Supporting natural partnership progression over the five-year project delivery period, and to ensure the development of legacy structures.
Delivery Lead Organisation: Cam and Ely Ouse Catchment Partnership (Anglian Water)
Suffolk County Council have appointed Alison Farmer Associates and Resources for Change to carry out a study into options available to secure the long-term protection and management of the Brecks area of Suffolk and Norfolk.
A practical workshop covering:
1) Learning more about the major social media platforms and identifying the most effective for you.
2) Hearing tips and tricks and gaining best-practice guidance to help you build future content.
3) Gaining clarity and strengthening knowledge of both organic and paid social media approaches.
4) Discovering the hidden tools that can help support your proactive social media activity.
Workshop delivered by Keystone Marketing, Resources for Change and BFER.
To support natural partnership progression over the five-year project delivery period, and to ensure the development of legacy structures, the project will:
Year 1 – Facilitate the development of new and existing partnership structures by aligning aspirations, identifying need and benefit, and getting buy-in from partners,
Year 2 – Train partners in how to prioritise action, create a partnership action plan and overcome partnership issues, drawing on local best practice examples,
Year 3 – Engage partners on the process of building resilience within the partnership, with a focus on five-year planning, shared commitments and resourcing an action plan,
Year 4 – Support additional action through identifying fund-raising opportunities and collectively completing a funding bid for a ‘post-BFER’ partnership project,
Year 5 – Develop legacy structures within the partnerships, allowing momentum to be maintained and encouraging partner ownership).
The project will deliver a series of collaboration and training workshops across the five years, engaging with the Catchment Partnerships and volunteer groups to build capacity, facilitating the creation and up-skilling of new and existing partnerships within the Brecks wider landscape and enable the development of fund-raising skills which will ensure partnership sustainability and legacy beyond the project. Each year will focus on a different theme of partnership development, with guidance and advice being provided as a resource annually.
Alongside these activities, the project will also deliver the recommendations of the BFER Geo-Spatial Mapping Strategy which will allow project partners to map their various projects and share it with partners and other audiences
The strategy will:
If you’re a BFER partner and you’d like to get involved in this project you can sign up to take part:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/partnership-development-workshop-tickets-112924580460
Or contact us for more information or to be added to the BFER mailing list: bfer.admin@suffolk.gov.uk
Here is a series of practical guides to help you as individuals, groups and organisations to collaborate more effectively.
Below are slides from our workshop in April 2021 on Collaborative Fundraising
