Regeneration: shaping communities

Long-term, successful partnerships demand great relationships. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the local authority sector, where the ‘bundling’ of business and technical services to form large-scale outsourcing partnerships with the private sector has become increasingly common.

The Impact Partnership is a fifteen-year joint venture between Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council and Mouchel. We provide highways, property management, ICT, payroll, and revenues and benefits services, and we manage a new customer contact centre.

Focus is on physical regeneration and job creation in an area affected primarily by changes in demographic profile and the loss of its traditional manufacturing base.

Recently completed work on the restoration of Broadfield Park demonstrates the benefits that Impact Partnership is bringing to the community, with practical and aesthetic improvements encouraging local families to use the facility.

"Physical, social and economic regeneration is a priority for the Council,” explains Roger Ellis, Chief Executive of Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council.

“Together with our partners we aim to effect change that will regenerate, revitalise and rejuvenate the borough for the benefit of all of our citizens for years to come.”

"I am confident that by continuing to work together with the Impact Partnership we will deliver sustainable change that makes a long lasting positive impact and, most importantly, delivers a higher quality of life for the people who live here."