Become a Community Partner

If you work for, or are connected to, an organisation that is working in the community and you feel that there may be some benefit in working with the Practice, here are some of the key points that we are looking for when we consider a community partnership.

Community Partners are organisations who:

1. Support and/or promote community engagement and have existing connections into the local communities where our practices are based or operating, especially connections with groups that have health needs, or are disadvantaged, excluded or marginalised or ‘hard to reach’ groups.
2. Have a healthy living focus a desire or interest in promoting healthy living amongst the individuals and groups that it works with, including improving exercise, eating habits, healthy lifestyles, health promotion etc. and that this could be described as an interest in ‘whole person health’.
3. Provide other support services or activities to improve the ‘whole health’ of people, by tackling issues that contribute to poor health through the provision of other services and activities, such as; support, caring, listening, education and training, debt advice, cooking classes, IT skills, mentoring and coaching, arts and crafts, social activities, youth work, etc.
4. Are committed to long term relationships with a clear interest in building and fostering long-term relationships with the people they support or work with such that their activities are relationally focused and not solely ‘project’ driven.
5. Be one of many where the community partner is aware that they will be one of many organisations that Hope Citadel will partner with for the purposes of reaching into the communities where its practices are based or operating.

If you think that your organisation fits the bill and that there is scope for partnership working, then please get in touch.  We’d love to hear from you.