Executive Officer's Current Projects

Bankstown Area Neighbourhood Centre (BANC) Network

The Executive Officer of BCRG Inc. has been the facilitator of the Bankstown Area Neighbourhood Centre Network for the past six years. The BANC Network is made up of local community organisations located throughout the Bankstown LGA. Members include BCRG, Chester Hill Neighbourhood Centre, Coolaburoo Neighbourhood Centre, Creating Links and Woodville Community Services. The central aim of BANC Network is to initiate grass roots community development in Bankstown, to act as a communication channel between services located across the entire LGA, breakdown both geographic and professional isolation, debrief, share information and peer support.

BANC Consortium – CB Partnerships

In light of recent funding reform introduced across both federal and state government departments and the competitive nature of open tender processes, BANC Network members became increasingly interested in the process of establishing formal partnership arrangements.

In 2006, the BANC Network was successful in receiving Bankstown City Council funding to work with a planning facilitator to develop a framework for establishing a formal collaborative consortium model - the BANC Consortium Framework Planning Project.

This project is an example of true service collaboration involving Bankstown City Council, BCRG, Coolaburoo Neighbourhood Centre, Creating Links, Greenacre Area Neighbourhood Centre and Woodville Community Services.

The BANC Consortium group – known as CB Partnerships have been developing structures for the management of a formal consortium.

Some of these management structures have included:

  • Memorandum of understanding
  • Decision making, delegation and accountability
  • Roles and responsibilities
  • Terms of reference

CB Partnerships hope that the process in developing this “best practice model’, will be documented in a format that can be used by other community organisations.

 

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