Let’s build connections to create the conditions for change

32 Steps to Togetherness Manual by Natasha Ereira-Guyer

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Why?

What?

Over the last four and a half years, our team of non-profit consultants has supported over 1,342 organisations and social action leaders advancing health, equality and social cohesion, through providing affordable or free support.

We have come to realise that all the issues we work on have a shared root cause: lack of social connection and loss of community. Isolation and loneliness has a detrimental effect on individuals. What’s more, widespread loneliness leads to social fragmentation, which inhibits democracy. Therefore, without connection and community, we are unhappy, unhealthy, divided, and disempowered.

We’ve launched a grassroots movement called Steps to Togetherness. We’ve come up with 32 practical actions that we can all take as individuals and as community leaders to build connections - first within and then between communities.

We want to support, celebrate and inspire people and organisations who are bringing people together in their respective communities across the UK; we aim to bring them together in a community of community leaders, which is united behind the 32 Steps vision.

How?

Over the last two years, we have:

  • Provided free support to support partners foster togetherness.

  • Hosted events (in-person conferences and online discussions).

  • Coalesced an online community on our Instagram channel sharing stories of togetherness from diverse communities across the UK.

  • Hosted a national poetry challenge in partnership with the National Poetry Library.

What we do…

What we have achieved so far…

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“Our lives are happier, healthier and safer if we get to know people in our communities who might seem different to us. Just spending time together builds trust and makes our country stronger. This manual provides the basis for doing exactly that.”

- Jon Yates, Author of Fractured: Why Our Societies are Coming Apart and how We Put Them Back Together Again

Togetherness Films

Celebrating Togetherness Conference in Peterborough

Meet our lived experience advisory board

We have set up a Lived Experience Reference Panel to shape and develop our grant-funded projects. The panel comprises faith-inspired and social action leaders - who have participated in earlier support programmes we have delivered, like Kinder Communities: Steps to Sustainability.

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Meet our Togetherness Advocates

To help us reach as many people with 32 Steps to Togetherness over the next two years, we’re delighted to be working with a team of 'Togetherness Advocates’. Togetherness Advocates are working pro-bono to bring 32 Steps to Togetherness to their different fields and geographies, running events and initiatives that they believe to be the most impactful and valuable.

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