A Warm Welcome for All: Our five-year strategy

Inspired by the extraordinary work and impact of local spaces, our five-year strategy sets out a vision for how Warm Welcome can become a key piece of social infrastructure in the UK over the next five years, unlocking the power of community spaces all year round and creating a thriving network of hope and reconnection.

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Our strategy has been developed in partnership with local spaces and a coalition of regional and national organisations representing the worlds of charity, faith, business, government, and philanthropy. It is ambitious and hopeful, but no more ambitious and hopeful than the remarkable volunteers who create the real human warmth of Warm Welcome Spaces across the UK.

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Our big ambition is to make our country full of Warm Welcomes for All.

Our research shows that although 62% of the population live within a 30-minute walk of a local space, local awareness of these spaces is low. Only 18% of people across the UK say they are aware of a space near their home. We want to change this.

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Over the next five years we want to grow the number of Warm Welcome Spaces so everyone has a space close to home and raise awareness nationally and locally so everyone can easily find their local Warm Welcome Space. We’ll work hard to reach everyone with the message that a Warm Welcome is waiting for them, just around the corner, all through the year.

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By working together, we can make sure 100% of the population can find a Warm Welcome Space in their neighbourhood, in spaces where people of all cultures, backgrounds, faiths, and walks of life can come together in their communities.

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Our new strategy has four strategic cornerstones:

1. To create local, regional, and national communities of connection.
2. To help spaces access the resources they need to thrive.
3. To tell the story of Warm Welcome for positive change.
4. To be a sustainable, inclusive, and trusted organisation.
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You can read about our new strategy here and find out more about our ambition to enable a Warm Welcome for All.
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We can’t achieve this alone; we need your help too. We are asking partner organisations of all kinds to join our movement to make the country full of Warm Welcomes for All. Together we can enable a more deeply connected society where we all have free access to welcoming community spaces fuelled by human warmth.

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