Community Involvement

Communities Together – a strategy for Thurrock

"We want Thurrock to be at the dynamic heart of the Thames Gateway, a place of ambition, enterprise and opportunity, where communities and businesses flourish and the quality of life for local people is continually improving.".

This strategy focuses one of the five priorities identified to achieve this vision: to build pride, respect and responsibility in Thurrock's communities and its residents.

Communities Together - a strategy for Thurrock
www.thurrock.gov.uk/community/content.php?page=together

Welcome to the web page of the Community Involvement Board (CIB). The CIB is a partnership board made up of representatives from community and voluntary groups and aims to represent community views whilst influencing Thurrock's strategic agenda. The Local Strategic Partnership (LSP), 'Shaping Thurrock', sets the strategic agenda in Thurrock.

What are our aims?

To ensure that local communities and local people are given more say in the decisions that affect them
To shape the consultation, participation and engagement processes with local people/communities across the LSP and to monitor/assess their impact
To play a key role in ensuring that the community has been appropriately involved in developing the priorities and in ensuring that the vision is developed by the partnership

What are we doing to achieve our aims?

We are developing Principles of Engagement. Our Principles will drive the way in which organisations and groups that are part of the LSP engage with people and communities in Thurrock
We are developing an Engagement Strategy and Toolkit. We hope that this will help to improve the way in which people in Thurrock are engaged with
We are starting to develop a Community Empowerment Network. We hope that voluntary and community groups in Thurrock, however small, will be able to be involved in our work and will play their part in influencing the strategic agenda in Thurrock to ensure that it represents community needs
We have representatives from our Board on each of the other four LSP Partnership Boards and the LSP Board itself. This ensures that decisions that are made by those Boards take account of community views. In turn, we are able to communicate those agendas and decisions to the wider community. This is something that the Community Empowerment Network will allow us to do more effectively

How do I find out more?

If you would like to find out more about the work we are doing or how you can be involved, please contact us:

Email: CIB@thurrock.gov.uk
Telephone: 01375 389892 (ask for Andrew Baldwin)
Or visit the Thurrock Community Empowerment website: www.tcen.org.uk