The formation of the Charnwood Strategic Partnership (LSP) in 2002 and the production of the first Charnwood Community Strategy in 2003 was a new experience for the range of public, private and voluntary agencies represented on the LSP. The aim from inception was to add value by seeking to join up the actions of the individual partnerships/ agencies represented in order to secure an improved quality of life for everyone living and working in the Borough.

This second Charnwood Community Strategy is a key step forward for Charnwood Together, the Charnwood Local Strategic Partnership. This Strategy is about the future, set in the context of the path travelled, and it outlines a common vision of what that future can look like for Charnwood.

The Charnwood Together Board comprises of representatives of the following:

• Action for a Better Charnwood
• AstraZeneca
• Charnwood Arts (for the Partnership Forum)
• Leicestershire County and Rutland Primary Care Trust
• Charnwood Borough Council
• Voluntary Action Charnwood
• Charnwood Health and Wellbeing Forum
• Charnwood Racial Equality Council
• GOEM
• Job Centre Plus (for the Partnership Forum)
• Leicestershire County Council
• Leicestershire Police
• Leicestershire and Rutland Rural Community Council
• Local Association of Parish Councils
• Loughborough Chamber of Trade & Commerce
• Loughborough College
• Loughborough Council of Faiths
• Loughborough Town Centre Partnership
• Loughborough University
• William Davis

The Strategy sets out the Vision, Themes and Priority Action Areas that Charnwood Together will focus on in the period to 2011/12. The emphasis is on developing new ways of joint service delivery at a local level that makes a real difference to the quality of people’s lives. It is intended, over time, that partners will organise their budgets and resources to tackle the priorities identified in the strategy in a co-ordinated and focused way.