Consultancy in Complexity
Collaborate CIC is a social change agency that helps people, organisations, services and systems to collaborate for social change. We try to influence the debate…
Evaluating systems change: developing a Maturity Model for Save the Children’s Early Learning Communities
Since Autumn 2019, Collaborate and NPC have been working as learning and evaluation partners to Save the Children’s Early Learning Communities. Our partnership combines Collaborate’s…
Watford’s Road to Renewal
Through 2021 the Collaborate team is exploring how learning from the response to the pandemic can move us closer to the vision of a Collaborative Society through…
The Hope Inquiry: Where the light gets in
The winter of our discontent As the number of deaths from COVID-19 in the UK heads well past 100,000, it is sometimes hard to recall…
Notes from the field: Oldham – Developing a collaborative Early Years strategy
Participation and ownership as keys to effective strategy One of the last pieces of face-to- face work Collaborate was involved with before the start of…
Risky business?
The topic of risk management would not be seen by many as an entry point into exciting conversations about the future of public services. So…
Building shared purpose: Rethinking learning and accountability
Following on from our recent blog post on the principles that can underpin a new approach to learning and accountability, here we explore the imperative and opportunity…
Collaborate CIC is learning partner to the Cornerstone Fund, supporting funders and funded partnerships
Collaborate CIC is learning partner to the Cornerstone Fund, supporting funders and funded partnerships to reflect on their systems change practice, act on what they are learning, and share this learning to influence for wider change.
Seven principles for a new approach to learning and accountability
In 2019, GO Lab and Collaborate CIC (with Northumbria University) each published reports which explored the move towards systemic and collaborative working locally: Collaborate and Newcastle Business…
It’s not me, it’s you: how the system needs to change in order to sustain and grow new models of public services
Late last year, Collaborate CIC and Nesta formed the Upstream Collaborative, a space for local government innovators to learn about, share and accelerate new ways…