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Next Steps 

A project to link projects.

Identify future support mechanism.

Royal Docks Trust Involvement.

There shouldn't be such a thing as an 'exit strategy', activities should continue and be mainstreamed.

Local Needs Gap

Overarching strategy of skills gaps analysis for the Borough.

LBN to subsidise training schemes.

Make  self-leadership /motivation an integral part of all training (NTN).

Lobby LSC to increase training portfolio.

Need a champion for this cause - Alison White, East London Business Alliance?

Local Business training.

Would like to see Excel & Royal Business Park actively engaging with local educators/groups to develop/engage work force in CT/CH (Alison White help?)

NACRO/NTN - ex Offenders in touch with training.

Regular themed, problem-solving monthly meetings - initially organised by A2E

A2E to provide project management & management systems training

NVSC / A2E to organise' Funding Days' (as in Brighton) 

NVSC to co-ordinate on what already exists in Newham - signposting

NVSC to produce sheets with contact details

Council Officers linked to projects to lobby at Council meetings to try to cut red tape:

• property
• legal
• planning

and feed back to projects.

Lobby the following groups:

• NTN
• LBN
• LSC
• NACRO

Funding

External funding bulletin: contact Paul Williams or Liz McManus.

Create a Single pot.

Strategic joint local bids.

Project managers meet monthly to exchange info on funding, funding applying for, to discuss areas of work, planned work, problems/solutions.

Workshop for SRB projects to access funding after SRB.

Set up a central, accessible source of information on funding.

Funding Day: for voluntary/community organisations, what funding available, criteria, access, advisory sessions to be organised by NVSC/A2E

Strategic Partnerships with local business to develop triple bottom line strategies.

Be more 'business minded' in our approach to operating and generating profits to go back into a 'pot' for funding.

Communication:

Directory of who does what / supplies which service for vol groups to use.

Meeting / Network of umbrella organisations - sharing of services & ideas.

Website / Database.

Rolling programme of communications and training seminars need to be set up.

Organisations coming together to evaluate, coordinate and link.

Marketing of SRB6 projects.

Sharing information with other organisations / referrals

Improve Website

Learning Needs

Organise Funding Fair (as in Brighton).

Quarterly SRB project managers meeting.

Have schools open 12 hours a day 7 days a week.

Renaisi to provide support.

Identify larger funding for training.

Management Systems

Funders to develop 'uniformed systems'.

Work out simple, easy monitoring systems.

Monitoring & feedback beneficiaries - aftercare: log what happens to them - trading system.

Partnership with local agencies - systems (database) and referral agencies.

Sharing information with agencies.

SRB - provide organisational support

Funding bodies offer some sort of training in management systems - databases, excel/spreadsheets

Provide aftercare to profile every year or equivalent

Programme originator (?LDA?) needs to recognise projects need to be able to count people outputs more than once

Write a simple financial package to report and record accounts

Training needs analysis review of each person

Long-term measurable outcomes - not short term & box them out

Create more synergy