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Improving Support magazine

Improving Support Magazine brings together insight, practical resources and learning for people who are involved in supporting charities, voluntary groups and social enterprises and those who fund and commission their services.

It is published by Capacitybuilders and is available free of charge.

Each edition of the magazine is theme-specific so that you can use it as a reference resource on an ongoing basis to help inform your work.

Hot off the press

The latest edition of Improving Support Magazine focuses on the topic of Local Partnerships.

To deliver a vision of a Big Society, effective partnerships and creative collaboration between support providers, serviced commissioners and organisations working in local communities will be vitally important.

Collaboration across sectors leads to more effective engagement with local policy and planning and delivers more joined-up services and can help secure more sustainable funding streams.

Improving Support Magazine looks at:

• opportunities for local community based organisations to deliver public services and shows how even small organisations can use partnerships to get a foothold in local delivery
• ways of promoting meaningful involvement in local decision making
• the benefits for service users when the public and third sectors work together.

To view a digital copy of issue 3 of Improving Support Magazine, please visit the links below:

Improving Support Magazine - Local Partnerships

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Where to get support – resource directory

Every issue of Improving Support Magazine highlights a range of useful resources and tools featured on this website as well as elsewhere on the web. To find out more about the resources listed in the latest edition of the magazine, please visit the Local Partnerships - Resource Directory.

How you can get hold of a copy
You can request free copies of the magazine by becoming a member of this website.

Back issues available (free of charge)

To view back issues of the first two editions of Improving Support Magazine, please download the PDFs below. If you would like to receive free copies of these, you can request them by becoming a member of this website. If you are already a member, please email us : info@capacitybuilders.org.uk

Issue 1 : Collaboration

The potential benefits of collaboration in terms of better service delivery, efficiency gains, value for money and increased capacity to compete for public service contracts are huge.And as a result of the economic downturn, the collaboration debate has been bought into even sharper focus.

To view a digital copy of issue 1 of Improving Support Magazine, please visit the links below:

From changes in funding to the election of a new Government in May, support organisations are having to prepare in order to adapt and respond to new challenges and opportunities.

This issue looks at how changes like these will affect they way people work over the next five years and how the sector can help to drive change and how charities respond to the social change they help to create.

To view a digital copy of issue 2 of Improving Support Magazine, please visit the links below:

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