Central Partnership Event September 2025

Central Partnership Event

18th September 2025

What we did

• Organised a subgroup of LLCP, GHIN and FHIN members to organise a community organisations event from a need identified in the mapping.
• Everyone involved worked together in planning the event and agreed to have in the morning speed dating of local partnership examples and an afternoon of world café style discussions on the following themes – Community capacity building, employability, health and wellbeing, volunteering, joining the dots and barriers to partnership work.

What happened

• 48 partners attended the event.
• CLD and NHS co-hosted the event.
• The community kitchen supplied teas, coffees and cake.
• Coop supplied fruit and biscuits.
• SHMU provided a film evaluation of the event.
• 6 partners delivered presentations on examples of good partnership working.
• 6 partners facilitated the world café style afternoon themes.

Outcomes

• 100% of attendees made an action point to complete in their community after the event.
• Plan to organise an event for community groups.
• Attendees felt inspired and excited for further partnership working.
• More organisations joined the LLCP’s.

What next

• Organise a yearly partnership event delivered by different partners / area every time.
• Plan to organise an event for community groups to showcase what they do.
• Review what the attendees did after the event with their action points at future LLCP, GHIN and FHIN meetings.
• Create subgroups within the LLCP to cater for specific themes. There was a need identified for a working group for volunteering and employability.