Developing skills
Our aims are:
- To develop the capacity and skills of the residents and community/voluntary groups of socially and economically disadvantaged communities within Oldham, and in particular those within Hathershaw & Fitton Hill, in such a way that they are better able to identify, and help meet, their needs and to participate more fully in society.
- To increase the skills, competencies and self confidence of members of such communities.
- To promote the more effective, efficient and sustainable delivery of services to such communities.To promote social cohesion.
- To provide opportunities for people to learn through experience - opportunities that would not otherwise be available to them.
- To involve people in collective effort so that they gain confidence in their own abilities and their ability to influence decisions that affect them.
- To realise their existing skills and develop their potential.
- To promote their ability to take responsibility for identifying and meeting their own, and other people’s, needs. To encourage people to become involved in their community and wider society in a fuller way, supporting a variety of methods of communication and networking between groups.