We know that many people face multiple challenges – living in isolation or with significant health issues in communities with few facilities and limited employment prospects.  We work with partners to address these challenges in three ways:

• We improve people’s prospects - by increasing the confidence, skills, wellbeing and employability of those struggling in education or out of work.
• We create better places - by making communities greener, safer and healthier and by enabling people to work together to bring about change in their local area.
• We promote greener living and working – to help people and businesses reduce their environmental impact, improve their health, cut waste and save money.

Our approach is based on principles that underpin the way we work:

• We join things up – we bring our skills to bear and build partnerships that enable us to deliver maximum impact for communities and maximum value for money for those who help us do it - delivering better employment prospects, better health outcomes, better use of natural resources, better environments and stronger communities at the same time.
• We innovate - we develop and test new solutions to longstanding problems, constantly improving our own performance and sharing our learning with others. 
• We prevent problems – through our work we aim to keep people well, help them achieve in education and behave in ways which are respectful of others and the local and global environment, helping to prevent social and environmental problems and the associated waste of talent and resources.
• We support those in most need – we provide targeted support tailored to address the specific needs of vulnerable people and diverse communities, tackling material hardship as well as a poverty of hope and aspiration.