Swansea's Community Strategy “Shared Ambition is Critical” Better Swansea Partnership - Swansea's Community Strategy

Shared Ambition is Critical - Swansea's Community Strategy

What's Your Big Ambition?

Every local authority in Wales has a duty to prepare a community strategy or plan. They are developed by councils and their partners from the public, business and third sectors and are important because they articulate a shared vision of how to improve quality of life and well-being for their areas. Swansea's Community Strategy "Ambition is Critical" was first published in 2004 and has been annually updated since 2005. Copies of the Strategy and the Updates to the plan can be downloaded. The Welsh Assembly Government issued revised guidance in 2008 to ensure that Community Strategies make more of an impact. This guidance can be downloaded from the Welsh Assembly Government

To take on board this new Guidance, Swansea has produced a new Community Strategy plan. It was produced as a shadow document initially to allow for maximum consultation and engagement with interested groups. It also provided an opportunity for any new plans and strategies that were being produced, to be consistent with the new Community Strategy.

You can download a copy of the finalised Community Strategy "Shared Ambition is Critical – Swansea's Community Strategy 2010-14" in the 'downloads' column to the left.

For past and future events linked to the Community Strategy, click here and for previous Community Strategies, click here

You can download a copy of the Shadow Community Strategy from the City and County of Swansea Website: http://www.swansea.gov.uk/ambition

The three cross-cutting themes are: Sustainable Development, Social Inclusion and Culture & Heritage.

Other key Partnerships are: Children and Young People’s Partnership and Network 50+.

(Both of these partnerships will be linked more effectively to the Community Strategy under the Welsh Assembly Government’s proposals for plan reduction in 2009)

More details can be found within the ‘Better Swansea Partnership’ pages.