Community Group: How to Unite Your Community

Discover everything you need to build stronger connections in your neighbourhood with our expert advice and inspiring ideas. From forming new community groups to enhancing safety through Neighbourhood Watch schemes, you'll find practical guidance, real success stories, and trusted support every step of the way. Community Group is here to help.

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Using a 'Phone Tree' for Community Action

The phone tree is an American idea that’s yet to catch on here but it’s an ideal way to quickly inform people about meetings, urgent community issues and...

Dealing With Community Friction

Whenever there are a number of people living in proximity, there are bound to be tensions. Often these are minor, personal affairs between neighbours and fam...

Play Areas for Kids

Green spaces and parks are vital to a community. They offer freedom to walk and play that just can’t be found at home. For those who live in flats they can...

Preparing for a Community Emergency

Emergencies and disasters can happen everywhere. When they do, people rally round, but the responses are largely individual, without any co-ordination or pla...

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Ways to Unite Your Community

According to National Statistics almost 50% of people feel that their neighbours “go their own way” in terms of community spirit. However the good news i...

Making Your Community More Eco-friendly: A Case Study

Carly James is mum to three boys and takes the environment seriously “It’s their future I’m thinking about. We have to act now to protect the world for...

Involving Local Shops and Traders in Your Community

A key amenity in most successful communities is local shops and services such as post offices and pubs. Not only do they create local employment they serve e...

How to Set Up a Community Newspaper

Community newspapers are independent, locally run newspapers which rely on citizen journalists to highlight issues and stories of local interest. They are of...

Getting Involved in Local Health Issues

Health is wealth they say and certainly the provision of adequate health services can benefit your local area. There are plenty of ways in which you can get...

Setting Up a Residents Group: A Case Study

Julie Garland’s village has become a friendlier place since she and her family moved there five years ago. “Neighbours help each other out and our childr...

How Neighbourhood Watch Improved My Community: A Case Study

Bill Gillies, a warehouseman, has lived in his central city home in Edinburgh for over twenty years. In that time he saw vandalism become an increasing probl...

Having a Community Housing Association

Housing associations have wonderful benefits for people on low incomes. They’re social housing, of the type that used to be run by local and national gover...

What Are Eco Communities?

Are eco communities the wave of the future? The government believes so, at least to an extent, putting its weight behind some eco towns, seeing them not only...

Community and Learning Partnerships

The people in communities need education, and ensuring that they’re able to obtain it is the aim behind Community Learning Partnerships, a government initi...

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