Community Hubs

Our Community Hubs work aims to build community connectivity and resilience, towards health and well-being for everyone.

Community Hubs are places found in the heart of our communities, where people find their common unity, develop friendships and purpose, share interests and expertise, where people can and get help, advice and guidance.

In emergencies, Community Hubs can become distribution centres for supplies and focal points for volunteer action. They can support communities to safeguard and include each other, generate funds and resources in their locality.

A connected and resourced network can improve:

– Community Sector Strength 

A connected, resilient and collaborative community sector is ready and able to respond to the needs of people and communities  

– Partnership working 

Best practice collaboration between public and community sector supports shared aims for people and communities 

– Community Health and Wellbeing 

Inclusive, resilient communities support mental, emotional and physical health and wellbeing for everyone

Read our Theory of Change to see all our objectives and outcomes for this programme.

This Theory of Change is the accumulation of four years of pre and post covid learning, bringing together the knowledge and learning of many people and organisations. It describes what resilience looks like for communities in the Stroud District and what we need to do to get there.

It can be used by funders, community leaders, public and community sector organisations to enable discussions and develop new approaches that support our Stroud District communities in these uncertain times. No doubt there will be more and new challenges ahead for which we need to prepare.

The Community Hubs Meet-ups are now being organised by Stroud District Council. Please read about their work here:Stroud District Community Hubs website.