Organisation Vision In Community Development

• Community development is about building active and sustainable communities based on inclusion, social justice and mutual respect. It is about changing power structures to remove the barriers that prevent people from participating in the issues that affect their lives.
• The key purpose of community development is to bring about social change by working with communities. Community development is about how people relate to the groups and institutions that shape their lives, and how they can help bring about change by being actively involved in the issues that affect them.
• Community development is undertaken within communities of an area, identity and common interest. This includes communities based on a shared culture, heritage or faith, users of public and other services, those with common interests arising from their work, and people working together to promote the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.
• Community development plays an important role in achieving equal opportunities, accessibility, participation in democratic processes and sustainable economic, social and environmental change is recognised. These themes are important across government and within the community and voluntary sectors. Organisations in all sectors can provide crucial support to community development, for example by adopting this framework and working towards applying it in the work of their organisation.