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a brilliant future 2024-2027 Telling our story. Watch our film.honouring the past. providing for our present. leading the future. 2 • corporate strategy 2024-2027 Honouring the Past. Providing for our Present. Leading the Future. Introduction .............................................................................................................................................................................Pg 4 Who we are ..............................................................................................................................................................................Pg 5 Our Vision ................................................................................................................................................................................ Pg 7 Our Values, Guiding Principles, EDIB and ESG ............................................................................................................. Pg 8-11 Our Commitments to Safeguarding and Health & Safety ..........................................................................................Pg 13 A Brilliant Future, Bringing Our Strategy to Life .......................................................................................................... Pg 15 A Leader of Green Care ................................................................................................................................................. Pg 16-17 Quality Support and Housing Options ............................................................................................................................ Pg 19 Vibrant and diverse places to Live, Learn and Thrive ............................................................................................... Pg 20 Unlocking Homes and Asset Potential ..............................................................................................................................Pg 21 A Beacon of Land Management and Sustainability ............................................................................................ Pg 22-23 Foundations .................................................................................................................................................................... Pg 24-25 Shaping this strategy ........................................................................................................................................................... Pg 31 Contents corporate strategy 2024-2027 • 3 Honouring the Past. Providing for our Present. Leading the Future. Honouring the Past. Providing for our Present. Leading the Future. A Brilliant Future is the name of our new three- year strategy from 2024. We launch it in our 70th anniversary year, with respect for our history and an aspiration to shape a new future for social care. The people we support are at the heart of this strategy, they have told us what is important to them. They remain at the centre of what we do. A Brilliant Future follows our Brilliant Basics Strategy 2022-2024, which enabled us to emerge stronger following the pandemic with the fundamentals in place. Over the last two years our focus has been supporting the people of the charity to be their best selves every day. We have celebrated magic moments and heroic acts and have worked hard to define the things that differentiate us. We have built on our successes to create the foundations for our long-term future. We believe that we can play a leading role in re-imagining social care – enabling independence through emotional, social and physical wellbeing – supporting the person as a whole. Our aim is to integrate high-quality support, good quality housing with the proven health and wellbeing benefits of our natural environment. We want to unlock the connection between people and the planet. Introduction Our role is to support people through participation in learning, meaningful work, family life, leisure activities and relationships. This creates a chance to live a healthy, active and equal life. A Life of Opportunity. We will be known for driving personalisation. We will become technologically enhanced and advanced. We will focus on holistic wellbeing. To succeed in achieving our long-term sustainable goals we will Honour our Past, Provide for the Present and Lead the Future. It’s our plan and we deliver it together. A special thank you to Dr Rachel Bragg OBE for supporting us through our Theory of Change, helping to develop our impact quality framework and for continuing to provide us with guidance and support to unlock our collective potential. Sara Thakkar Chief Executive 4 • corporate strategy 2024-2027 Honouring the Past. Providing for our Present. Leading the Future. Our Vision Our Values, Guiding Principles, EDIB and ESG Safeguarding, Health & Safety A Brilliant Future Quality Support Live, Learn and Thrive Land Management and Sustainability Homes and Asset Potential Foundations Who we are Introduction A Leader of Green CareEstablished in 1954, Camphill Village Trust is a charity that supports adults with learning disabilities, autism and mental health problems. The philosophy of Rudolf Steiner, which focused on humanity and nature, inspired the Trust’s ethos. Today this is reflected by valuing everyone’s contribution, enabling personal pathways to development, celebrating the changing seasons, and respecting the rhythm of natural life. We operate in both rural and urban communities, building on our care (social) farming legacy. Our historical focus on enabling potential for people with support needs through farming, organic horticulture and enterprise centred on nature and traditional skills, continues to play to our strengths. This approach sets us apart from other contemporary providers and forms the basis of this strategy. We continue to support adults with learning disabilities, autism and mental health problems to live their best, independent lives. By applying our core values to modern social care, we ensure that our provision remains relevant to supported people and social care commissioners today. Who we are corporate strategy 2024-2027 • 5 The need for Adult Social Care The need for Green Care What we do Our vision Our Values and Guiding Principles Our EDIB Statement 2. Quality Support and a Life of Opportunity 3. Land Management and Sustainability 4. Homes and Asset Potential Foundations Supporting Evidence Post-pandemic society has revitalised and refocused the connections between the environment, nature and wellbeing. We believe that effective nature-based therapy and a broader Green Care framework can support a re-imagined answer to social care. We believe that Green Care can be scaled up to contribute to the quality of life and outcomes for people who access social care services and those seeking to join supported learning, skills and wellbeing programmes. Our new strategy is clear. We want to be leaders of the Green Care future – re-imagining an innovative, integrated, high-quality social care offer with the proven benefits of nature and the environment, resulting in A Life of Opportunity for people who access our services. To achieve this, we have refreshed our vision and guiding principles to reflect who we are today and the role we will play in creating an inclusive society where everyone has equal chance to realise their hopes, dreams and ambitions. Who we are 1. A Leader of Green Care a brilliant future corporate strategy 2024-2027 • 5 Honouring the Past. Providing for our Present. Leading the Future. Our Vision Our Values, Guiding Principles, EDIB and ESG Safeguarding, Health & Safety A Brilliant Future Quality Support Live, Learn and Thrive Land Management and Sustainability Homes and Asset Potential Foundations Who we are Introduction A Leader of Green Care Honouring the Past. Providing for our Present. Leading the Future. corporate strategy 2024-2027 • 6 There has never been a greater need for the support that we offer. 1.3m people in the UK have a learning disability, 950,000 of whom are adults (ONS). There are 700,000 autistic people in the UK, meaning that it affects 2.8m including their families (National Autistic Society). 1 in 4 people experience a mental health problem each year in England (Mind). This means that 2% of the adult population in the UK have a learning disability or autism, while a further 25% can relate to the challenges of poor mental health. The need for Adult Social Care Over ten million adults in England receive social care and support. Total spending by local authorities rose sharply due to Covid, with learning disability support for working- age adults costing around £5.5 billion annually. People with a disability frequently do not have a voice or control over their lives and are often seen as an amorphous group rather than as individuals. For adults with learning disabilities, there is also a lack of funding, awareness and limited opportunity to participate in meaningful activities on a daily basis to learn genuine life and vocational skills. This can lead to social isolation and a loss of independence. Although a connection to nature has proven benefits for health and wellbeing, access to nature is not equitable for those with a learning disability. Furthermore, limited education and knowledge of nutrition and healthy lifestyles (often combined with a lack of access to fresh fruit and vegetables), has resulted in an increase in unhealthy eating patterns and obesity for people with a learning disability. The need for Green Care We have developed a Theory of Change for Green Care to underpin this strategy, our evaluation, methodology, our impact measures and our communication. Our Theory of Change has resulted in our commitment to: • Nature-based therapy – structured and facilitated intervention led by practitioners • The benefit of nature-based health promotion • Nature in everyday life Our Green Care Offer has three pillars: Green Care Interventions/Nature-based Therapy: A range of indoor and outdoor supported interventions for people with a learning disability, autism or mental health support needs, designed to enhance purpose, increase skills, and reconnect to nature. Green Care Nature and Lifestyle Opportunities: Active promotion of health and wellbeing activity such as walks, access to nature projects, organic food growing, healthy eating initiatives. Nature-based health promotion: Promotion of active interaction with nature such as gardening and conservation and social/nature prescribing. 6 • corporate strategy 2024-2027 Honouring the Past. Providing for our Present. Leading the Future. Our Vision Our Values, Guiding Principles, EDIB and ESG Safeguarding, Health & Safety A Brilliant Future Quality Support Live, Learn and Thrive Land Management and Sustainability Homes and Asset Potential Foundations Who we are Introduction A Leader of Green Carecorporate strategy 2024-2027 • 7 The need for Green Care What we do Our vision Our Values and Guiding Principles Our EDIB Statement 2. Quality Support and a Life of Opportunity 3. Land Management and Sustainability 4. Homes and Asset Potential Foundations Supporting Evidence Who we are The need for Adult Social Care 1. A Leader of Green Care a brilliant future Our Vision 2024 – 2027: A Brilliant Future To be a national leader in Social and Green Care Integration, enabling more adults with learning disabilities, autism and mental health problems to live healthy, active and independent lives. We will re-imagine social care, designing a new answer to a challenged sector through the power of nature. We will fully integrate an outcome focused Green Care offer in a way that provides measurable impacts to a good and equal life; providing emotional, social, educational, work and leisure participation for those that we support. We will measure our social and environmental impact in equal measure to our financial performance. By 2027 we will have a fully integrated Supported Living and Green Care Model. We will be leading the way and will have an enviable community life cycle model. This will recognise the unique relationship between humanity and nature. corporate strategy 2024-2027 • 7 Honouring the Past. Providing for our Present. Leading the Future. Our Vision Our Values, Guiding Principles, EDIB and ESG Safeguarding, Health & Safety A Brilliant Future Quality Support Live, Learn and Thrive Land Management and Sustainability Homes and Asset Potential Foundations Who we are Introduction A Leader of Green CareOur values as a Trust and how we embed them in all we do will be essential to the successful delivery of this strategy. Our guiding principles remain the bridge between our history and our future. How we deliver this strategy is as important as what we do. We will create a behavioural framework that will underpin our culture, from recruitment to management, learning and development to leadership. Our EDIB vision is to become a place that embraces, enables and champions equality, diversity and inclusion. We want the people we support, our employees, volunteers, and other stakeholders to feel they belong and can bring their whole selves to the Trust. We want to be an inclusive workplace that enhances our teams’ dynamics, innovation and performance. Inclusion plays a huge part in achieving this. We will develop an EDIB Strategy with overarching goals. Our Values and Guiding Principles What is important to us Our Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging (EDIB) Statement This will be the golden thread that connects everyone to our vision, whilst also moving us closer to our longer-term aim of being an irresistible employer. 8 • corporate strategy 2024-2027 Honouring the Past. Providing for our Present. Leading the Future. Our Vision Our Values, Guiding Principles, EDIB and ESG Safeguarding, Health & Safety A Brilliant Future Quality Support Live, Learn and Thrive Land Management and Sustainability Homes and Asset Potential Foundations Who we are Introduction A Leader of Green Carecorporate strategy 2024-2027 • 9 The need for Green Care What we do Our vision Our Values and Guiding Principles Our EDIB Statement 2. Quality Support and a Life of Opportunity 3. Land Management and Sustainability 4. Homes and Asset Potential Foundations Supporting Evidence Who we are The need for Adult Social Care 1. A Leader of Green Care a brilliant future Environmental respect The Trust values and cares for the environment. This means that we understand the connection between the environment we live in and our well-being and that we actively promote living and eating sustainably, in harmony with the natural world. We want to play our role in making an impact on climate change and carbon neutrality. We want to maximise our long-term sustainability through our land and care farming history and as a landlord of choice. Promoting healthy living The Trust provides the opportunity to live a healthy, active, and meaningful life within a supported living model. This means the people we support live an active life, understand the benefits of making healthy choices and can contribute to the wider community on an equal basis through the opportunity to learn skills, develop pathways to employment and volunteering and engage in therapeutic interventions that respects traditional craft skills based on nature and the land around us. Enabling potential The Trust supports our people (our staff and those we support) to develop, grow and be heard. We aim to build confidence and create an environment that supports active engagement, building skills and providing opportunity through high-quality active support, learning and co-production. Social impact We believe that our people, resources and actions should make a positive contribution to society in relation to health, wellbeing, education, and the environment. This means we support and develop initiatives to challenge issues faced by vulnerable members of society which in turn, enable the people we support to achieve greater integration into the wider community beyond the reach of the walls of the charity. Our Guiding Principles What is important to us corporate strategy 2024-2027 • 9 Honouring the Past. Providing for our Present. Leading the Future. Our Vision Our Values, Guiding Principles, EDIB and ESG Safeguarding, Health & Safety A Brilliant Future Quality Support Live, Learn and Thrive Land Management and Sustainability Homes and Asset Potential Foundations Who we are Introduction A Leader of Green Care Honouring the Past. Providing for our Present. Leading the Future. Next >