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General help and advice

Often community waste groups have successfully provided local waste management services in an unofficial capacity for many years. However, in many cases, partnership with a local authority can successfully develop and deliver these services to a wider percentage of the population.

Many community and public sector partnerships are achieving the following benefits, both for the organisations involved and the local community:

  • pooling of resources
  • best practice examples
  • more secure joint funding
  • greater efficiency and effectiveness
  • enhanced/extended service levels
  • greater employment for those marginalised in the employment market

This section gives links to information on general help and advice for community groups and public sector organisations who are working, or are considering entering into a working partnership agreement.

Links

Business Community Connections

  - forming business community partnerships - In this section you can browse information about all types of corporate community involvement, which is activity by which a private or public sector enterprise gets involved in charitable community causes

Charity Commission

  - Policy Statement on Charities and Public Service Delivery

CRED

  - useful links page includes CRED Fact Sheet 013 - Building Partnerships with Local Authorities (NB: CRED grants programme now closed)

Department for Communities and Local Government

  - 'Together We Can' action plan sets out the government’s commitment to empower citizens to work with public bodies to set and achieve common goals

Friends of the Earth

  - FoE give an outline of community strategies and local strategic partnerships

House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts

  - working with the voluntary sector Thirty–second Report of Session 2005–06 (pdf)

LARAC - Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee

  - national local authority organisation promoting waste reduction and recycling

National Council for Volulntary Organisations (NCVO)

  - 'Contracting for Public Service Delivery' one of the options available to voluntary and community organisations to generate an income and diversify their funding base with a view to achieving long term sustainability.

National Council for Voluntary Organsiations (NCVO)

  - a series of pages and documents offering comprehensive advice and guidance on collaborative working between organisations

Ourpartnership.org.uk

  - the partnership lifecycle – starting, running and ending partnerships

Ourpartnership.org.uk

  - promotes best practice for individuals and organisations working in partnerships between the voluntary and public sectors.

Partnership and Joint Venture

  - general advice and information about partnership working with local government in particular

Partnerships on-line

  - partnerships