One of the basic philosophical principles debated and adopted by MODA during its foundation in 1998 was working in partnership with other voluntary sector agencies with similar ideas, aims and approaches.

We established this as a strategic necessity to enhance cooperation and avoid duplication, to enrich processes through diversity of ideas and innovative approaches, to combine resources and consolidate results.
Therefore we have welcomed and will always welcome any invitation for cooperation and any opportunity for coordination.

Despite the fact that working in partnership is naturally a time-consuming process entailing commitment to meetings and contributing to the development of shared aims and approaches and although there is always the risk that a partnership project, despite important joint inputs, might fail, yet MODA has always been ready to utilise any opportunity for working with other groups whether via shared platforms or partnership projects.

Throughout the last five years we worked with many organisations in successful partnership projects, some without any funding backing and aiming at no financial rewards but promoting our vision of making modest contributions to a modern civil society based on diversity of ideas, equality of opportunities and eliminating barriers to democratic inclusion and social justice.

Currently MODA is involved in the following partnership projects:

1. Role of arts and culture in inclusion and integration of refugees and asylum seekers: research project led by Creative Exchange. Partners include MODA, Refugee Council, Arts Council England and Refugee Action.
2. Free IT training for workers and volunteers working with migrants and refugee organisations – with Migrant Resource Centre.
3. IT and website support for migrant and refugee community organisations – a partnership project with Lasa and Advice UK.
4. BME second-tier capacity building co-ordination project PILLAR, with London-wide BME second-tier organisations

We are looking forward to work with small minority ethnic groups to set up partnership projects to enable many groups to benefit from Government’s Futurebuilders funding regime. Unfortunately our own limited human resource capacity restricts our initiatives to establish strategic partnerships. But we hope that with the renewal of our funding from the Community Fund, we will be able to transform our ideas into realistic plans

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