Partnership Working

Community Arts North East England works in partnership with communities and other organisations to deliver a more 'joined up' or integrated service. We can then build and work in “community art” and work together putting creativeness and life back into society.

It is also important that we understand when a formal partnership is an appropriate way of working and when it might be better to work in a more flexible, practical joined up way

Reaching out
in a “joined up” way!

• Partnership working allows services to be delivered in a joined up way. This has benefits both strategically, in terms of providing a well-balanced service and operationally in terms of pooling resources.

• Bringing together the various parts of service delivery provides a unique opportunity to develop new and innovative approaches to service provision.

• Economies of scale can be achieved as service providers pool not only resources, but effort and managerial time.

• Through coming together and focusing on a common goal, a shared vision is formed of what partners want to achieve and how they want to achieve it.

• Partnership working co-ordinates action between organisations which can provide additional momentum to get things done.

• In time, partnership working can add a ‘special touch’ to the delivery of a given service, over and above the time and resources that have gone into its provision.