Growing Compassionate Communities Strategy 2020 - Growing Hope In Our Communities

2nd September 2020

This document emerges directly from those partnerships and collaborations when we all came together on the 7th March 2020 in Corfe Mullen.
Delegates were invited to reflect on their communities and organisations in terms of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. This was a ground-breaking event in many ways but principally it brought together groups from across the county in one place and through consensus arrive at a place to move forward as a whole.

This strategic document seeks to bring together all those conversation’s in such a way as to begin to grow a vision that facilitates the growing of hope in our communities.

We have embarked on a significant journey that may well change the landscape of our communities forever in a way of promoting inclusiveness and growing hope in the communities in which we seek to serve.

A significant outcome of the conference was the formal launch of a strategy to engage with groups and peoples was a hidden disability scheme consisting of a green wrist band to be worn by community helpers and a green ribbon to be worn by people to communicate that they may have hidden disabilities. We plan to roll this important scheme out across all communities.

Moreover, this document provides a roadmap for this journey, one that is committed to growing hope in our communities. It provides an evidence base to build on and shape our communities for future generations.

This document takes a grassroots approach to understanding emerging themes and issues as well unmet needs in our communities. The conversations took place within the Growing Compassionate Communities inaugural conference, Growing hope in our Communities on the 7th March 2020.

The conference provided a window into local communities whilst providing the opportunity to:

• Take stock of our communities’ journey and achievement’s
• Sharing each other’s vison for our communities
• Provide space to share and pool practice and experience
• Provide an opportunity to network
• Explore and agree next steps

These were the primary focus conference. The various chapters of this document pick up these themes then seeks to translate them into a 5-year action plan.

Download the document here