As part of delivering our Horizon Plan, we have committed to establishing and facilitating a number of community forums, to help us deliver the following strategic outcomes:
- Encouraging connectivity and understanding between communities to reduce barriers to mutual engagement
- Increasing community and citizen participation
The purpose of the forums is to encourage two-way engagement between the Trust and diverse groups for ‘deep value’ relationships, and to enable greater interconnectivity between group and communities. This in turn will build trust across the network which will enable greater inclusion, influence, information sharing and therefore better decision making for community benefit.
There following groups and forums are currently active:
- Archive forum
- Artists forum/network
- Environment Group
- Learning/Learners forum / Supplementary Schools Co-ordinators Group
- Loose network of groups to serve the Moroccan community
- Refugee and Migrant forum
- Social Entrepreneurs forum
- Social Impact forum (to be established)
For more information, or if you’re interested in joining one of our forums, please get in touch with Gigi Yacoub, our Head of Community Engagement and Grants.