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Guidance on building a local sense of belonging
http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/communities/pdf/1112832.pdf
| Quote: | Foreword
In a fast-moving world, with busy lives and complex challenges,
it is easy to feel isolated and detached. While social networking
sites can connect us with friends all across the world, we may
not know our neighbours well enough to have a cup of tea with
them. We may be cautious, distant, and suspicious of others.
A sense of belonging to your community helps to overcome
that. People who feel that they belong to their local area will
get involved with local schemes and initiatives, will help their
neighbours, will challenge inappropriate behaviour, will welcome
newcomers and help them settle. They will pull together in a
crisis and join together in a celebration. All this helps to build cohesive, empowered and
active communities. And we know that three quarters of people strongly feel they belong
to their area.
I want everyone to share in this positive feeling – to feel included, welcomed and wanting
to give something back. Though of course, this is not something that can be achieved or
built overnight. And it cannot be forced. It needs to be grown and nurtured.
Like other cohesion work, building a sense of belonging needs long term and sustained
action. It also needs to reflect local circumstances and build on the history and geography
of local areas. Different areas will prioritise different issues, For some this might be about
communications, for others it might be a series of local events to build belonging.
Last year we worked with the Citizenship Foundation to publish the Citizens’ Day
Framework. This guidance is the next step and suggests ways in which councils, voluntary
groups and other organisations can encourage a sense of belonging. There are some
excellent examples of good practice – which you may want to consider or adapt to your
own circumstances. I hope that you will find this a useful resource if you want to support
local residents to have a greater sense of belonging to their village, town or city.
Rt Hon Hazel Blears
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Disco_Destroyer
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http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/communities/pdf/1112832.pdf
sounds like another scheme getting the Prols to police themselves to me =D
I'm all for the coming together of community but less of the government structure please  If we're free we don't need guidelines 
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The house i started .living in in 1966 had a garden fence that consisted of 3ft high concrete posts and 2 or 3 strands of wire over which my parents would idly chat away to the neighbours and through which i could clamber to retrieve my football. A few years later that fence became a close boarded fence but still only 3ft high, conversations could still be had and footballs retrieved. A few years later the neighbours put a trellis panel on top of that fence, you could still talk to one another but it felt like being behind bars. A few years after that the whole fence was taken down to be replaced with a 6ft boarded fence. This year the other neighbours took down the other side and added their 6ft fence. PRIVACY!
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We used to talk with our neighbours and now, we just watch Neighbours . . .
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| fish5133 wrote: | | The house i started .living in in 1966 had a garden fence that consisted of 3ft high concrete posts and 2 or 3 strands of wire over which my parents would idly chat away to the neighbours and through which i could clamber to retrieve my football. A few years later that fence became a close boarded fence but still only 3ft high, conversations could still be had and footballs retrieved. A few years later the neighbours put a trellis panel on top of that fence, you could still talk to one another but it felt like being behind bars. A few years after that the whole fence was taken down to be replaced with a 6ft boarded fence. This year the other neighbours took down the other side and added their 6ft fence. PRIVACY! |
I thought BB was if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear or somesuch 
Oh well I guess people want both these days
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BB ?
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Big Brother (society)
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Back on topic though surely Pride of Place in your Country starts at school so if this paper is meaningful why drop History and Geography from the Primaries. Does the right hand know what the left is doing?
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