Annex 1

Bracknell Forest Partnership Community Engagement Strategy 2009/13

Final annual monitoring report 2012/13

Contents

1. Introduction ...... 3 2. Bracknell Forest’s communities...... 4 3. What is community engagement? ...... 4 4. Commitment and collaboration...... 5 5. Our Community Engagement Strategy 2009/13 ...... 5 5.1 The first three years...... 7 5.2 This year...... 8 6. What difference has the overall strategy made?...... 10 7. Next steps ...... 11

Appendix 1 : Refreshed action plan: final monitoring autumn 2013

1. Introduction

In Bracknell Forest borough, a number of organisations have come together to create Bracknell Forest Partnership. This collaboration brings together agencies that deliver public services (Bracknell Forest Council, Town and Parish Councils, Bracknell Forest Homes, Police, Fire and Rescue Services and health services) with businesses and representatives from local voluntary, community and faith organisations.

We recognise and celebrate the diversity in our communities and want to make sure that everyone in Bracknell Forest has the opportunity to have their voice heard and get involved in shaping our shared future. Since May 2009, Bracknell Forest Partnership’s second Community Engagement Strategy has outlined and guided how partners will work together to ensure local people are informed, involved, consulted and enabled to take action themselves to contribute to the life the borough.

Our second Community Engagement Strategy was due to finish in April 2012. In 2011 however, we extended it for a further year to March 2013 to take account of new policies and guidelines introduced by the coalition Government, and local and national developments in community engagement work.

This is final annual monitoring report of the Community Engagement Strategy 2009/13. In producing the report, we’ve taken the opportunity to look back briefly over the lifetime of the strategy. What we’ve achieved and learned over the last four years has fed into the development of Bracknell Forest Partnership’s new Community Engagement Strategy 2013/16.

2. Bracknell Forest’s communities

Bracknell Forest is home to many diverse and varied communities.

● Communities of place – there are many distinct geographical areas in Bracknell Forest, from Sandhurst and Crowthorne in the south of the borough, to the semi-rural communities in Binfield, and Winkfield and Warfield in the north. Bracknell town sits in the centre and is home to most of the borough’s commercial and industrial areas. Each geographical area has its own identity and is served by one of six Parish and Town Councils. Parish and Town Councils provide services for local residents; all engage and communicate with their communities throughout the year; and some celebrate and recognise local people’s contribution through annual awards.

● Communities of interest – There are a number of communities of need and interest which cut across geographical areas, including (but not exclusively) people with different faiths, people of black and minority ethnic origin, older people, people with disabilities, young people and vulnerable adults.

● The voluntary and community sector – There is also a diverse voluntary, community and faith sector in Bracknell Forest, with over 600 groups and organisations providing valuable support and services to our residents. The sector is vital to the borough’s cohesion, advocating for, strengthening and meeting the needs of our communities. Bracknell Forest Voluntary Action is the central support and development agency for voluntary, community and faith groups in Bracknell Forest.

● Businesses – A number of large international companies and small- and medium- sized employers have made Bracknell Forest their operations base. Many local businesses, large and small, play an active part in strengthening and supporting our communities, through corporate social responsibility (CSR) programmes and by providing significant numbers of volunteers across the borough.

● Elected members – Elected members of Bracknell Forest Council and the Town and Parish Councils play a key role in the borough. They get to know people in their wards and develop a great knowledge of local community issues. Members also meet regularly with residents, represent their communities and bring their views into the decisions Bracknell Forest borough faces.

3. What is community engagement?

‘Community engagement’ has many definitions and covers a huge variety of approaches and methods. For Bracknell Forest Partnership, community engagement is about making sure that local people can get involved and take part in the planning, development and delivery of services, support and activities – to benefit the whole Bracknell Forest community.

There are four ways in which we engage with our communities:

● Providing information – we give people information about events, services, policies and decisions which might affect and/or interest them. We make sure the information is easy to find and understand. ● Consulting – we offer opportunities for people to have a say about services, support and activities, and provide a genuine opportunity for them to voice their opinions.

● Involvement in decision making – we provide opportunities for people to influence and feed back on decisions and become involved in developing and commissioning services. ● Developing communities – we support communities and voluntary, community and faith groups to identify their own needs and, within available resources, take action to meet them. We can support communities to build their skills and capacity to deliver services and support for themselves.

Each of the above is important in the community engagement process, but we choose different approaches depending on the context and circumstances.

4. Commitment and collaboration

One of Bracknell Forest Partnership’s lasting priorities, set out in our overarching Sustainable Community Strategy 2008/14, is to develop engaged and empowered communities:

‘There will be a listening culture in Bracknell Forest, where the community in all its varied voices is heard and understood. People will respect one another and communities will be caring, getting on well together and having a sense of belonging and social responsibility. Community views will shape and influence the very core of public services and everyone will have the opportunity to play their part in how local services are delivered.’

All members of the partnership are strongly committed to ensuring that local communities can take action and participate in whatever way they wish to influence service delivery, decision making and policy development. To make this work well, we take a coordinated and collaborative approach to community engagement.

5. Our Community Engagement Strategy 2009/13

Bracknell Forest Partnership’s second Community Engagement Strategy 2009/13 had six aims, each underpinned by several objectives.

Aims Objectives

1. Increase the effectiveness and 1. Raising awareness and improving efficiency of community engagement communication on engagement in work through forward planning, improved the workforces of partners communication and increased 2. Improving communication collaboration between those working directly with communities and those in strategic roles 3. Where appropriate, joining up and sharing engagement mechanisms to improve coordination and avoid duplication

Aims Objectives

2. Increase the inclusiveness of 1. Increasing awareness and consultation and engagement activities understanding of the needs of ensuring that all people have equal specific groups to ensure opportunity to have their voices heard engagement work is accessible to all 2. Supporting community development work with specific communities under-represented in partners’ engagement work

3. Increase community engagement skills 1. Ensuring partnership members among partners sign up to good consultation principles and practices 2. Delivering training and guidance in community engagement; promoting and sharing examples of good practice

4. Improve understanding and 1. Coordinating partnership appreciation of our community community mapping and developing this into a centrally held evidence base, accessible to all partners 2. Ensuring that findings from engagement work and consultations are summarised and shared to help shape partners’ plans and strategies

5. Ensure community engagement work 1. Measuring the impact of has a genuine influence on the community consultation on development, commissioning and partners’ service development provision of services by evaluating the and delivery impact and outcomes 2. Feeding back to communities on the outcomes of consultation, detailing how their input has affected service provision 3. Summarising consultations and making them available

6. Enable communities to take an active 1. Encouraging the reporting of role in tackling the issues that affect them community issues to relevant partners 2. Publicising events and activities for communities to become involved in and details of how they can become involved

When we developed the strategy in 2009, we also agreed a detailed action plan to deliver on each of our shared aims and objectives. This was refreshed and extended in 2011 – and it is the last year of that action plan we’re reporting against here (see Appendix 1).

5.1 The first three years

The following is a selection of some of Bracknell Forest Partnership’s community engagement achievements over the first three years of the Community Engagement Strategy - from April 2009 to March 2012.

Supporting local practitioners Bracknell Forest Partnership launched its first Community Engagement Protocol and Toolkit in March 2012. The Toolkit provides best practice guidance on engaging communities in Bracknell Forest and gives practical information for anyone involved in community engagement work locally, while the Protocol sets out the principles of good community engagement to which Bracknell Forest Partnership is committed.

Respect, responsibility and rights In 2010, Sandhurst Town Council developed a ‘Respect, Responsibility and Rights Community’ initiative – ‘3Rs’. Since the start of the programme, Thames Valley Police have reported that anti-social behaviour and criminal damage has drastically reduced, particularly around the Memorial Park in Sandhurst and surrounding areas.

Reaching out through social media Bracknell Forest Council developed a series of social media channels including its own Facebook, Twitter and YouTube accounts as well as some Facebook and Twitter accounts for particular services. Social media offers a different way of keeping residents, visitors and local businesses informed about what the Council or a specific service is doing in terms of news, events, consultations, job opportunities and more.

Disability access The DisabledGo Bracknell Forest online access guide was launched in February 2011 to help people with disabilities to get around the borough. Developed for Bracknell Forest Partnership, the free guide offers detailed access information about 500+ Bracknell Forest venues including shops, restaurants, hotels, pubs, leisure centres, libraries, parks and countryside.

Mutual understanding Bracknell Forest’s Faith and Belief Forum was launched in 2011, with funding from Faiths in Action secured by Bracknell Forest Voluntary Action (BFVA). The project’s legacy is faithh and belief organisations sharing and working together. The forum, involving many different faiths and beliefs, has evolved into a positive working and learning partnership, founded on mutual respect and understanding.

Understanding our communities In October 2010, Bracknell Forest Council commissioned the Institute of Community Cohesion (ICoCo) to undertake a project mapping faith and belief in the borough to build on research by BFVA. The resulting report gave a detailed description, narrative and profile of Bracknell Forest’s changing population by faith and ethnicity. Further research in 2011, Faith and Belief Communities in Action, explored the subject in

more depth and set out how Bracknell Forest Partnership could most effectively engage with members of our communities on these issues.

5.2 This year We have made good progress in achieving the strategy’s aims in 2012/13. The following is a selection of some of Bracknell Forest Partnership’s community engagement successes from April 2012 to March 2013.

Tackling hate crime Hate crime is any criminal offence committed against a person or property motivated by hostility towards someone based on their disability, race, religion, gender identity or sexual orientation. A new Bracknell Forest hate crime awareness campaign, ‘One Community: Stop Hate Crime Now’, was launched in September 2012 to engage the community in better reporting of hate crime.

Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities Bracknell Forest Homes and Bracknell Forest Council worked in partnership to run anti-bullying workshops for children on the local traveller site, using arts and crafts to engage the children in exploring bullying issues in schools and encouraging them to enter a borough-wide anti-bullying poster competition. Artwork from the children’s workshops was displayed in the receptions of both lead organisations and at other venues across the borough. During the year, Bracknell Forest Council also invited a Gypsy storyteller to deliver whole-day sessions reflecting Gypsy, Roma and Traveller culture at College Town Infant, College Town Junior and Owlsmoor Primary schools. . Sharing life stories and cultural activities With financial support from the Ministry of Defence’s Community Covenant Fund and Bracknell Forest Homes, Bracknell Forest Council’s storytelling project aimed to give young children insight into what life is like in Nepal, the UK and the Armed Forces. Children from two primary schools in Sandhurst met with older people and other locals, including those from the Nepali community, to gather stories about their lives. The stories were translated into English and taken back to the schools. Students then worked on producing their own interpretations with the support of a drama company and performed to 200 members of the local community at the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst in November 2012. Bracknell Forest Council also held a cultural day in March 2013 at College Town schools and the nearby children’s centre. Open to the whole community, the event included food, music, dancing, displays and pictures. The day involved the Nepali and Armed Forces communities and involved and celebrated Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities – very much a part of the history and culture of College Town’s diverse population.

Building the voluntary sector’s strength Bracknell Forest Council’s Lifelong Learning Community Project funding enabled BFVA to deliver capacity-building activities to organisations and individuals from Bracknell Forest’s voluntary sector. As part of this, BFVA ran a range of training courses including volunteer management, minibus driving, food safety, health and safety, communication and safeguarding vulnerable people.

Getting young people on board More than 1,300 young visitors attended the Bracknell Forest careers event in October 2012 to get information and advice about future job prospects from employers, education providers and volunteer organisations. The day-long event, organised by Bracknell Forest Partnership, Learning to Work, and business sponsors also hosted more than 70 exhibitors.

Putting local residents and businesses in charge In 2012, Wildridings and Central ward was awarded a £17,000 three-year grant from the government Cabinet Office’s Community First Programme. The programme aims to help strengthen communities and enable them to come together. During the year, residents and businesses were encouraged to put forward project ideas and apply for funding. In January 2013 a residents’ survey went to every household in the ward. This was part of a consultation carried out to help develop an overall plan for improving the area.

Listening to deaf and hard-of-hearing people BADHOGS (Bracknell Area Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Support Group) carried out a deaf-awareness review at all Bracknell Forest Council Community Centres. The review helped the Community Associations, which run the Centres, look at ways they can improve how they engage with deaf and hard-of-hearing people. As a result, Bracknell Forest Council is installing high-visibility strobe warning lights for emergency evacuation at all of the Centres.

Have your say online During the year, Bracknell Forest Council invested in new consultation software. This has enabled the development of an online consultation portal to be launched to residents in autumn 2013.

You said, we did - Healthy Minds Early in 2012, Bracknell Forest Council decided to learn more about the priorities of clients with mental health needs and the organisations and carers who also support them. The Council organised a 12-week stakeholder consultation (from April to July 2012) and hosted a consultation workshop. People were encouraged to contribute by attending the consultation event, completing questionnaires and giving online feedback. Responses came from a wide range of people from right across the borough and there were nearly 600 comments about their experiences, needs and wishes. The consultation informed the development of Bracknell Forest Council’s Healthy Minds: a commissioning strategy for adults with mental health needs 2013/18. The strategy focuses on 12 priorities, all directly driven by what people said they wanted during the consultation.

Reviewing our action plan In 2011, the Community Engagement Strategy action plan was reduced, prioritised and extended for a further year to March 2013. This gave us time to take account of local and national developments in community engagement work. Appendix 1 highlights the progress made in implementing the refreshed action plan in 2012/13.

In summary:

√ Of the 14 tasks in the action plan, 11 have been completed or are ongoing.

√ Of the 14 tasks in the action plan, 11 are green and three are amber. There are no red tasks. We have prioritised the three amber tasks in our new Community Engagement Strategy 2013/16.

√ Of the nine high priority actions, four have been completed, three are ongoing and two have not yet been achieved. As above, the two high priority actions will be a focus for us over the next three years.

6. What difference has the overall strategy made? We want to find out whether the Community Engagement Strategy 2009/13 has really made a difference to how we engage with our communities.

Although the national indicator set for local authorities was abolished by central government in autumn 2010, Bracknell Forest Partnership decided to continue to monitor the performance of the Community Engagement Strategy against four of the indicators, measured by surveying local residents. Bracknell Forest Council runs a residents’ survey every two years, the most recent of which was in autumn 2012. The table below compares the headline results from the Residents’ Survey 2012 to comparable results from two previous surveys, the Place Survey 2008 and the Neighbourhood Survey 2009.

in 2008 or Indicator Percentage of people who… in 2012 2009

…believe people from different NI 001 82% 87% backgrounds get on well together

…feel they can influence decisions in NI 004 28% 30% their locality

…participate in regular (monthly) NI 006 21% 28% volunteering

…perceive that people in the area ( do NI 023 not) treat one another with respect and 30% 14% dignity

Due to differences in question ordering and questions themselves, the above results can only be indicative. However, they demonstrate that there have been a number of significant positive changes in how we engage with our communities during the lifetime of Bracknell Forest Partnership’s Community Engagement Strategy 2009/13.

2008 or 2012 Indicator Percentage of people who… 2009

…believe people from different 87% NI 001 82% backgrounds get on well together

…feel they can influence decisions in 30% NI 004 28% their locality

…participate in regular (monthly) 28% NI 006 21% volunteering

…perceive that people in the area (do 14% NI 023 not) treat one another with respect and 30%

dignity

Due to differences in question ordering and questions themselves, the above results can only be indicative. However, they demonstrate there have been a number of significant positive changes in how we engage with our communities during the lifetime of our Community Engagement Strategy 2009/13 .

7. Next steps

We’re proud of the community engagement work we have fostered in Bracknell Forest borough over the last three years, but we are not complacent.

In light of the economic climate and changes in public sector funding, Bracknell Forest Partnership now, more than ever, needs to involve communities in helping us to make tough decisions about services, spending and investment priorities. We know that involving communities can lead to better decision making and getting services right the first time. We also know that people will get involved if they feel that they can influence change and know that their contribution has made a difference.

Bracknell Forest Partnership’s Community Engagement Strategy 2013/16 sets out how we will respond positively to these challenges and opportunities.

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G (green) complete or ongoing A (amber) satisfactory progress or not yet fully achieved R (red) no progress made

Guide to abbreviations BFVA Bracknell Forest Voluntary Action CCEPG Bracknell Forest Partnership’s Community Cohesion and Equalities Partnership Group CEE Bracknell Forest Council’s Community Engagement and Equalities team ESG Bracknell Forest Council’s Equalities Subgroup

Aim 1: Increase the effectiveness and efficiency of community engagement work through forward planning, improved communication and increased collaboration

Action(s) Responsibility Timescal Milestones/ Priority Progress to date 2012/13 Status e success criteria

1. Work to further develop web CEE/partners Ongoing New technology High Bracknell Forest Council G technology that will engage piloted bought software to communities. develop an online consultation portal. This has been soft launched and will formally go public to residents later in 2013.

With the support of Bracknell Forest Council, Berkshire Community Healthcare Foundation Trust are delivering a web- based consultation

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Aim 1: Increase the effectiveness and efficiency of community engagement work through forward planning, improved communication and increased collaboration

Action(s) Responsibility Timescal Milestones/ Priority Progress to date 2012/13 Status e success criteria

mechanism (Clicker 6 consultation software) to enable and ease engagement with people with learning disabilities, stroke or head injury, older people, those with English as a second language, those with poor educational attainment, and people with sensory impairments.

2. Produce an annual forward CCEPG Annually Template for forward Low A forward plan is G plan of key engagement and plan for partners produced quarterly and consultation activities and make established and published on Bracknell available to all partners on quarterly updates Forest Council’s website. Bracknell Forest Council’s circulated to CCEPG. website, until such time as web technology is improved to fulfil this role.

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Aim 2: Increase the inclusiveness of consultation and engagement activities ensuring that all people have equal opportunity to have their voices heard

Action(s) Responsibility Timescal Milestones/ Priority Progress to date Status e success criteria 2012/13

1. Support work on the ‘Big CCEPG Ongoing Increase community High Bracknell Forest’s ‘Take G Society’ including Bracknell engagement and Pride’ initiative ran Forest’s ‘Take Pride’ initiative responsibility successfully throughout and the Sandhurst ‘3Rs’ the year, with volunteers project, and maintain effective coming forward to clear engagement between partners up local areas for and with residents example. Since January 2012, the project has supported 45 litter picks .

The Sandhurst ‘3Rs’ project began to develop a relationship with the Institute of Community Cohesion and Southampton University to evaluate the project’s impact.

Bracknell Forest Council launched a new dog owners and dog walkers code of conduct,

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promoted through an information leaflet which has been distributed by rangers, environmental protection officers, Sandhurst Town Council and Bracknell Forest Partnership’s Cleaner Borough Group. To complement this, Bracknell Forest’s six Parish and Town Councils are running a 'Be A Responsible Dog Owner' (BARDO) campaign.

2. Keep up to date the CCEPG Ongoing Schools Census and High The Schools Census and G information we have on our Department for Work Department for Work and diverse communities, sharing and Pensions data Pensions data have been information and developing new monitored annually regularly monitored. initiatives as needed, in order to by group. ensure fair access to services CCEPG has also for all. reviewed the Census 2011 data. This information is shared with partners through Bracknell Forest Council’s Stats.Share database. Acting on the intelligence the census offers about local communities will be

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a priority in the partnership’s new Community Engagement Strategy 2013/16. The Stats.Share group is also producing ward profiles in partnership with Berkshire Public Health Shared Service. The service has appointed a Programme Manager to oversee the development of a joint strategic needs assessment to ensure there is a good evidence base for responding to the needs of diverse communities.

3. Improve access to ESG/CEE March High Bracknell Forest Council's G engagement and consultation 2013 Interpretation and activities, increasing Translation Guide awareness and skills in provides information and partners’ workforces of the advice to staff on support needs of particular accessibility issues. groups and format tools/technology to meet these.

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4. Increase engagement with Economic and Skills Ongoing Workshops and High The local Enterprise Hub A local businesses through a Development forums held opened with a networking number of co-ordinated Partnership and recruitment session in workshops and forums March 2013, attended by 65 people.

There is work in progress to develop a number of themed workshops for small- and medium-sized enterprises around marketing, pension responsibilities for employers and other issues.

A ‘Business and Community’ event was held in April 2013, organised by BFVA in partnership with Waitrose. This built on existing corporate social responsibility work and aimed to establish a structured framework to enable businesses and community groups to form mutually beneficial relationships, and provide a focus for businesses to engage more effectively

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with their local community.

5. Implement the outcome of CEE March New model of High The Neighbourhood G Bracknell Forest Partnership’s 2013 neighbourhood Action Groups now Neighbourhood Engagement engagement operate as independent Review, working with partners embedded. community groups and to embed a new the Parish and Town neighbourhood engagement Councils are recognised model. as playing a key role in supporting community engagement. 6. Increase awareness of CCEPG Ongoing Quarterly Mediu Regular presentations G regional and national issues presentations at m have been delivered. regarding specific community CCEPG groups through presentations and briefings.

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Aim 3: Increase community engagement skills among partners

Milestones/success Action(s) Responsibility Timescale Priority Progress to date 2012/13 Status criteria

1. Explore how training can best BFVA/HR in each March Number of training Medium A group of 16 Bracknell G be delivered to communities organisation 2013 and development Forest Council employees, and to partners’ workforces to opportunities who have consultation and increase community engagement as a key part engagement and development of their roles, have skills attended a training programme delivered by The Consultation Institute. All those attending have been awarded a Certificate of Professional Development in consultation skills.

Funding through Bracknell Forest Council’s Lifelong Learning Community Project Fund has enabled BFVA to deliver a programme of community capacity building to the voluntary, community and faith sector workforce. BFVA ran 39 courses with 385 learners from 91

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Aim 3: Increase community engagement skills among partners

organisations. In addition, three out of a series of six modules have been held to increase the skills of those who manage volunteers in the community.

2. Review the use of BF1500 CEE/CCEPG Annually Medium The Panel has not been A Residents’ Panel well used over the last four years by Bracknell Forest Council or its partners. Its future will therefore be reviewed.

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Aim 4: Improve our understanding and appreciation of our communities

The actions supporting this aim related to the Sustainable Community Strategy evidence base and have been completed.

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Aim 5: Ensure community engagement work has a genuine influence on the development, commissioning and provision of services by evaluating the impact and outcomes

Milestones/success Progress to date Action(s) Responsibility Timescale Priority Status criteria 2012/13 G 1. Work with Bracknell Forest CEE/web team March Feedback mechanism High Bracknell Forest Council’s Council’s web team to 2013 developed online consultation portal develop a feedback is designed to provide mechanism using web access to feedback on technology, and give feedback consultations. to all consultees, not just those who responded to a consultation BFVA provides updates G 2. Support workers in the field, BFVA/partners Ongoing All groups informed of Medium on news and including those in the progress of opportunities through Development Workers multiagency publications and events. Network, by feeding back to strategies/initiatives In addition, through the community groups through through regular Voluntary Sector Forum parish newsletter/community updates against action regular updates are magazines. plans. provided to elected representatives on strategic bodies.

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Aim 6: Enable communities to take an active role in tackling the issues that affect them

Action(s) Responsibility Timescale Milestones/success Priorit Progress to date Status criteria y 1. Identify under-represented BFVA/CCEPG March Increased knowledge High Bracknell Forest Faith and A communities and research and 2013 of Bracknell Forest’s Belief Forum continues to understand particular communities grow with regular events communities’ characteristics with high participation. and needs. Bracknell Forest Minorities Alliance is currently not meeting regularly therefore further intervention is planned to try to re-establish some form of network. 2. Identify appropriate BFVA/CCEPG March Number of new High BFVA provides G community leaders and work 2013 community leaders developmental support as with them to understand their supported. required to all networks issues and develop community and voluntary groups capacity. including the Faith and Belief Forum, Over Fifty Forum and Jealott’s Hill Community Landshare.

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