Aims
To build cultural, social and economic infrastructure that supports individual and collective wellbeing, community connection, ecological responsibility and practical social change.
To create welcoming spaces and gatherings where people and organisations working for social, cultural and environmental change can connect, collaborate, share ideas, build trust and generate collective action.
To raise awareness of healthier, happier and more sustainable ways of living, and to support people in adopting practices that strengthen wellbeing, community life and ecological responsibility.
To tackle social exclusion, worklessness and alienation by providing people with the inspiration, support, relationships and infrastructure needed to become more economically, socially, culturally and civically active.
To promote creativity as a means of self-expression, confidence-building, cultural communication, personal development and social transformation, particularly for young people and those who have been marginalised or excluded.
To support the development of social enterprises, ethical trading, community economy initiatives and other practical alternatives to extractive or purely profit-driven economic models.
To cultivate the values, ideas, worldviews and forms of practice needed to challenge failing orthodoxies and make more cooperative, ecological and humane ways of living practically achievable.
Objectives
To establish and operate Synergy Centres as affordable, mixed-use cultural and community spaces where people can gather, learn, organise, work, create, trade, collaborate and develop practical responses to social and ecological challenges.
To develop Synergy Gatherings as fun, social and welcoming outreach events that combine culture, dialogue, hospitality and shared experience, strengthening existing movements for change while creating accessible pathways for new people to become involved.
To provide facilities for workshops, presentations, exhibitions, training, public dialogue, wellbeing activity, sustainability education, creative practice, community organising and partner-led programming.
To cultivate social capital by bringing together artists, activists, researchers, students, social entrepreneurs, wellbeing practitioners, environmental organisations, community groups and members of the wider public in ways that generate trust, partnership and collective capacity.
To provide advice, training, mentoring and incubation support for voluntary, third-sector, cultural, creative, ecological and social-enterprise initiatives seeking to serve local communities.
To support fellowship pathways for students, artists, activists, researchers, social entrepreneurs and community organisers, helping them develop practical skills, confidence, networks, livelihoods and leadership capacity.
To operate community arts and cultural venues that develop, present and showcase both professional and community arts, incubate emerging talent, and support creative-industry skills, especially among young people.
To support ethical enterprise, local value retention and community economy activity, including skills exchange, ethical retail, social enterprise support and, where appropriate, complementary-currency or internal-credit mechanisms such as Synergies.
To promote active citizenship by helping people move from passive concern into participation, volunteering, membership, fellowship, project leadership and stewardship of the wider community.
To develop UK-Ghana and wider international exchange through cultural programming, fellowship, ethical trade, education, climate action, tourism, creative enterprise and community partnership.
To provide innovative services and pathways that support the reintegration of socially and economically excluded people into purposeful community, cultural, educational and economic activity.