Getting ready for collaboration: Learning from experience

Getting ready for collaboration: Learning from experience has been written to help staff, trustees and volunteers from voluntary and community organisations (VCOs) to get ready for working in collaboration. The guide should help with all forms of collaboration – from sharing information and developing a common policy response to mergers.

We decided to produce this guide because organisations have told us that they gain more from collaboration when they are well prepared from the outset.

Getting ready for collaboration can help you and your organisation to:
 
• make an informed choice about whether and how to work in collaboration with another VCO
• think carefully and thoroughly about the process of working in collaboration, so that any possible change to your organisation can be safe, inclusive and cause minimum disruption
• become more aware of the practical implications and requirements of collaborative working.
 
For more information on the Collaboration Benefits Programme run by bassac click here.  
 

 
To download the publication click here