Care Collaboration launched

A group of Yorkshire businesses are pooling their talents and resources to form a new body, the Yorkshire Care Collaboration.
The members, all successful independent companies in their own right, have experience in providing a broad range of products and services to the care sector.  With an understanding of the specific issues facing companies involved in care provision, each is able to provide specialist advice for care home owners and other private sector providers, together forming an initiative which will help to inform and nurture care businesses to become more efficient and successful.

The Yorkshire Care Collaboration offers industry specific consultancy and hands-on support for all the key aspects of care businesses, including Building & Construction, Health & Safety, Marketing & Communications, Web Design & Corporate Video and Legal & Financial advice.

In the coming months, the collaboration is hosting a programme of interactive seminars with a useful and informative insight into each of the members’ specialist subject areas, as well as providing a resourceful networking environment for meeting fellow care professionals.

The companies at the forefront of the new initiative are already active in networking in Yorkshire and some have informally been working together collaboratively for some time with care clients.

Mark Currie of Catapult Films explains “I was already working for a care client of Manifest Marketing along with Alan Garland, while also working with the Care Professionals Benevolent Fund on several videos to promote that charity.    As fellow members of various business networking groups it soon became apparent that several of my contacts shared a common experience in this particular sector and that together we could provide a seamless service for other care clients.   Often businesses are looking for recommendations before embarking on new business relationships and in formalising our relationships within the Yorkshire Care Collaboration we are able to offer a ‘rubber stamped’ testimonial of each other’s skills.  We continue to operate as separate businesses in dealings with our clients, but there is a much higher level of communication, co-operation and understanding of each other’s working practises which ensures projects can be managed efficiently for the benefit of our clients.   When engaging the services of any one of the YCC membership companies there is no compulsion to use any of the others, but often a distinct advantage in doing so. ”

To find out more about the companies involved in the Yorkshire Care Collaboration, care business owners can visit www.yorkshirecare.net where there are also details of the forthcoming seminar programme, or call 0845 391 7061 to access professional help with any care sector issue.