Music Education: Management and Innovation Conference

The benefits and challenges of formal collaboration

a grass roots view….

“Good collaboration amplifies strength but poorcollaboration is better than no collaboration at all” Martin Hansen

“Assumptions are the termites of relationships”Henry Winkler

Case studyThe Plymouth WIRED Consortium

“Necessity is the mother of invention…”

Challenges….

“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.” Frank A. Clark

“Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent Abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict” Saul Alinsky

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak.Courage is also what it takes to sit down and

Listen” Winston Churchill

“Seek first to understand, then to be understood. This is principle is the key to effectiveInterpersonal communication” Stephen Covey

3 levels of Partnership Margaret Griffiths

Music Hubs as ‘scaffolding’? and or ‘joint serviceprovision’?

CooperationCollaborationConfederation

Potential Models for Music Hubs • Consortium model with lead agency• Large to small • Collaboration leads to birth of new company

and becomes incorporated in some way• Fully integrated merger or partial merger

Consortium Model

BASSAC 2011

Potential Models for Music Hubs • Consortium model with lead agency• Large to small • Collaboration leads to birth of new company

and becomes incorporated in some way• Fully integrated merger or partial merger

Blue Print for Success?

• Motivation

• Youth Voice

• Focus

• Facilitator

• Trust and confidence

• Negotiation and highly tuned communication skills

• Willingness to take risks

• Conflict

• Clarity - what you want and what you’re prepared to give up

• Clear framework

• Able to commit the time and resources

Questions and reflections….

Further information / useful Links

http://www.missionmodelsmoney.org.uk/

http://www.bassac.org.uk/our-programmes/collaboration/

http://www.name.org.uk/publications/item/music-and-power-partnerships

Ben BallardCreative Consultant and facilitator

Email: [email protected] Telephone: 07973 157136

Further information / useful Links

http://www.missionmodelsmoney.org.uk/

http://www.bassac.org.uk/our-programmes/collaboration/

http://www.name.org.uk/publications/item/music-and-power-partnerships

Ben BallardCreative Consultant and facilitator

Email: [email protected] Telephone: 07973 157136

Questions?• How do we maintain and develop the existing

infrastructure of music provision in the face of cuts and funding limited to a year on year basis?

• Music Hubs - what lessons can be learnt from 3rd sector commissioning processes and or from business partnership models in the private sector?

• How do we move on from the formal / non-formal divide and get organisations to work together who may have differences in culture and ethos?

7 W’s • 1. What is it? (Mission and Values) • 2. What will it do (aims and objectives) • 3. Whose it for (key markets) • 4. Why do you think they want it / why is it needed (market research) • 5. Who will do it (staffing and or governance) • 6. What will it cost (income and expenditure)

• 7. When will it happen (timescale)

Recommendation 14 Recommendation 14: Schools, Local Authority Music Services, Arts CouncilEngland client organisations and other recognised delivery organisations shouldwork together to create Music Education Hubs in each Local Authority area. TheseHubs should receive ring-fenced central government funding to deliver MusicEducation in each area following an open, advertised bidding process. It isanticipated that there would be a lead organisation (which is likely to be a LocalAuthority Music Service in almost all cases, but in some cases could also be anArts Council England client organisation or other recognised deliveryorganisation). This lead organisation would be directly funded to undertake theleading role in each Hub. The Department for Education should ensure that publicfunds are invested to provide the highest quality Music Education for children andyoung people efficiently and with the greatest accountability for the money spent.

MoU• Aims of the Memorandum of Understanding• Terms• Partners • Partnership Working

– Roles and Responsibilities

• Representation and Quorum• Schedule of Activities – work plan• Risk Management• Indicators of Success • Decision making and arbitration• Copyright • External links• Amendments • Withdrawal/termination