Your community

South Northants Homes believes community development is about building active and sustainable communities based on social justice and mutual respect. The SNH Community Development Team supports individuals, groups, communities and organisations in this process on the basis of strong values and commitments.

It is also important to recognise both resident involvement and community development, and the link between the two. Through our community development work, we aim to build trust and mutual respect with our customers and hope that by doing this, we will encourage more residents to get involved with SNH.

Community development is an important area of SNH’s work. It does not stand alone, but integrates with all aspects of SNH’s activities, which results in:

• residents having a real, focussed influence over
  the place they live in

• more efficient use of resources

• improved customer/stakeholder involvement in
  the development of SNH’s housing services

• improved customer service

• ensuring communities are sustainable and are
  places where people want to live

• SNH community representation on wider,
  decision-making bodies

• supporting communities to make positive
  changes to meet their needs and priorities

• recognising local people as an asset – providing
  experience, knowledge, expertise, enthusiasm
  and effort

• working together with local people and other key
  stakeholders to ensure our communities are
  sustainable

• tackling issues such as social exclusion, poverty,
  discrimination, worklessness, crime and fear of
  crime, equality and diversity

We will encourage, motivate and empower our residents to be involved in SNH's work. We will provide the training and support that both individuals and groups need in order to contribute to their communities and to the success of SNH.