Thriving Communities – Oldham Council

• Lead Member Oldham Council
• Categories Community Wealth Building

The Thriving Communities (TC) programme is the bedrock of the Oldham Cares programme and central to the Oldham Model contained in the Oldham Plan.  It focuses on creating the conditions for sustainable prevention, social action and change which are pre-requisites of achieving the overarching outcomes of the wider programme.  It will do this through developing and implementing a systematic approach to maintaining, building and growing community capacity across the borough through effective collaboration and ways of working with communities and the Voluntary, Community, Social, Faith and Enterprise (VCSFE) sector.

The overarching vision is for people and communities to have the power to be healthy, happy, able to make positive choices and both offer and access insightful and responsive support when needed

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