Working Together SEO Example Statement (250 Words)

SLast winter, referrals to our council's welfare team jumped by a third, but food parcels depended on a food bank, a housing association and a supermarket, none of whom worked together.

TI proposed and led a multi-agency packing day to clear the waiting list and build a joined-up way of working.

AI invited the three organisations to a planning meeting at the food bank and opened by asking each to name one thing stopping them working together. The food bank feared losing control of donations; the housing association worried about data sharing; the supermarket wanted predictable collection times. I addressed each concern directly: I drafted a simple data-sharing agreement with our information governance team, mapped collection slots around the supermarket's delivery schedule, and agreed the food bank would keep final say on parcel contents. When two agencies disputed who should lead, I reframed the day around the families we were serving and suggested I coordinate since the council held the referral list. I recruited 40 volunteers from all four organisations, paired people from different agencies on each packing line and briefed everyone together on the morning. During the day I tracked the referral list on a whiteboard so every agency could see progress and I redeployed volunteers to the slowest lines.

RWe packed 520 parcels in one day and cleared the waiting list, cutting the average wait from six days to two. The four organisations now meet monthly, and the packing day ran twice more with the same agreement.