Future proofing your organisation

communitymatters.org.uk

Future proofing your organisation

David Tyler, CEO Community Matters


Future proofing

Strategic and business planning

More business-like approach Try to involve all stakeholders Consider mission and values Income and expenditure – short/med/long term Try Can You Plan It? tool


Future proofing

Strategic and business planningShould include consideration of: Community buildings/assets Enterprise (trading) income Grant income Sponsorship and corporate support Reducing expenditure Contract income from service delivery


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Community assets

The key LA strategy nationally is rationalisation Retention and even development of some community

buildings either directly managed or transferred to community sector management

Gifts to sector of some buildings Sale of some others Demolition of remainder

Communities should be involved in rationalisation processSome buildings only viable through partnership with LACommunity Right to BidCapital costs an issue for many CAs


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Enterprise (or trading) Mostly primary purpose for CAs Separate trading company advisable for some

Grant income Trusts, foundations, lottery, A4A, Community Foundations,

Community First

Corporate sponsorship including in-kind support from local businesses

Reducing expenditure Buying clubs (energy, consumables etc) Shared back office services


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Contract income from service deliveryGovernment want more competition in public services to modernise their delivery to drive down control (commissioning) to lowest

possible level to encourage vcs and private sector involvement a relationship with our sector that is not about

‘hand-outs’ but more market based Our sector to add value - better local knowledge,

better relationships, commitment


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Contract income from service delivery CAs should seriously consider bidding to deliver a

range of public services Some grants already converted to contracts Contracts are a legally binding agreement and can

bring extra risk, complexity and administrative burden.

We recommend incorporation and review of insurance


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Contract income from service deliveryWe recommend CAs to engage Commissioners early: ‘use grant aid for services wherever possible rather

than contracts’ ‘don’t competitively tender small scale services

where no real market exists’ ‘minimise the paperwork and keep it simple and in

plain English’ ‘have simple monitoring and evaluation systems that

anyone can understand and operate’


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Open public services:

Individual Services services procured by individual beneficiary, eg. care, health,

education, skills training, childcare, housing support could include services that you provide issues of marketing, protection of vulnerable

Neighbourhood Services services locally provided and collective, eg community safety,

libraries, museums, parks, community centres, street improvements

commissioning by parish councils (or CAs?) who can also deliver


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Contract income from service deliveryA role for CAs in shaping and evaluating services?

Offer your services to Commissioners on: consulting community on service needs helping Commissioners to plan services helping Commissioners to specify the added social,

economic and environmental value helping to publicise services to hard to reach monitoring delivery helping with surveys and formal evaluation being part of a review committee


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Contract income from service delivery

Other considerations: Community Right to Challenge Payment by results – eg Work Programme Consortia - easiest way for CAs to get involved,

especially in larger contracts Social value


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Contract income from service deliverySocial value – be creative, persuade providers to: use community venues for meetings and delivery of

services use local or community businesses and local labour

for the supply of goods and services use you to tap into local networks invest in your organisation to build local social capital invest in the local self-help groups that underpin their

own work take exhibition stalls at community events


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David TylerChief ExecutiveCommunity Matters020 7837 [email protected]

Future proofing your organisation

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