Our Aims and Objectives
Our vision is to create a vibrant and connected community in Stratford-upon-Avon.
We will achieve this by maximising our assets and working in partnership to enhance the quality of life for the people of Stratford upon Avon.
The difference we make:
Through our grantmaking, we commit to being
- A participatory grant maker – genuinely working with the broader community and bringing them into our decision making and leadership work.
- An empowering organisation – building skills, capacity, and raising aspirations across our community
- A grant maker with a human approach that is centred on the aspirations and hopes of the community and assets present (sometimes unrealised!) across our community
- A grant maker that understands its reach and data to make better decisions around:
- Who and what is funded
- Geographic hot and cold spots with a bespoke approach in engagement
- Themes and trend analysis to understand how our funding is evolving
- An organisation that champions and celebrates diversity. We will commit to inclusive funding practise in how and what we fund.
Through Community Engagement and relationship building we commit to:
- Championing our Community Hub in person and digitally.
- Creating meaningful and sustained relationships with our beneficiaries
- Maintain direct engagement with our members
- Provide a positive experience for Guild Chapel visitors and volunteers.
- Enabling widest possible access to our green spaces, Church Lane Allotments, Rowley Fields and The Lench Meadows
- Being a thoughtful and considerate landlord for our commercial tenants.
Through our commitment to Placemaking we will:
- Be an advocate by actively promoting place making to other delivery partners in sharing examples and demonstrating the wider benefits to the community and the town
- Work with partners and the community to deliver and sustain place making initiatives to targeted neighbourhoods within Stratford-upon-Avon
- Prioritise work in our green spaces, Rowley Fields, Church Lane Allotments and The Lench Meadows to promote people's health, happiness, and well-being
- Enable place making through our discretionary grant making by allocating a percentage of funding each year to localised/neighbourhood centred grass roots initiatives
- Work with others including Stratford District Council, Stratford-upon-Avon Town Council, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Royal Shakespeare Company and Stratforward to curate a town centre offer that is sustainable, relevant and unique
