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What is the Horsham District Community Partnership?

Horsham District Community Partnership is our Local Strategic Partnership.

It is a broad independent partnership of groups and organisations, covering a wide range of public, private, voluntary and community interests. Our common aim is to work together to secure a better quality of life for all in the Horsham and Chanctonbury District.

Operating at a level that enables strategic decisions to be taken, it is also close enough to individual neighbourhoods to allow actions to be determined at community level. The Community Partnership aims to make a real impact on local people’s lives through the Horsham and Chanctonbury Community Strategy and its annual action plans.

Horsham District Community Partnership's Objectives are:

• To agree key priorities and actions to deal with economic, social and environmental issues for Horsham District
  
  
• To work towards greater involvement with the community
  
  
• To add value to work being undertaken to make a difference to the community
  
  
• To make clear and co-ordinated decisions which lead to better use of local resources
  
  
• To influence public service delivery
  
  
• To work together as a partnership with the community to develop the Community Strategy for Horsham District
  
  
• To ensure that the work we do is sustainable
  
  
• To work together with the community to meet local needs, priorities and to deliver actions
  
  

What is a Local Strategic Partnership?

A Local Strategic Partnership is a ‘partnership of partnerships’. It provides a single overarching local co-ordination framework within which other more specific local partnerships can operate.

LSPs are a key part of the Government’s agenda for regenerating local areas and tackling the problems of disadvantaged communities within them. The Government believes that challenges such as improving health, tackling crime and creating better housing require a “joined up” approach involving a range of local organisations working together. The government has asked each partnership to produce a Community Strategy which will co-ordinate effort to tackle priorities in each area.

HDCP Constitution>>

HDCP Annual Report May 2007>>

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