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Thinking About Succession Gareth Potts, BURA
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Terminology Succession Exit Forward Continuation Legacy Sustainability – hardest to achieve
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Succession from What? Projects Programmes SRB / NDCs / NMPs European Commission (ESF/ERDF) Games/Events – legacy Other?
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Types of Succession Independence – commissioning/delivery Influence – determining service delivery Mainstreaming - and devolution / localisation/? Mainstreaming - and closure?
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Independence and the Uses of Income commissioning community chest cross-subsidy - rents election costs
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Sources of Income Assets Rents - Bradford, Shoreditch land sales – Manor and Castle, Sheffield Consultancy East Oxford Action – consultation (e.g. on road safety scheme) Contracts Greater Nottingham Partnership – EMDA contract sub-regional p’ship Action Acton – SRB funded that got employment project contract from LDA Section 106 Isle of Dogs Community Foundation Interest - put it all in the building society?! Ignoring the empowerment value?
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Organisational Form Company limited by guarantee Charity special treatment on tax, rates etc. often with trading arm Community Interest Companies (CICs) lock-in community interest test
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Transition Funds Huyton SRB – tapering funding to projects Identify ‘maintenance dose’ - minimum for survival Staff more employable/ less local may well leave handover notes – part of contract tacit knowledge [annual report / ordered files] ‘forces-style’ contracts / notice periods looking after the staff not likely to be required
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Change of Culture/Roles? one major funding source – with SRB / NDC etc. Entrepreneurial & multi-agency facing Accurate? project commissioner service influencer Different requirements of residents too?
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Support Rocket Science for LDA/GOL ‘How To’ Guide to Project Succession or Closure Readiness Assessment Tool(kit) NCVO Sustainable Funding Initiative Market Towns Initiative Succession Toolkit (AWM) Audit Commission Project Survival Toolkit Renewal.Net – e.g. Shoreditch Trust sustainability strategy
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Workload Who will do the work – locals? (mentoring/shadowing?) Who will volunteer? “I for one am certainly not in the business of perpetuating my role – I’d like to get a life” (NDC Chair late 2006). Need for succession to be desired by residents
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Influence Neighbourhood management – seat at table ‘neighbourhood management with money’ Parish councils – precept/Bradford Triggers - scrutiny Participatory budgeting – deliberative democracy more competition to be Councillors? Implications for organisational form? TARAs?
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Mainstreaming e.g. neighbourhood policing PCTs take on a lot Delivered locally? BIDs – Greets Green (crime) / London Bridge (public realm)
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Policy does regeneration policy solve problems? NRU contracts amenable to empowerment? NAVCA amenable to community voice/influence? 2006 WP
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Today lessons for succession planners recommendations for OTS/CLG/CSC what don’t we know the answer(s) to? Come up with radical suggestion? Legacy funding to retain people ownership / involvement / group projects
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Think about succession but...
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