The Community Council of Shropshire is a strong, established organisation with a proven track record of being able to work with local communities, identify needs, develop and support voluntary action.
The three key concepts that epitomise CCS, and help us achieve out vision of supporting people, achieving change in Shropshire, are:
- Partnership
- Reliability
- Innovation
CCS has a specific role to play in supporting people and achieving change in Shropshire. Our business plan sets out five key goals to build on past successes and guide future developments:
1. Influencing policy makers
- Enabling local people to influence policy-making at regional and county level.
- Monitoring the impact of new policies.
- Contributing to the development of regional and sub-regional structure to ensure that the local voluntary and community sectors are involved in the wider regional agenda.
2. Strengthening the voluntary and community sector
- Advising organisations on management structures and funding.
- Offering training and consultancy programmes to build organisational capacity.
- Encouraging networks and communication to share ideas, opportunities and information.
3. Supporting and developing new countywide initiatives
- Delivering a programme of initiatives to meet the needs of rural and hard to reach areas.
- Identifying unmet, new and emerging needs.
- Working with local communities and partners to manage those needs.
4. Consolidating our services
- Managing a community regeneration programme.
- Supporting community transport initiatives.
5. Building a strong and sustainable organisation
- Demonstrating best practice in employment, internal organisation and funding.
- Building a broad and diverse funding base for the organisation.
- Achieving ACRE Quality Standard Level 3. For more information visit
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Our Mission
'Our purpose is to maintain and improve the quality of life in Shropshire, particularly its rural communities. We encourage, facilitate and enable voluntary effort and activity and work for productive partnerships between the statutory, voluntary and private sectors.'
Our Statement of Values
- We will develop, pursue and sustain initiatives that offer equality of opportunity, focus on redressing discrimination, inequality, social exclusion and poverty, and tackle disadvantage.
- We will work in ways that promote partnership and collaboration between groups and organisations, and which enable and empower communities to meet their own needs through community development.
- We will be open, transparent and accountable to our users and members as well as our funders.
- We will value our staff and volunteers and, through investment in training and development, will maximise the potential involvement of all who contribute to the work of CCS.
We will strive to achieve the highest possible professional standards in everything we do, and to seek continuous improvement in our performance and services.
This page was last updated on: 12th April 2006
