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Modelling fair and equitable
collaborations - Funded by The City
Bridge Trust
Modelling fair and equitable collaborations Funded by The City Bridge Trust
• The modelling fair and equitable collaborations meets the
‘Bridging Communities’ theme of the City Bridge Trust. The 2
year project will support and encourage BME and mainstream
VCOs in London to build collaborations and partnerships on
the principles of fairness and equality, resulting in cohesive
and rationalised services to local communities. The project
will develop resources and provide support to encourage a
shared understanding in the sector on how collaborations and
partnerships should be developed, implemented and
sustained. The project will indirectly benefit hundreds of BME
and mainstream VCOs in London who will have access to
project resources and who will be able to shape project
outputs.
Modelling fair and equitable collaborations Funded by The City Bridge Trust
• Activities will include desk based research, 4 expert interviews and 5
focus groups resulting in a scoping report outlining key barriers to
collaborations and partnerships between BME and mainstream VCOs in
London. 5 good practice case studies will be produced to share with key
stakeholders. A document on guiding principles and a framework for fair
and equitable collaborations and partnerships will be drafted and
available for consultation in the sector, online and through 2 events. This
feedback will then feed into a final principles document which will be
widely disseminated in the sector. The last phase of the project will
include the development of a training package, delivering 4 training
sessions and one-to-one support to 40 BME and mainstream VCOs.
• This project fits into V4CE’s wider aim to strengthen the BME VCS to meet
the needs of BME communities and more specifically into their “develop”
work; to improve the capacity and quality of BME VCOs by strengthening
their ability to deliver better and sustainable joined-up and cohesive
services to local communities.
Modelling fair and equitable collaborations Funded by The City Bridge Trust
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Phase 1- outputs (7 Months, Feb 2012-Aug 2012)
Desk based research- completed
4 expert interviews- completed
5 focus groups- completed,
Scoping research report produced - Barriers to Collaboration & Partnerships
between BME & mainstream organisations in London
5 case studies- 2 case studies completed,
Phase 2- outputs (5 months, Sept 2012-Jan 2013)
This is the next phase of the project, which will need picking up. The leads on
from the first phase and will consolidate expertise collated and produced to
develop the principles document that will lay the foundation for phase 3.
Draft shared framework
2 consultation events
100 responses from online consultation
4 funder interviews
Guiding principles produced