Southwark Alliance

Promoting Community Cohesion In Southwark

The Southwark Alliance works closely with the community, local voluntary groups, and statutory agencies to promote community cohesion in the borough. We try to:-

Ensure community participation includes those from different cultural backgrounds, different age groups and those who experience different levels of deprivation and exclusion.
Develop a better understanding of the factors in each neighbourhood which act as barriers to people accessing opportunities , and find solutions to those barriers in partnership with local people.
Identify the opportunities and challenges to create cohesive communities within and between neighbourhoods , and work with local people to improve understanding and celebrate diversity.

As well as supporting a number of community engagement and active citizenship activities, the Southwark Alliance has supported the production of a number of publications which give ideas and thoughts about promoting community cohesion in the borough. These include:

Mark of Faith (pdf)
A Sense of belonging (pdf)
How to build community cohesion in Southwark (pdf)
A State of Mind (pdf)

There is also a DVD which gives an overview of some of the work that has been done. For a copy of this, or copies of the publications, or for further please contact Southwark Council's community cohesion co-ordinator on 020-7525 0796.