PARTS Project - Pathways to Advance a Robust Third Sector
Our project aim is to increase the resilience, particularly the financial resilience of third sector organisations (TSOs) in Aberdeenshire. It will do this by:
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Taking stock of the state of the art on developing TSO financial resilience and prepare a position paper, building on grey and academic literature and customising findings to the Scottish and Aberdeenshire context
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Co-constructing with third sector actors a typology of TSOs in the area based on the types of activity they pursue and the ways in which they seek to develop financial resilience
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Identifying good practice examples and identifying individuals from the practice community to provide peer-to-peer support to TSOs building on local knowledge of successful TSOs
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Developing thematic workshops dealing with specific types of TSO, which co-construct pathways towards financial resilience for a range of TSOs
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Building a community of practice of TSOs sharing good practice through a Wiki and promoting networking events in Marr to build confidence in the project and shared ownership
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Developing a downloadable on-line manual on building resilience for TSOs with boxed case studies of good practice example.
Read the following background papers:-
Background Paper 1 - The Third Sector in Marr Area
Background Paper 2 - Revenue Generation
Background Paper 3 - The Scottish Policy Environment and the Third Sector