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Skills & Projects Ltd
12 St Mary Road
Walthamstow
London E17 9RG
0845 539 1963
Registered in England
Company No: 3503391
© Skills & Projects 2010
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Skills & Projects Benchmarking Clubs
Benchmarking club members agree which measures and performance indicators it would be useful to compare, and use the web-application to record details of their own performance and produce comparative reports.
Meetings take place quarterly and tend to concentrate on one or two issues, with members taking responsibility for preparing and leading a discussion where they have particular knowledge and experience, or perhaps where their performance appears to be much better than the rest of the group.
Benchmarking clubs are an opportunity to meet up with colleagues from similar organisations facing similar challenges, to network, share ideas and to learn from each other.
Clubs are encouraged to organise and service their own meetings, with flexible additional support from Skills & Projects. Members like this approach as they see that they are not paying for something they can do for themselves and they have some choice in how they use the support we offer.
Below is a list of the clubs we currently support.
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National club that includes all subscribers to Skills & Projects benchmarking
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The first ever group of small associations in the UK to set up a benchmarking club in 1998. They decided in 2009 to join SPBM to provide a reliable platform for collecting and reporting on their performance data, as well as a wider peer group with which to compare.
Solomon have different subgroups for Chief Execs, Housing Management, Support and Finance. They run a staff conference and have notched up a formidable list of achievements through partnership and collaboration.
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This club was set up by Skills & Projects with a group of chief execs from the London based g320 group in 1995.
Members had some experience of informal benchmarking groups, but these had fewquently run into problems, often due to over-relliance on one person, or difficulties in the agreement of PI definitions.
Skills & Projects provided clear definitions and a simple web-based tool (designed with significant input from the users).
Initially PIs were based heavily on Housing Corporation PIs, but evolved over time, and the club has since covered a wide area of performance and good practice.
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SWBM is a club for associations based in the South West of England, many of whom knew each other beforehand. They had tried to set up a benchmarking club previously but struggled due to the distance between each other and a lack of PI focus.
The club adopted the SPBM system in 2007, since when they have grown as a dynamic and active group.
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SHAPE was set up in 2005 to promote best practice, compare performance, pool ideas, offer support and share experience.
We have fourteen members varying in size from 80 to 600 housing units. Our members provide a range of services including general needs housing, care services and special needs accommodation.
We meet at least 4 times a year and hold an annual staff conferences
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SoLFed (South London Federation of Small Housing Associations)
The South London Federation of Small Housing Associations (SoLFed) is an alliance of five small housing associations operating in south east London. It was formally constituted as an Industrial and Provident Society in 1995
The alliance members are:
- Ekaya Housing Association
- Housing for Women
- Lambeth & Southwark Housing Association
- New World HA
- Southwark & London Diocesan HA
The alliance was set up to:
- share skills and good practice
- jointly commission services from contractors, consultants and other specialists
- carry out agency work for each other
- undertake collective housing development
- pool property development skills
The alliance gives the associations more opportunities for:
reducing costs by negotiating cheaper maintenance contracts
improving services to customers by sharing skills
increasing efficiency by sharing good practice
accessing some of the advantages open to larger housing associations through economies of scale.
Member associations draw on a wider range of specialist skills than they could afford individually, but without losing their unique identities or the flexibility that comes from having a small, focused operation.
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Not all SPBM subscribers meet regularly as part of a club.
We encourage our members to get together and compare performance and exchange ideas with other similar organisations, and we will actively help members to set up clubs that enable this to happen. However it is not always possible.
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