Dr Jan Myers of the Northumbria University Business School presents her work on mapping memebrs of the Consortium, at the Annual General Meeting, 16/11/2016 at Gateshead Advice Centre

1. Member mapping
Dr Jan Myers, Newcastle Business School

2. Service delivery: geographical coverage
Twenty-two (55%) member organisations
completed the survey
Annual Turnover
• Over £5m - (3)
• £1m-£2m (1)
• £500K-£1m (4)
• £250K-£500K (6)
• £110k-£250K (2)
• £50K-100K (3)
• £10K-£50K (3)

3. Main
beneficiaries

4. Main services
and areas of
work

5. Financial capacity & stability
Reserves
◦ None (6)
◦ 0-3 months (6)
◦ 3-6 months (6)
◦ 6-12 months (4)
◦ 14 organisations will use reserves to cover deficit
budgets and core costs over the current financial
year (2016/7)
◦ 4 will use reserves to develop new projects

6. CHALLENGES
◦ Increased demand for services
◦ More demand, lower budget/reduction in income
◦ Meeting demands and sustaining/maintaining
service levels
◦ Ability to cover core costs in funding applications
◦ Constraints on staff time
◦ Building stability to allow for longer-term planning
◦ Ability to compete/competitive tendering processes
◦ Payment by results
◦ Ongoing effects of welfare reform and providing
services that the sector needs
◦ Personal budgets
◦ Reaching new markets
RESPONSES
◦ Finding and increasing funding streams
◦ Exploring new market opportunities
◦ Effective use of reserves
◦ Different work practices and innovation
◦ Restructuring
◦ Looking for opportunities to collaborate /work in
partnership.

7. Skills, expertise, experience
STRENGTHS - OFFERS
◦ Collaborative bidding, commissioning expertise, bid
writing
◦ Networking and collaboration
◦ Involvement in strategic meetings
◦ Local knowledge & intelligence: policy and data
◦ Help to give confidence to funders
◦ Impact evaluation
◦ Sharing good practice, lessons learned
◦ Leverage expertise to enable creativity and ability to
respond to new opportunities
◦ Business development – business and financial
expertise
◦ Policies, procedures, contract readiness, compliance
◦ Mentoring, specific training offers
GAPS - REQUESTS
◦ Support with bid writing
◦ Help to build collaborative partnerships
◦ Up-to-date information on funding
opportunities
◦ Increased profile: Promotion and raising
awareness
◦ Evaluating impact
◦ Blue Skies thinking opportunities: safe
space, creative interventions
◦ Business advice, business planning,
building management capacity, business
development
◦ Shared training opportunities

8. SUPPORT TO BSC - OFFERS
◦ Round table discussions
◦ To help with specific funding bids
◦ New partnership initiatives
◦ Project delivery and support
◦ Manage the social media for BSC
SUPPORT FROM BSC -
REQUESTS
◦ Networking opportunities and events – increased
connection between members
◦ Lead organisation in bids – develop networked bids
◦ Back office support
◦ Updates on member successes and news
◦ Social media (communication, networking)
◦ Collaborative design, bids, deliver (co-design, co-
production)
◦ Support building relationships with
commissioners/funders

9. Going forward…
◦ Review the overall aims, role and deliverables of BSC – sense check
◦ Consider how best to support collaboration between members
◦ Skills Exchange
◦ What are the priorities for action?