Phil Arnold

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Phil Arnold

• Partner engagement

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Why get involved?

• Know why you are doing this
• Vision
• Ethics and values
• Mutual gain and advancement

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What to partners bring to the table?

• Often not cash!
• Insights and different relationships
• Similar problems
• New directions

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How can it work?

• Its personal
• Its unique
• Its long term
• Its strategic
• Its different

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What next for us in the co-operative model?

• Deliver an alternative to models based on
  competitive individualism
• Embedding co-operative values and practices -
  democracy, community ownership and shared values
  for 21st century education
• Address the social, political, economic and
  cultural challenges of a rapidly changing world
  through new learning.
• Embedding and sustaining innovation and
  creativity
• Addressing current capacity and sustainability
  issues
• Enhancing solidarity in and between sectors
  (health, crime, education, sport, etc) to make a
  real difference ( through self help and self
  responsibility) to communities.

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Post structural organisations

• Communities of collective responsibility
• Thinking of collaborative risk
• Autonomy developing, leading
• Thematic approach
• Community inclusively
• Global data view
• Language of partnership

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Case Study developments

• 4.8m myplace bid for youth co-operative
• Environment centre community co-op
• Enterprise pods Broardstone Mill
• Childrens centre intergen learning suites

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Values

• Self Help
• Self responsibility
• Democracy
• Equity
• Equality
• Solidarity

• Ethics
• Honesty
• Openness
• Social responsibility
• Caring for others