Shared Ventures Ltd™ is a subsidiary company of Collins Corporate Solutions Ltd. Registered in England No: 09629981.

Registered address: 59 Peters Road, Locks Heath, Hampshire SO31 6EL

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Meet the team

We are a small, talented team of senior executive public sector and commercial enterprise professionals. We’re based in the South East although work nationally.

Sharon Collins (Director)

MBA, CIHCM, MCMI, CTArc

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“Entrepreneurial, locally-minded, with strong interpersonal skills and plenty of commercial savvy!”

Collaborative Transformation
Organisational and Cultural Development
Strategy development and Operational planning
Performance Improvement
Value for Money

£462m efficiency savings have been achieved by 390 councils engaged in 416 shared service arrangements. Talk to us about our collaborative expertise.

Some key points…

Whilst one of the central drivers to share services has always been to reduce costs and make work processes more efficient, the benefits and driving forces have moved away from a pure cost focus to increasingly achieving greater added value.

Regulation – in what ever form it takes – focuses on maximising the return on investment across all assets.

A collaborative approach is attractive within our current operating environment as it offers relatively rapid, low cost and flexible start-up.

Carole Halfacre

(Senior Consultant)

FCIH, FISMM

Resourceful, people focused and approachable, Carole has 25 years’ experience of working at both strategic and operational levels within public and private sector businesses and the voluntary sector.

Carole’s down to earth approach enables her to work effectively across multiple stakeholders to encourage, challenge, engage and drive business transformation. With over 15 years’ consultancy expertise – including a lead advisory role with the Social Housing Regulator - Carole continues to support a wide portfolio of public and commercial clients including social housing, manufacturing, community enterprise and corporate providers drive forward change and business transformation.

Stakeholder communication and community engagement strategies
Organisational and Cultural Development
Strategy development and Operational planning
Performance Improvement
Value for Money

Sharon Collins…

Carole Halfacre…

Kate Bradbury

(Senior Legal Consultant)

LLB Hons

With 25 years’ experience as qualified Commercial solicitor and Partner Kate, was one of the first lawyers locally to take advantage of the opportunity provided from de-regulation of delivering commercial legal services in the UK through legal consultancy.

Kate’s previous role was with Warner Goodman for ten years where she was a Partner and a Senior Lawyer in their Commercial team based in Southampton. With a background in advising Joint Venture arrangements and Social Enterprise Projects, Kate’s expertise ranges from franchising, terms and conditions of business, supplier and customer agreements, partnership, LLP and shareholder agreements, JVs/SPVs and advising on wide range of company law and corporate restructuring across a wide range of businesses.

Kate’s practice is based on the values of providing highly responsive, dedicated, ‘jargon free’ legal advice to clients looking to grow or start up a new business/ventures.

Practical ‘jargon free’ legal advice
Trusted Commercial adviser
Navigating Clients through complex commercial and legal scenarios

Kate Bradbury…

Sharon Collins MBA, CIHCM, MCMI, CTArc
Tel: 01489 557 800 | Mob: 07740 482 976 | Email us

The social housing sector seems so focused on our ‘guilty pleasure’ of remaining autonomous businesses that we have lost sight of the need to fundamentally rethink operating models and traditional service and sector boundaries if we are to free up capacity, drive efficiencies and protect vulnerable frontline services.

Derek Bradbury

(Organisational Development Specialist)

FCIPD

With 25 years’ experience as an HR professional and Executive at board level for leading companies such as Arqiva, NTL, Procter and Gamble and Tambrands, Derek has enabled transformation within many private and public sector organisations successfully implementing major change and restructuring programs that have a major impact on employees.

Derek is a Fellow of the CIPD and a trained Executive Coach and combines these skills with a deep understanding of the commercial challenges many organisations face.

Derek Bradbury…

Future advantage will go to organisations which can stimulate and support business-to-business collaboration as a lever to both secure and maximise return across all assets of the business.

We need to rethink how we can work in collaboration, at a regional level, to deliver more with less resource.

Sharing ‘directly necessary’ services, means we can share risk, share investment, share efficiencies, share surpluses and ultimately boost capacity.

How can Boards justify, in the short to medium term, strategic options which don’t at least explore whether collaborative advantage would provide a step change in capacity and capability?

Our team of associates is led by owner and Director, Sharon Collins.

Sharon is a nationally respected and accomplished housing professional with over 25 years’ experience of the social housing and care sector – over 17 of which at senior executive level leading internal and external business consultancy services.

Sharon has an extensive track record in facilitating and implementing large scale change and improvement programmes and is skilled at enabling proactive stakeholder engagement. Sharon is also the Director of Collins Corporate Solutions Ltd - our parent company, a leading edge social housing consultancy which is passionate about transforming public services.

We are incredibly proud of our national partnerships with HouseMark, the sector’s leading performance improvement specialists and the Tenant Participation Advisory Service - TPAS. We provide them with a portfolio of services including Value For Money product design and development, facilitation and delivery of bespoke consultancy projects, Board support, a raft of performance improvement tools and regulatory reassurance products focusing upon Economic Regulation and Consumer Standards.

Sharon also Chairs HouseMark’s national Welfare Reform Improvement Club and a national Tenancy Sustainability Club which collectively provides practical help, advice and support for over 120 social landlords managing the impact of reform and austerity on the ground.

Sharon is the only formally qualified and registered Collaborative Transformation Architect within the social housing sector, and brings additional added value and insight through her out-of-sector expertise as a Board Governor at Solent NHS Trust.

Patrick Fowler…

Patrick is a high performing, adaptable and creative specialist with over 20 years third sector experience (10 years at a senior level) - working with the most vulnerable groups in society - attuned to placing the client at the centre of service delivery under principles of fairness and equality of opportunity.

Patrick’s specialism is working in partnership with individuals, providers and commissioners to co-produce services that respond to changing needs, Government policy and funding constraints, leading and developing services in a variety of areas including older persons, homelessness, mental health, substance misuse, disability, dementia, refugees and asylum seekers.

Patrick has an extensive track record of leading significant change programmes with staff teams and clients, including the expansion and contraction of service portfolios.

Development of multi-agency co-located and community-based housing, care and support partnerships
In-house contract delivery, leading & managing teams to deliver continual improvement
Client consultation, involvement and capacity building
Meeting key stakeholders’ aims and objectives
Project & change management
Group and workshop facilitation

Patrick Fowler

BA (HONS) CIHCM