Lewisham Council and partners launch new Community Action Plan
The Lewisham Strategic Partnership (LSP) is made up of representatives of key local organisations including Lewisham Council, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, South East London NHS, Metropolitan Police, London Fire Brigade, Lewisham Local, Goldsmiths University of London, Phoenix Community Housing and more.
Over the last two years the LSP have worked together on a number of projects, and last year carried out the Lewisham 2030 engagement campaign, which asked local people about their hopes and priorities for the future. This work has helped to shape the Community Action Plan, which sets out some key themes and projects the LSP will work on.
To launch the Community Action Plan the LSP, which is chaired by Mayor of Lewisham Brenda Dacres, extended an invitation to other local groups to find out more and see how they could benefit from getting involved in some of the Partnership’s work.
They gathered at Catford’s Broadway Theatre on Tuesday 16 July to learn about the plan; share ideas about how they could work together and sign up to new initiatives to help Lewisham residents.
Brenda Dacres, Mayor of Lewisham and Chair of the Lewisham Strategic Partnership, said:
“Our new Community Action Plan has been shaped by the hours of conversations, hundreds of questionnaires and dozens of focus groups carried out as part of the Lewisham 2030 engagement campaign. It also reflects the work of the Lewisham Strategic Partnership (LSP) over the last two years, and our learning about how we can best work together to improve the services we all provide for the people of Lewisham.
“We’re privileged to have so many fantastic, committed organisations, working across Lewisham, and we hope that this action plan will help us to focus our resources and talents, and enable us to achieve more by working together. It was a pleasure to see so many of them come together to network and find out more about how they can get involved in the Plan.
“It’s definitely a case of ‘the more the merrier’, and I’d encourage any local organisation who thinks they have something to give to get involved. I believe we achieve so much more when we work together and support each other.”
The objectives set out in the plan are:
- Improve the health, wellbeing and housing of residents
- Reduce the impacts of climate change
- Improve the financial resilience and opportunities for Lewisham residents
- Celebrate our diverse communities, and proactively challenge inequalities based on race, disability, sexuality, gender or any other characteristic
- Promote Lewisham as a place to live, work, study and invest in
- Create a safer borough for everyone
Read more about the Lewisham Strategic Partnership and the Community Action Plan.