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)
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:
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This is the first of a series of practical guides to help you as individuals, groups and organisations to collaborate more effectively.
A pair of workshops were held with stakeholders during the Autumn of 2020 to explore and learn from your previous experience of collaboration. We looked at what has worked well in the past, what has not been so successful, and what you’d like to improve or change about the way you currently collaborate.
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BFER Guide – How to Collaborate in Times of Covid
Here is the second series of practical guides and this one focuses on Fundraising.
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See below slides from April 2021 Workshop
Below you will find slides from an introductory digital mapping training session provided by Exegesis on Tuesday 20th April 2021.
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