Growing hope and power is North East Together’s sixth pop up event.
At this event we will be learning about how Dr Kate Paradine, charity leader and Visiting Fellow at University of Southampton, and Harry Annison, Professor in Criminal Justice at University of Southampton, explored, with other academics and charities, dynamics relating to the academic and third sectors, particularly the opportunities and challenges of collaborating to achieve positive change.
Their project took as its focus women caught up in the criminal justice system and those experiencing male violence against women and girls.
What particularly caught our eye at North East Together was how Kate and Harry used the Strategy Tree model to conceptualise the potential for a shared cross-sector and cross-organisational language, vision and plan to build the evidence for a future justice system that works for women, girls and everyone affected by it. You can read their beautifully presented paper here.
NET co-founder and co-lead Robert Laycock first came across the Strategy Tree model in 2008 when he was Director at Helix Arts. He has since shared the model with other charities who have found it to be a great way of aligning vision and mission with objectives, strategies and actions – creating a framework for performance management and board reporting.
We love how Kate and Harry have developed and visualised the model, and how they are using it to frame this important collaborative work. So, we are naturally keen to hear more from them, and to share their story and learning with NET members.
Whilst we are still working on the detail, at this NET Pop-up event some of the questions we will be exploring include:
through a collaborative lens - how do we make sure our strategies are aligned and focused on change?
through an evidence lens - how can we make evidence more of a driver of policy and implementation? And what counts as evidence anyway?
In the session Kate and Harry will present their collaborative project Growing hope and power – charities, academics and evidence and we’ll have plenty of time together in smaller groups and as a whole group to share, explore, and make connections to our own work, ideas and experiences.
About North East Together
Our collective mission here at North East Together is to create the conditions, and platform for, collaboration to become the norm in the north east and to nurture a healthier social change system. Together we can do this.
We believe that bringing people together to tackle social injustice will create positive change - in our communities, organisations and the social systems we live and work within. Our network offers mutual support, enables collaboration and inspires social leaders. We offer a series of dynamic network events; whole day events, self-organised collaborative working groups; pathways into coaching; and independent social change events. It’s for leaders from the voluntary, charity, social enterprise, education, public and private sectors. It’s for experienced, new and future leaders of organisations, work, and ideas.
North East Together is hosted by Yes We Can and is a collaboration between Yes We Can and Newcastle University Business School.