Merge-maker

Below is a list of third sector organisations who are interested in merging or collaborating with other organisations in order to deliver public services.

If you are interested in discussing the possibilty of merging or collaborating with one of the organistaions listed below please contact them directly.

If you are interested in being profiled on this page please contact Hannah Grant, email hannah.grant@futurebuilders-england.org.uk or tel  020 7842 7707.

Atlow Mill Centre for Emotional Education

Service delivery area: Education and Learning
Region: Derbyshire

About our organisation

Atlow Mill Centre for Emotional Education is a registered charity established in 1998 located in the heart of the Derbyshire Dales. Emotional Education encompasses emotional literacy and emotional intelligence, which refers to ‘the capacity for recognising our own feelings and those of others, for motivating ourselves and for managing emotions well in ourselves and our relationships’.

There is evidence to show that lack of Emotional Literacy affects intellectual performance, communication and social skills, not only in children and young adults, but in management, staff teams and business as a whole. Our specialist skills will be particularly valuable to organisations working to support the ongoing development of people. We work in partnership with organisations to foster ongoing personal and professional competence of their staff /clientele and further creating permanent attitude shifts bring about beneficial behavioural change which can be sustained.

What we are looking for

Due to funding crisis we are looking for an immediate cash injection through collaboration and or merger of the services we offer.

Contact details

Duncan Stuart, dstuart@atlowmill.org, 01355 370494

Consortico Limited

Service delivery area: All third sector market places - holistic
Region: East of England

About our organisation

Consortico Limited is a formal consortium where the ‘hub’ ‘Consortico Limited’ searches and finds public service contract opportunities, and consorts with its member not for profit organisations to win and deliver these under sub contract arrangements. The ‘hub’ also supports its member organisations to build their capacity to deliver public services under contract and carries out any required performance management responsibilities for the consortium.

What we are looking for

We are looking for not for profit organisations to come into membership, especially those that are already delivering services (contract or grant) to local authorities, the NHS, and other government organisations. We are also looking for Public Service Commissioners who need a ‘ready made’ consortium to approach us to explore how we can help their local third sector to engage with contract opportunities.

Contact details

Ian Curtis, ian@yourcvs.org; 01234 354366

Employment First

Service delivery area: Education and Learning, Community Cohesion
Region: London

About our organisation

Employment First is a community-led organisation established with the support of nationwide employment services provider Working Links. We are a well known and highly reputable community organisation based in Tower Hamlets, delivering services and providing facilities for the educational and social benefit of London’s BAME communities.

What we are looking for

We are looking for partnerships to tender for joint work together.

Contact details

Ekbal Ali, ekbal@employment-first.co.uk

GWB Products Ltd  – the trading division of CLARITY Employment for Blind People

Service delivery area: Health and Social Care
Region: London

About our organisation

GWB Products is a social enterprise and charity who employ disabled people to manufacture cleaning products and toiletries.

What we are looking for

We manufacture cleaning products and are looking for a collaborator who can supply the items we do not make, so we or they, can tender for cleaning product contracts.

Contact details

John Stutchfield, j.stutchfield@gwbproducts.co.uk , 07905 785948

Northern Pinetree Trust

Service delivery area: Health and Social Care
Region: North East England

About our organisation

Northern Pinetree Trust (NPT) is a registered charity incorporating Spirit of Enterprise a loan fund specifically for people with a disability who are wanting finance to help them start up in business. NPT is a specialist business and enterprise provider. It offers a range of business start up programmes for people who have a disability or who are disadvantaged and who generally will not, can not and do not access mainstream support without assistance.

It provides enterprise awareness activities through ideas generation and evaluation to help develop full business plans and access to finance. Its clientele includes people with a physical, sensory or learning disability; people with mental health challenges and hidden disabilities; people with dyslexic tendencies; young people with emotional and behavior problems; young people in special needs education; offenders; 50+; veterans; homeless and from disadvantaged communities where they are at risk of social exclusion.

What we are looking for

We are looking to work with communities who support similar client groups to ourselves where we can work in partnership to provide a holistic programme of support to individuals and to help them consider working for themselves (or to support organisations to consider establishing a social enterprise) as an alternative to traditional employment.

Contact details

Michael Leithrow, manager@pinetree-centre.co.uk, 01914928219

Nottinghamshire YMCA

Service delivery area: Support for Children and Young People, Community Cohesion, Education and Learning
Region: East Midlands

About our organisation

Nottinghamshire YMCA runs a variety of services for communities across both Nottingham city and the surrounding county. These include Youth Work (engaging young people at risk of exclusion, who may not be in education, employment or training, supporting young people with a range of issues), school work (encouraging good behaviour and a positive attitude to health and leisure), health & fitness (we run two gyms in the city, provide dedicated community physical activities, and ‘exercise on prescription’ across the city) and two hostels, in Nottingham and Mansfield, where it encourages residents to take up training and employment using various tools including a social enterprise coffee shop and ‘Learning and Skills Development Centre’.

What we are looking for

We understand that in the current financial climate and with funding and commissioning services developing the way that they are, it is important to seek out partners that add value and innovation to the projects and services that we currently run. As an organisation that works in a number of different fields, from youth work to homelessness/worklessness to health & fitness, we would be happy to explore collaborative projects with statutory, commercial or third sector bodies.

Contact details

Neil MacLaren, neil.maclaren@nottsymca.org, 0115 8553361

Options for Life

Service delivery area: Health and Social Care
Region: West Midlands

About our organisation

Options for Life is a charity who provide day service care for adults with learning disabilities, support services for people with learning disabilities who have their own home, a parent support service where both parents have a learning disability as well as a number of other services to adults with learning disabilities.

What we are looking for

Options for Life are interested in collaborative working, including partnerships, with other similar organisations providing social care in the West Midlands who would add to or compliment the range of services that we offer.  This would enable us jointly to bid for a greater number of public sector contracts and create the opportunities to share ideas and information.  We are not looking to merge at this time, however we believe that strong collaborative action is the way forward for smaller third sector organisations.

Contact details

Geoff Coleman, Chief Executive (initial contact by email through PA Alice.Bassett@optionsforlife.info)

SOFA (Suppliers of Furniture and Appliances)

Service delivery area: Community Cohesion
Region: East Midlands

About our organisation

SOFA is a charity that provides work placements for volunteers – particularly for people who are long term unemployed or disabled.  We provide work towards NVQs in Business and Admin, Customer Services and Warehousing.  SOFA collects donated furniture and electrical appliances, whereby saving them from going into landfill and then we resell them.  There is a discounted price for people who are referred from agencies such as social services, housing associations etc.

What we are looking for

As a learning organisation we comply with the Common Inspection Framework but as a small organisation our outputs are quite low.  We would like to put joint bids into the Learning and Skills Council so that we could add our outputs to someone else.  We are also working towards the Matrix standard for Information, Advice and Guidance and could join in a bid to offer advice towards employment. We could also work with projects that renovate furniture or that need furniture for hostels etc.

Contact details

Rosemary Blake, rosemary@sofareuse.org ; 01509 262557 or 01509 216208

The Sport Business

Service delivery area: Health and Social Care, Education and Learning
Region: North West

About our organisation

The purpose of The Sport Business is to get more people playing sport and to use sport to address wider social issues.  We work across sports and across the North West of England helping clubs, schools and local authorities to access external finance for the delivery of community sport activities.

What we are looking for

We are looking for partnerships with organisations providing frontline education, health and crime prevention services for groups of people for whom sport may act as a motivating and / or stabilising factor towards participation.

Contact details

Paul Smith, paul@thesportbusiness.co.uk; 07805 664064, www.thesportbusiness.co.uk

Stepping Stones Trust

Service delivery area: Crime
Region: London

About our organisation

Stepping Stones Trust is a Christian charity providing a 4 phase accommodation-based service for adult offenders, helping with the transition from prison to independent living.

What we are looking for

We have a vision for expansion UK wide and seek potential consortium partners for the provision of public service contracts with a wider remit such as those to support employment or drug and alcohol rehabilitation which work best and are therefore more cost effective if supported accommodation is provided.

Contact details

Mick Holloway; mick.holloway@steppingstonestrust.org.uk, 020 8253 0450

Sutton Community Transport

Service delivery area: Community Transport
Region: London

About our organisation

Sutton Community Transport provides accessible, safe and affordable transport to residents and fulfil the long term concern of all community transport schemes, which is to combat social exclusion.

What we are looking for

We are interested in collaboration with other like minded organisations. Community Transport is normally a means to an end i.e. We take people to where their social, health or other needs are addressed but the transport can often play an important role in meeting the needs of the client. Therefore we are very interested in collaboration and/or joint working with other organisations where transport plays a key role.

Contact details

Michael Skinner, michael.skinner@suttonct.co.uk

UBS (Universal beneficent society)

Service delivery area: Health and Social Care
Region: National

About our organisation

The Universal Beneficent Society (UBS) is a national charity, founded in 1857 by a group of philanthropists including Charles Dickens, to “assist in various ways those in necessity, of good character, without distinction of class, nationality or sect.” The UBS provides friendship and financial support to isolated and impoverished older people in our society.

What we are looking for

We are looking to create a dialogue between ourselves and any other organisation in the third sector. To enable us to develop our partnership service delivery to the people we help. We will be placing high value on our front line services being led by volunteering. With the aim of seeking delivery funding streams with public sector partners.

Contact details

Tina Dinch, tina.dinch@ubs.independentage.org.uk, 020 7605 4227