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Our Strategy
Shared Vision:Lasting Impact
This is an exciting time for east London. Newham, our home borough, has high levels of deprivation, poverty and unemployment, but also has regeneration on a unprecedented scale – the Olympics, Stratford, Royal Docks and the sixth largest regeneration project in Europe at Canning Town, which together combine into physical development many times the size of Canary Wharf. We want to ensure this unprecedented opportunity benefits the communities we support; but the challenges they face are complex, so we need to tackle more than one problem at a time.
We are therefore focusing our work over the next five years on four strategic aims
- Raising Aspirations – building confidence and life skills, empowering people to explore their dreams, set realistic and achievable goals and fulfil their potential.
- Extending Opportunities – supporting those for whom progression from school to college to employment does not run smoothly, enabling them to get back on track and make a positive contribution to their own lives and to the community
- Tackling Poverty – ensuring families can meet their basic material needs - adequate income, appropriate housing, a safe and stable environment – and build a brighter future.
- Strengthening Communities – helping people to feel safer, building bridges across ages and cultures, and working to build a better society for all
Shared Vision:Lasting Impact is available for download in full, a summary strategy map is also available.
This Strategy sets out our plans for the next five years – what we aim to do, what we are seeking to achieve, and how we will measure our progress towards enabling this very young, exceptionally diverse, vibrant community to make the most of this once in lifetime opportunity.