Collaborating for Social Change: building collaborative behaviours
Insights from the second of a series of conversations exploring the six foundations for effective collaboration We recently launched our Guide to Collaboration, a short…
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Learning resource: changing local systems to improve Early Learning Outcomes
Collaborate and NPC have published a new report sharing key insights from Save the Children’s Early Learning Communities programme. It is designed to be a…
Connecting people and places: how local authorities can work across place-based systems to alleviate loneliness
Darrell Gale, Director of Public Health for East Sussex, has just published his annual report ‘Connecting People and Places: Bringing communities together in East Sussex’….
Collaborate CIC and Involve are working together as an External Scrutiny Team during the development of the new 2024-2028 Grenfell Support Programme
We are an independent team, external from the Council, appointed to work with bereaved, survivors and the immediate local community, to ensure their voices are…
Come and join our free online event exploring collaborative behaviours
Following the launch of our Guide to Collaboration, we invite you to join us for a series of lunchtime conversations exploring the six foundations of…
Collaborate’s Summer Newsletter
Conversations and Connections Hosting conversations to spark debate and inspire collective action are a big part of the work we do here at Collaborate. The…
How Greater Manchester has achieved together things they could not have achieved alone
“Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) and its constituent member councils are the undisputed pioneers of English devolution. This success is built on a long history…
Collaborating for Social Change: building healthy, trusting relationships
Insights from the first of a series of conversations exploring the six foundations for effective collaboration We recently launched our Guide to Collaboration, a short…
How Redbridge Council enabled collaboration with communities by building a learning-led, self-managing team
Redbridge Council hopes to build a different kind of relationship with local people by creating new physical spaces that combine services (like libraries, children’s services…
Exploring equity, diversity and inclusion with Human Learning Systems practitioners.
Reducing inequity is a complex and ongoing struggle and one that requires our commitment and persistence. As the Human Learning System (HLS) approach develops, we…
Collaborate’s Spring Newsletter
Spring is in the air, and we have a lot of good news to share from Collaborate HQ! Firstly, we’ve published a new – and…
A Guide to Collaboration: the what, why and how of collaborating
Today we’re pleased to publish A Guide to Collaboration: one of the simplest, and also the hardest, things we’ve ever written at Collaborate! Hard because…
Putting learning and collaboration at the heart of local systems change funding
Further insights from our work with the British Science Association In January we shared the framework we’ve developed alongside the British Science Association (BSA), exploring…
Building a collaborative future
The perils of perma-crisis Times are hard. We know the headlines: climate crisis, the enduring impacts of Covid, the cost of living, war in Europe,…
Beyond project funding: how can funders nurture healthy systems?
Collaborate has been working with the BSA to help them identify what a healthy system for public engagement with research looks like, and develop a funding programme to support this. This is the first in a series of blogs to share our learning so far.
Systems stewardship in practice: What it is and how to get started
Are you trying to collaborate across organisational boundaries but getting stuck due to entrenched behaviours, structures and ways of working? The emerging practice of systems…
Embedding our values through driving more inclusive recruitment
What does it mean to try to embed values and culture in practice throughout our organisation to help further our mission to build a more…
How flooding spurred a rethink of the relationship between citizen and state in Test Valley
In our recent work with Test Valley Council, we found it inspirational to learn about how they’ve developed relationships with local communities and embedded this…
How can funders really shift power to communities? By losing control
Collaborate’s mission and work is focused on helping create a more collaborative and equitable society. In partnership with The Social Change Agency, Collaborate co-convenes the ‘Losing…
Learning from young people’s vision for public services. (TLDR: It’s not New Public Management)
Chloë Darlington, Policy and Communications Manager at Children England contributes this guest blog during Human Learning Systems Week. Children England’s mission is to change the world…