Community trusts in Northland have told the Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector one of the challenges they face is collaborating with each other.
Alfred Ngaro, Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector, was in Whangarei on Friday visiting community groups like Hospice, Volunteer Northland, Miriam Trust and One Double Five Community House to find out some of the challenges they face.
One of those challenges was individual trusts struggling to collaborate with other trusts.
"It wasn't are there too many. What they were saying was there are lots but do they work well together," Mr Ngaro said.
"The benefit if you can create consortiums, if you collectively come together there is a bargaining power so it means that you can make an approach as a collective to say here's what we know what works best."