Working together to achieve more
We believe that by working collaboratively on projects and initiatives with other organisations, we truly create opportunities for our customers and communities.
Our partners
Partnership working is key to creating communities and empowering lives. By working with partners to deliver projects and initiatives we can combine our knowledge and expertise to help communities to thrive. From health and wellbeing schemes to training opportunities – and everything in between – by working together we can create more life-chances for more people.
If you or your organisation has an idea for a project or initiative that will make a difference to the lives of our customers, don’t hesitate to contact us to discuss this further and see how we can help develop ideas in to workable models.
We work with different organisations on both a short and long-term basis. Our current, long term partners include:
- Cosmic
- Citizens Advice
- Digital College
- Driven Forward
- East Berkshire Employment Forum
- Bayswater Institute
- Golden Key
- East Hampshire District Council
- Gosport Food Partnership
- Multi Housing Association Partnership Group
- Smarterbuys
- Somerset Community Foundation
- European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
- National Career Service
- Yeovil4Family
- Westfield Community Centre
- West Country Savings and Loans
- Spark Somerset
- Southampton University
You can find out more about how we're working with some of our partners below.
The Bayswater Institute
We have partnered with The Bayswater Institute, a research and consultancy organisation with a focus on social science. Together we have provided a series of research reports that will support the community investment team to deliver bespoke community lead initiatives over a 5 year period. As a result of this work Bayswater have validated each report.
East Hants District Council
EHDC are leading on the Whitehill and Bordon Healthy New Town programme in partnership with a wide range of public, private sector and voluntary organisations including Hampshire County Council, Energize me and Community First. Throughout the programme we have been an integral partner in the delivery of a variety of initiatives and projects including the management of £100,000 budget to support local groups in response to COVID19.
European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
We're part of a partnership project called “Increase Valorisation Sociale” which has been financed by a grant from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and is made up of partners across Southern England and Northern France. This funding has enabled us to put together an award winning self-employment training programme called ‘Create’ consisting of workshops (currently being delivered by webinar) and a variety of post course support. The current funding runs to June 2021, but this may be extended to December 2022 due to the success of our ‘Create’ project.
Golden Key
In partnership with Golden we are delivering a Housing First pilot, Housing First is a model that offers unlimited support to people with complex needs offering them a safe place they can call home. Golden Key is a partnership between statutory services, commissioners, the voluntary sector and people with lived experience across Bristol. They work together to improve services for Bristol citizens with the most complex needs
National Career Service
Our partnership with the National Careers Service has been established to provide careers support to our customers and tackle unemployment across Sussex, Hampshire & Wiltshire. As partners, we are working together to support our customers, as well as anyone living within our Community Investment Zones, ready to engage with employment support and training. Through this partnership we are able to reach many people in communities including Salisbury, Gosport & Portsmouth, Southampton and East Hampshire.
