Quality Standards for Multi-Purpose Community Organisations

Community Matters believes that it is vital for the community association network and other similar multi-purpose community centre/organisations to achieve high standards around their work to help ensure the future sustainability of community based services.

The VISIBLE Communities™ framework identifies the role of community associations (and similar) as:

            A Voice to represent issues of local concern
          An Independent and politically neutral organisation
            A Service provider for local people
          An Initiator of projects to meet locally identified need
            A Builder of partnerships with other local organisations and groups
 A strong Local network of people and organisations
A way to Engage local people to become active in their communities

If you would like to find out more about VISIBLE CommunitiesTM please see www.visiblecommunities.org.uk.