Do more

Where are we now?

How do we maintain momentum and sustain our outcomes? What new research do we need to conduct? What might help us further our scope and embed our partnership’s work?

At this stage a local partnership will be aiming to keep momentum going, seeking new opportunities and resources to continue its work and do more. You may wish to revisit the vision and go back to your theory of change. You may also conduct further research and develop greater intelligence. Now is the time to look at how the partnership operates and to look outwards to discover new opportunities.

Ingredients and recipes

There are many ingredients from the Powerful Partnerships set that feel relevant to the Do more stage; we have selected some key ones here. The resources that map against these ingredients are designed to help you revisit your partnership values and methods, broaden your stakeholders, seek out other assets and resources and further increase your programme’s impact.

This is the time to revisit the tools across the other stages in our Powerful Partnerships Resource Library. You might also like to review the cultural ecology approach outlined in our principle piece of research Caring for Cultural Freedom to consider a different way of collaborating.

• Secure and share resources and opportunities: We have limited tools in the areas of funding sources and bids as individual cases differ greatly. However, in the Develop stage we have tools to support asset and resource mapping and broadening your stakeholders which you might find beneficial at this stage
• Create a clear shared identity: You may like to revisit and articulate the roles and responsibilities in your partnership. In Discover and Build we included an overview of some emerging models of governance across London’s Cultural Education Partnerships to date. You may also want to consider ways you can increase your impact by connecting with other relevant initiatives. In Deliver you will find information on Arts Award and in our Further Reading you can find more information on this and Artsmark.
• Address local and user need: In Discover and Build we included 10 co-development questions and a collection of case study examples of high quality shared impact projects across different sectors and businesses for further inspiration. We recommend you also revisit your theory of change and update as you build your evidence base. Our Further Reading contains relevant literature to support this stage.

See the full set of 13 Powerful Partnerships ingredients