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About us
Collaborate is an independent CIC focusing on the thinking, culture and practice of cross-sector collaboration in services to the public.
We care about outcomes and values, not sectors
Our work actively promotes services to the public that engage government, business and civil society, blurring traditional boundaries and prioritising outcomes over sector preconceptions
We support collaborative citizens
Our starting point is the voice of the citizen, family and community, and our approach will always look for ways to support their capability, independence and resilience.
We work with people who want genuine collaboration
Our clients and partners are people who want to collaborate to deliver better outcomes – we help them to make it happen through different thinking, culture and practice
We offer honest relationships, not pre-baked solutions
Our way of working is different – we believe that the best approaches are co-created; we work hard to convene networks, broker relationships and be ‘comfortable with uncomfortable’
We build readiness and unlock capacity
Our approach is to enable others to find their own solutions; we use independent evidence and diagnostic insight, then build capability in others to make delivery sustainable
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What we do
Diagnostic
We use deliberative research to hold a mirror to systems, organisations and people, developing clear insights and uncovering evidence to support action by asking the right questions
Shared Space
We hold the tension inherent in all good collaborations by brokering relationships between individuals and across sectors, enabling collaborative problem solving
Readiness
We help you do the dark work that builds collaboration, focusing on both behaviours and infrastructure, and working with both leaders and those operating across the system
Delivery
We help you develop approaches that deliver against your collaborative ambition – through impact evaluation, performance incentives, and accountability frameworks
Our thinking
Latest thought leadership
Public Service Spin-Outs 2014: Needs and Wants
Public Service Spin-Outs: Needs and Wants is a new report looking at UK 'spin-out' sector by assessing its needs, wants, obstacles and aspirations within public service delivery.
Managing Demand: Building Future Public Services
'Managing Demand: Building Future Public Services' explores the potential of Demand Management to address the unprecedented challenges of rising demand and changing demographics within a tough climate of fiscal constraints.
The Collaborative Citizen, 1st edition
In partnership with Ipsos MORI, The Collaborative Citizen makes a major contribution to the public services debate by arguing and evidencing the need to include citizens in the delivery of quality public services.
Most popular reports
Managing Demand: Building Future Public Services
'Managing Demand: Building Future Public Services' explores the potential of Demand Management to address the unprecedented challenges of rising demand and changing demographics within a tough climate of fiscal constraints.
‘From delivering services to collaborating for outcomes’ – Making Good
Collaborate's Executive Director Dr Henry Kippin contributes to the debate about the future of the voluntary sector in a full volume of essays, 'Making Good: the future of the voluntary sector'.
Beyond Big Contracts: Commissioning public services for better outcomes
'Beyond Big Contracts' explores the readiness of public service commissioners and providers to meet citizens’ needs in an increasingly complex commissioning landscape.
Latest blog posts
Because personalisation isn’t easy…
Sukhvinder Kaur-Stubbs, Managing Director of Engage-Us, writes for the Social Care Institute for Excellence ahead of the launch on Building Contingent Capacity, a report supported by Collaborate, University of Birmingham and Barrow Cadbury Trust.
To achieve the Global Goals, think Collaboration Readiness
Henry Kippin writes for Public Finance on why the Sustainable Development Goals present a challenge to all nations, and if they are to succeed, then policymakers need to start thinking and working in more collaborative ways.
The Groucho Marx challenge for public services
Collaborate director Henry Kippin writes for NewStart on how public services must face up to the current challenges of cuts and sustained social demand.
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