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How can we better share our resources, skills and assets to better effect?

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How can we better share our resources, skills and assets to better effect?

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Janet Gordon (Cumbria Cerebral Palsy)

David Allen (Cumbria CVS)

Sue Mason (WAF adult learning)

Elizabeth Harper (WAF local authority research support, with Team Barrow)

Deborah Tait (WAF)

Jane Lees (WAF)

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CCVS is very helpful with supporting our organisation

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if you work alone sharing resources and skills and knowledge is crucial, sharing best practice, no need to reinvent the wheel)

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being willing to listen and learn is important,

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time is a resource

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better communication is the key to good sharing of resources and skills,

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its challenging to understand what is there, especially assets, what is out there

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competitiveness is a barrier, in terms of offering and spaces, resources are held tight

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involving different groups, across sectors and organising around the topic

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shared calendar of events

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Appleby Community Hub is an example of good practice

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duplication or variance of same thing going on

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sharing needs to be deeper, on websites it looks like it is a collaboration and partnerships but it isn't

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need for deeper relationships are important for sustainabililty it a connected system

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new roles in the council - no knowledge of what is happening on the ground,

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there is lots of resources its difficult to find the right place

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lip service no hard evidence of actual collaborative, for many it is a tick box,

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fear of loosing expertise/power makes people overportective and not share

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poeple in the VCFSE are very modest, hard to blow your own trumpet, we don't admit we are experts

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power imbalance - fear of the council, big structure,

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high staff turnover in VCFSE and Council is a barrier to sharing knowledge

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fighting/competition for service users, related to meeting the targets

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lack of open dialogue - trust and relationships are key to having a good dialogue and collaboration

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meetings in person - visits,

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talking face to face, physical proximity spending time in sessions like today make a massive difference, its not an easy process

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human contact being lost in exisiting community spaces to get the word out about

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creating spaces