Area Action Plans

At a time of massive public sector cuts and job losses, Trust Thamesmead wants to redouble its efforts to support the Community Voluntary Sector; to defend existing services and promote new ones.

Our Area Action Plans spell out our approach and priorities for action for 2011 and beyond and invites your participation.

Trust Thamesmead is the only community development agency for Thamesmead which, taking in the local government wards of Thamesmead Moorings (Greenwich) and Thamesmead East (Bexley), and parts of Glyndon (Greenwich) and Lesnes Abbey Ward (Bexley).

Thamesmead's diversity is another potential weakness. Not two areas of Thamesmead are the same.

Differences are evident in the range and types of housing available; in the quality of environment and access to services; in the different ethnic mixes within communities; and the differences in the quality of life lived by local people.

In order to address these differences the Trust has developed an area based approach to community development and our Area Action Plans for Thamesmead Central, North, South and West, provide us with the framework for action over the coming years.

In each of these Area Action Plans we set out how we intend to measure the community voluntary sector aspects of 'social capital' in each distinct area of Thamesmead and our practical responses to them.

Each plan includes a brief description of community facilities that have a current or potential contribution to social capital.

Each area is then analysed according to the characteristics of the community voluntary sector (based on our research), and finally we describe the priorities for action that, based on evidence, provide the framework for our interventions.

While each Area Action Plan will address the specific issues in each of the four localities, they will work within the common framework governed by the Trust's four priority themes of an inclusive community, skills for life and work, community infrastructure and children, young people and families.

Read the full overview here.

North Thamesmead

The main issues facing North Thamesmead reflect the transient nature of part of the population caused by high levels of buy-to-rent properties and poor access to local services such as Post Offices. Read the full report here.

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South Thamesmead

South Thamesmead is in the London Borough of Bexley and remains one of the most economically and socially deprived areas in London. Read the full report here.

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Central Thamesmead

Central Thamesmead was originally conceived as being the community heart of an interconnected artery of joined settlements but several things have undermined this vision. Read the full report here.

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West Thamesmead

West Thamesmead is probably the least developed of the four areas in terms of community infrastructure and least well served in terms of community voluntary organisations. Read the full report here.

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