Can Do Communities are working to support community development on a social housing development in Fulbourn

June 19, 2009

Can Do Communities are working to support community development on a social housing development in Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire. We are facilitating a number of community initiatives, including developing a Good Neighbour Scheme for the village where a group of volunteers are on call to help people in the village with hospital visits, befriending, household repairs and other neighbourly deeds!

Throughout 2009 we will be working with residents to improve their sense of well being and general community spirit. The objectives of the project are firstly improving integration and social cohesion in the village. With this in mind a Welcome Pack and Good Neighbour scheme are being developed. The second main objective is Wider Village inclusiveness, its crucial that the whole village is given the opportunity to take part in the various initiatives, such as local people acting as community facilitators (people organising projects, passing on knowledge to others through informal training), environmental initiatives such as a ‘cut your carbon’ scheme and a locally based small grants re-investment scheme that supports local projects for all ages.