- Low quality public space, housing estates, shopping centres and industrial estates in some neighbourhoods
- Creating safer communities so people feel safe in their homes, within their neighbourhoods and on public transport
- The impact of limited access to transport and places of education and work
- Assisting community groups in dealing with challenges they face as organisations
We believe that everybody wants to live in a vibrant community that provides good opportunities for social and recreational activities, education, employment and services. We also believe that local people, groups and organisations have a role to play in creating this.
Our Local Development programme builds the capacity of local groups, individuals, ourselves and others to work together on issues that are of concern in our communities.
We want to encourage people and groups to contribute their ideas and skills to address the complicated issues they face in their communities.
Our local development work supports the neighbourhoods that we know are most affected by unemployment, that do not have the services they need or that suffer from social isolation.