Community & Citizenship

We believe that all people have the right to be full contributing citizens and that this can be achieved by striving to fulfill the promise and ambition of personalisation.

• People’s safety and security depends upon them having loving and caring people looking out for them. Checks and systems invariably fail them.
• Most of the things that really matter to people – relationships, economic security, citizenship, a chance to really contribute, a home where I can be myself, autonomy, and safety & security – are rarely in the gift of services alone.
• People rarely have their most important needs met by services alone – a decent life invariably is based upon relationships, citizenship, and being truly included.
• Our experience mirrors that of the personalisation ‘pilots’ – that, while some people’s lives are enhanced by their control of the funds alone, sea-change improvements are derived when we attend to helping folk achieve their ‘good lives’ rather than simply shopping for services.
• Hence, LivesthroughFriends places the development of sustainable relationship networks and natural support at the centre of its work.

In this way individuals and their families can plan and budget for their needs in ways that recognise the central importance of loving and caring Communities, building upon existing relationships and networks or actively setting out to create these where they do not exist.

Yes, there is Much More To Life Than Services.