Our Mission and Vision
Mission;
"Commonweal Housing is a housing charity established to continue a family philanthropic legacy that aims to work in partnership with others as a test bed, innovator, researcher and campaigner for new models and new ways of working to find housing-based solutions to different forms of social injustice."
Vision;
"To deliver tangible results and the replication of learning from Commonweal supported projects"
We believe this means that within 5 years:
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Commonweal's solutions are being delivered more widely by others - enabling (actually demanding) and achieving replication by others to address needs and tackle injustices. Not holding on to learning or seeking ways to always deliver replication ourselves.
In achieving this primary vision we believe this also means that Commonweal will be;
- Visible - more people will know and understand who we are, what we aim to do, how we do it and what our successes have been.
- Recognised brand 1 - as a kite mark for quality tested/evaluated projects - as previously, regardless as to whether the project per se is perceived to have been successful or not people will recognise that Commonweal Housing played a vital part in enabling it to be tested and key learning points identified and promted.
- Recognised brand 2 - as a Charity per se Commonweal Housing has adopted appropriate standards and (where appropriate) secured relavent accreditation as a role model outfit.
- Cutting edge - an organisation that is willing to try something new and whilst not being reckless with limited resources is willing, as part of effective risk management, to absorb costs or limited success of projects if necessary, capture the learning from such events and certainly to tackle orthodoxy.