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22 March 2011

CO3, NICVA and Stellar Leadership have joined forces to form a new service called CollaborationNI funded by Building Change Trust. To launch this, CollaborationNI invite you to Better Together – a conference for organisations and their leaders who want to learn more about collaboration and what it has to offer the third sector.

30 March 2011 - 9.30am – 4.00pm NICVA, 61 Duncairn Gardens, Belfast BT15 2GB

CollaborationNI aims to support organisations in the third sector interested in working collaboratively, from informal partnerships through to full mergers of organisations. Support available from CollaborationNI includes advice, support, information, coaching, facilitation and study visits as well as more bespoke support packages depending on your need. The Better Together conference is an important start to this service and will begin the process of sharing practice, research and information to help organisations and leaders consider the role of mergers, collaboration and partnership particularly in the current economic climate.

As well as research evidence and examples of collaboration, the conference will include speakers from Volunteer Now, Age NI and the Shared Services Project. Experts from Northern Ireland and Britain including Nigel Newton Sawyerr, Collaboration Manager, bassac; Esther Ridsdale, Collaborative Working Development Officer, NCVO; Richard O’Rawe, Stellar Leadership; Jenny Ebbage, Cleaver, Fulton and Rankin; and Lyn Hagan and Jackie Smith from Goldblatt McGuigan, will lead sessions and share experience and advice with conference delegates. In addition, all those who attend will receive a free copy of the Good Practice Guide based on Age NI’s work to develop a new organisational culture in their merged organisation.

To download a copy of the conference programme and a booking form visit http://www.nicva.org/events/better-together-conference-consider-role-collaboration-third-sector. For more information contact Úna McKernan at una.mckernan@nicva.org or on 028 9087 7777.