 A2E Project NetworkThe 'Working Together' Event |
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Access to Excellence SRB6 hosted a networking event for projects working in Newham. The event featured six workshops covering topics as diverse as communication, management systems, future strategy, funding, training needs, and the local needs gap. You can learn more about who was there and what was discussed during the day by clicking ... |
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 Neil Best, Programme Director summarised the purpose of the day: "The changing nature of the regeneration agenda means that organisations are constantly obliged to find new and better ways of providing services to residents. "Challenge Funding" has created an atmosphere of competition amongst organisations when cooperation – sharing knowledge, expertise and resources- would be more effective. There is more to sustainability than knowing when the next bidding round is. Access to Excellence organised the Networking event as a way of prompting serious and creative thinking about what happens when SRB and other local regeneration programmes come to and end.The future for many organisations will be to work smarter and work together." |
 Paul Bramwell, the events keynote speaker from the Working Together Project in Brighton,
stressed the importance of co-operation rather than competition now the end of SRB funding is in sight: "During the first six months of Working Together in Brighton, I visited around 130 organisations, all busy delivering regeneration initiatives, but who had never really come together to share resources and pool ideas. We have come a long way in a very short time. I can see that this process of working together is beginning to happen in Newham; I am sure that the voluntary and community sectors will be all the stronger for that." |
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