s, Carers Support Merton (Young Carers Project) and Groundwork London
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The Morden Youth Partnership Pilot Susanne Baccini, MVSC Youth Partnerships Development Support
The Morden Youth Partnership Pilot • 5 organisations: Endeavour, Asylum Welcome (SLRA), St. Theresa’s, Carers Support Merton (Young Carers Project) and Groundwork London • Some had previous knowledge/awareness of each other; others engaged at LBM MYP July 2012 event which invited Morden pilot partnership formation
The Morden Youth Partnership Pilot Motivation for partnership working: • Enthusiasm and commitment for partnership working; • Opportunity to extend joint local offer - facilitate wider access to diverse activities for young people in Morden; • Sharing of local knowledge, staff and volunteers skills, time and resources; • Better co-ordination, signposting, joint events and publicity about local and borough-wide youth offer; • Partnership relationship with LBM Youth Service and development support
The Morden Youth Partnership Pilot Setting up of the pilot Partnership: • Numerous exchanges and discussions between potential partners to create Morden offer • After ideas and proposals sharing, each partner produced write-up of their agreed input, activities and project costings; one partner put together the joint partnership funding application • Individual partners worked with, and supported their young people to present their aspirations for the Morden Partnership offer to the funding panel • Separate SLAs issues by LBM Youth Service to partners
The Morden Youth Partnership Pilot How the Partnership co-ordinates its business: • Joint workplan, monitored through regular progress meetings; • Sharing of learning, and finding solutions to what does not work, or could/should be improved; • Sub-groups and individual contributions (eg. liaising with other providers in the local area); • Work with LBM Youth Service, and MVSC partnerships development support staff
The Morden Youth Partnership Pilot What is being delivered/will be produced: • Joined up offer enabling young people to widen their horizons, engage in new and/or different activities with a wider circle of social contacts; • Identification of gaps in provision and possible solutions; • Joint Partnership promotion /publicity, youth engagement and participation; • Partnership model development; • Joint outputs/outcomes monitoring; good practice and what doesn’t work log; • Pilot report and partnership evaluation (Apr13)