Peak Partners - Aims and Objectives ::

Operational Aims and Objectives

For each Area of Work the partnership has developed a series of objectives that follow through into a series of actions – some of these represent ongoing activity while others are new.

The objectives define the core activity of the partnership, while the actions describe what it will do to fulfil those objectives.

All the actions have been defined in terms of:

Status – ongoing or outstanding
Priority – high, medium or low
Scale of the action – small, medium or large
Timescale – now (next 6 months), soon (6-12 months) or later (12-24 months)

Further detail has been developed for the ‘now’ actions – further work is required to complete the same task for those actions commencing later in the action plan period.

Area of Work 1 – Partner Organisation Support

Aim: To provide mutual support in order to help partners work more effectively within their own organisations.

Objectives:

To identify and promote quality standards to ensure the delivery of quality services.
Identify and take advantage of opportunities to share and hence make efficient use of resources across the partner organisations.
Identify and share good practice and find ways to build on this mutual support for the benefit of partners.
Provide opportunities to share skills and experience in order to assist individual partners with specific management or delivery issues / priorities.

Area of Work 2 – Identifying Gaps and Initiating Projects

Aim: To be proactive in identifying and responding appropriately to gaps in service provision.

Objectives:

Increase partnership’s knowledge and understanding of needs and gaps in service delivery.
Share information and approaches with relevant external partners.
Increase partnership’s knowledge of existing services in the area.
Work together to find the appropriate response to gaps in service provision

Area of Work 3 – Renew and Develop Relationships between Member Organisations and other Agencies

Aim: To ensure that organisations have a greater knowledge and understanding of the contribution that infrastructure organisations make, and that this is valued and resourced.

Objectives:

To raise the strategic sector’s knowledge of infrastructure organisations’ functions and activities.
To develop and implement a strategy to achieve sustainable funding for infrastructure organisations.
To develop and understanding of the external environment, and how to influence strategy.
To achieve a strong and coherent voice for the VCS which will influence strategy.

Area of Work 4 – Develop an Effective and Trusting Relationship between Partners

Aim: To improve partners’ knowledge and understanding of each other’s activities and positions to develop mutually beneficial working relationships.

Objectives:

To promote joint working between partners.
To share information about partners’ own organisation and current work programmes, priorities and objectives.
To develop a trusting relationship between partners to share skills and explore strengths and weaknesses.
To share information about links with and the work of strategic agencies.
To share information about themed networks and partnerships.

Area of Work 5 – Internal Partnership Management

Aim: To manage the partnership effectively and efficiently within available resources.

Objectives:

Ensure that Peak Partners continues to be ‘fit for purpose’.
To enable parties to be equally involved and respond to external challenges and opportunities.
Agree terms of reference for partnership meetings.
Agree and review roles and responsibilities of partners.
Develop and review partnership action plan.
To have a communications strategy.