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There are many different interpretations of the word "Consortium". For the purposes of this website, a Consortium could be described as a group of organisations who come together to fulfil a combined objective or project that usefully requires co-operation and the sharing of resources. They sometimes develop out of existing working partnerships, but need to have a clear mutual goal in order to ensure their success. The aim should be to deliver “more than the sum of the individual parts”

Consortia vary in how they are staffed, the roles they fulfil and how they are structured. Not all call themselves Consortia; some choose “Network”, or Partnership as a preferred description. However, they are sufficiently similar for us to be able to extract information, which could be useful to others, wishing to go down the route of developing a voluntary and community sector learning Consortium.

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