Accreditation:
- assures your customers and other stakeholders that you are an excellent organisation
- strengthens your brand and helps improve your reputation
- assures you of the partnership’s strengths and provides an action plan to address areas for improvement
- assures your customers and other stakeholders that you are committed to working effectively with others in the interests of a common goal
- confirms that your organisation is open and transparent and is committed to continuous improvement
The benefits of the Partnership Standard in a nutshell
- Reduce time incurred exploring setting up in partnership
- Develop a high-level strategic infrastructure for the partnership
- Identify and address conflicts and tensions which are potentially harmful to partnerships
- Achieve economies of scale
- Design and build an efficient and effective organisational infrastructure
- Build strong relationships between key players
- Enhance stakeholders’ confidence in the partnerships they work with
- Promote learning about partnership working for managers and staff
- Provide a diagnostic framework for managing risks in a partnership
You can call us on 08451 660 600 or email us on info@centreforpartnership.co.uk
Firebird JVC: a partnership set up in 2006, brought together with Accent, Leeds Federated Housing Association, Manningham Housing Association and Unity Housing Association.
The partners all have the same equity holding in Firebird JVC which exists to secure development funding for building new affordable homes in Bradford and Leeds. Since its creation, the partnership has successfully secured funding which has increased the supply of affordable homes in the region.
The Leeds Bradford Corridor Partnership was created in 2007 to participate in the Housing Corporation’s Challenge Funding competition to secure funding for new affordable housing. The scheme made a significant impact on unemployment in the communities involved.
The partnership brought together the Leeds and Bradford local authorities, together with Accent and West North West Homes Leeds’ ALMO.
The Holme Wood Partnership was formalised in February 2009. Members of the Partnership Board have been drawn from Incommunities, Bradford Council, the local Community Council and local residents.
The vision of the partnership is to work with stakeholders and agencies to ensure that local people are actively involved in ensuring that Holme Wood is a desirable place in which to live, work and invest.
