Table 2.

Community partner continuum

Typology	Number	Community partner description	Category
Comfortable contractors	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8	Statutory service provider Statutory service provider Collection of GP practices Statutory service provider Health centre Community interest company Research centre Housing association	Fully Professionalised Organisations
Compliant contractors	9 10 11 12 13 14 15	International charity—local branch Group of charitable social enterprises Group of charitable projects Charity—city-based National charity—local branch National charity—local branch Charity—city-based	Aspirational Community, Voluntary Social Enterprise
Cautious contractors	16 17 18 19 20	Charity—city-based Charity (formed from merger) Charity (formally faith-based organisation) Community association Community centre
Community-based non-contractors	21 22	Place of worship—church Place of worship—mosque	Non-professionalised Community-Based Groups