Common use of Shared Aims Clause in Contracts

Shared Aims.  Place the needs of the community first in considering impact of changes to programmes.  Understand on both sides that reduced budgets affect everyone; work together to weave resource to most effectively arrive at outcomes.  Be transparent about acknowledging success and failure in design and delivery of programmes.  Agree not to speak badly of one another in public and be clear on what type of campaigning is acceptable.  Develop and engage in programmes that support partnership working between the sectors and develop increased awareness of the roles, responsibilities and constraints that each of the sectors operate within. The Compact is an agreement between the statutory sector and the voluntary and community sector (VCS). The agreement aims to ensure that the statutory sector and the VCS work effectively in partnership to achieve common goals and outcomes for the benefit of communities.