• Is your Partnership adding value or making unreasonable demands on its members?
• What needs fixing?
• What's next?Do you know?

Partnerships are proliferating everywhere! Yet to work in genuine partnership requires significant understanding of relationship building and considerable effort from its members. It needs proof of results. Many partnerships are relatively new and have members with vested interests. The results can be outstanding when it all works. Failure to invest in the Partnership will inevitably mean duplication of effort, loss of credibility and under achievement.

Potential Outcomes

• Evidence of improved partnership working and performance
• Increased understanding and commitment of members
• Mutual trust and support mechanisms

Potential Packages

• Scoped and costs negotiated on agreed results
• Personal advisor assignments such as:
  • Partnership establishment
  • Partnership growth/transitional phase
  • Partnership improvement/trouble shooting
  • Partnership restructuring/review
  • Partnership termination or mainstreaming
• Free membership to our learning network

Examples of Recent Work

• Phase two expansion of the UK wide Child Protection in Sport Partnership
• Warwickshire County Sports Partnership
• Staffordshire County Sports Partnership
• Review of core purpose of 45 County Sports Partnerships across England

Reading References

• Partnership Evaluation Tool Kit - IdeA 2003

Key Link

www.ourpartnership.org.uk