1. The Consortium Landscape: a view from beyond Peterborough
Neil Coulson

2. The A-Z of Consortium-Working
Birmingham Blackburn Coventry Gateshead Leeds London Newcastle Preston Salford Sheffield Stockton Wakefield

3. Scope Sector-wide or sub-sector Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs)
Membership ownership and control
Commissioner investment

4. Drivers
Scale
Joint working at the frontline – improved services for client groups
Driving up standards
Building capacity
Strengthening competitive position

5. Challenges From culture of entitlement to culture of enterprise
Seeing ‘the bigger picture’
In it for the long haul

6. Greater Together CYP Consortium across Lancashire Idea emerged in 2011
Set up as formal consortium (‘super provider’)

7. Vertical Alliance
Commissioner
Managing Body
Frontline VCS Providers

8. Frontline VCS ‘Super Provider’
Horizontal Alliance
Commissioner
Frontline VCS ‘Super Provider’

9. Benefits of a horizontal model
Grass roots ownership and ‘buy-in’
Level playing field – mutualism, co-operation
Peer-to-peer mentoring/capacity building
Shared risk and reward
Creating a step change in VCS delivery capability

10. Greater Together’s approach to Localism
‘Local Rootedness’ criterion within Membership Prospectus
Large and small
National and local

11. Successes Over 70 members
Investment from Lancashire Children and Young People’s Trust Board
first contract secured - £700k for targeted youth support
2013 – investment from Social Investment Business/second contract secured - £2.5m for Early Support services
2014 – secured £1.5m Domestic Abuse contract; targeted youth support contract renewed
2015 – secured Impact Readiness Fund Grant in partnership with NCVO – expanding remit to encompass health and wellbeing

12. ‘Peterborough Plus’ Has all the ingredients for success:
clear evidence of community need
proactive, entrepreneurial working group
receptive commissioners
critical mass within the sector
capacity building support from the CVS