Collaborating across Islington

Over the past three years, Help on Your Doorstep has worked with the Bright Lives Alliance and IVAR (as our learning partner) to involve 85 members of our Partner Network in a shared learning journey about what real collaboration can achieve for residents facing the greatest challenges. Special thanks to Dr. Vita Terry and Charlotte Pace from IVAR, and our current and former Bright Lives colleagues Sajda Shah CMgr FCMI, Zack Ahmed and Sophie Neal, whose commitment and insight helped shape this work. We are also grateful to The National Lottery Community Fund for supporting this learning journey.

Through five workshops and ongoing partnership work, we explored how to build a system that is more connected and responsive. We were not looking for a new model but a clearer picture of what more we could achieve by learning together. Partners consistently highlighted the importance of:
·      relational, user-led support
·       warm connections and practical follow-through
·       clear and consistent information pathways
·       reducing duplication and working across networks
·       using collective insight to move residents from crisis to wellbeing

The journey also showed what real collaboration requires: time, trust, shared leadership, and a willingness to “lean into the messiness” of partnership working

This process has strengthened the HOYD Partner Network as a recognised part of Islington’s health, care and community landscape and demonstrated the power of building change from the ground up.

Read the full slide deck here: https://bit.ly/HoydIVAR