Welcome to the Gloucestershire Community Toolkit - the ultimate guide to getting a community project off the ground, and keeping it going.
It features practical advice, common sense suggestions, a directory of useful contacts, lots of helpful information and an opportunity to share the experiences of others through a host of real-life success stories.
The Gloucestershire Community Toolkit has been produced by the Gloucestershire County Council Economic Development Unit in partnership with the Gloucestershire Market Towns Forum and the Gloucestershire Neighbourhood Projects Network, in association the BBC Gloucestershire.
It brings together a wealth of experience of working with and supporting community organisations and individuals from all over the county, and helping them turn their ideas into reality.
First things first
This Toolkit aims to help people in Gloucestershire to get ideas and initiatives off the ground. It is a 'first step' guide which includes useful advice and information from people who have either gone through the process themselves, or from experienced practitioners who have helped them.
To get the most from the Toolkit, we suggest you look first at the Four Steps to Success page to help you take on board all the different elements you need to address if you want your community idea to become reality. This has been written as a result of talking to people who have helped a variety of other initiatives - and who know and understand the pitfalls.
The People, Local Services, Buildings, Working & Learning, Environment and Active Community pages are each dedicated to different community project themes. Each has useful signposts to organisations and services which may be able to help you and real-life success stories.
Beelines features a selection of case histories from successful community and regeneration projects complete with key tips and information on funding sources and useful contacts. To print out Beelines and other sections of the toolkit in their entirety see our Downloads page.
Contact details are included in the Contacts Directory
The Gloucestershire Community Toolkit does not have all the answers, but we believe it may help to put you on the right path. It distils a wealth of experience and information from a wide range of sources and signposts the best help, advice and support available in Gloucestershire.
