Communities together
Celebrating our communities
We believe people’s different backgrounds, cultures, religions
and viewpoints should be mutually respected, and we’re working hard
to make everyone across Rochdale borough feel the same. We want our
communities to feel confident in working together to create a
brighter future for Rochdale borough.
Therefore we’re committed to making sure:
- There is a common vision and a sense of belonging for all
communities;
- The diversity of people's backgrounds and circumstances is
appreciated and positively valued;
- Those from different backgrounds have similar life
opportunities;
- People from different backgrounds develop strong and positive
relationships with each other in the workplace, in schools and
within neighbourhoods.
The Local Public Service Board is a multi agency
partnership which leads on the development of the boroughs
Community Strategy. The document sets out our partnership borough
wide priorities for the next 4 years and a vision for the next 10
years.
The Big Society is the Government's vision of a society where
individuals and communities have more power and responsibility, and
use it to create better neighbourhoods and local services.
Faith communities undertake a wide variety of activities in
communities, either linked to places of worship or through
organisations and projects.
See if money is available to help communities.
Rochdale Borough has a great reputation for welcoming people
from other places. Find out more here.
Welcome
to Rochdale borough (10Mb pdf file)
Basic information about local services and how to access them
Our vision for equality and diversity is of the Council
representing, serving and employing people as equals
and valuing the diversity of their contributions and
aspirations no matter who they are or what their circumstance.
Rochdale Borough’s Safer Communities Partnership has developed a
draft Community Cohesion Strategy for 2012-2014. This is due to be
published this year.
Community Cohesion is about supporting diverse groups of people
to successfully live alongside each other. A key component of this
is promoting understanding and harmonious relationships between
existing residents and newer residents to the borough and
developing a shared sense of belonging.
This draft strategy demonstrates our commitment to providing a
strong foundation for a cohesive borough by tackling inequalities,
promoting fairness and empowering confident communities. Over the
last year much work has been undertaken to strengthen and support
the development of this strategy to ensure the resulting programme
is evidence based and targeted at locally identified issues.
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how we're tackling it.