Members and other stakeholders are invited to help us shape our strategic objectives for the next few years by completing the short questionnaire below. Once this is complete, please email it back to us at info@communitymatters.org.uk with the heading 'Strategy Questionnaire'.
We are particularly interested in your views on whether we should be doing more to promote some of the values and principles that underpin our movement which we believe are at the heart of what is meant by civil society. Such values include:
Association and independence: The freedom for people to associate and to form groups and associations to further community interests and to follow their own agenda without undue influence
Participation and collective action: Taking part, making a contribution and being active in their communities, recognising the power and value of the community acting together
Mutuality and self help: Volunteering within their community for mutual benefit, being both volunteer and beneficiary and helping each other with limited involvement from ‘professionals’
Sense of place: A strong sense of community and identification with their neighbourhood
Democracy in action: Working democratically together, accountable to each other with fairness, transparency and equitability
