About Us

Transforming Plymouth Together is a joint venture between Church Urban Fund and the Diocese of Exeter. Since April 2016 we have been working in Plymouth, with the support of all the churches in the city, as a direct church response to the 2014 Plymouth Fairness Commission Report.

Our Vision:

We will address issues related to poverty and inequality which matter to the people of Plymouth through informal community work (incarnational mission, intentional community), as well as more formal community development initiatives (the delivery of projects and services).

We want to nurture discipleship and an effective and distinctive Christian response to poverty and inequality.

We work together with churches, other faith groups, the voluntary sector, statutory bodies and businesses to help tackle poverty and inequality in Plymouth. We will carry forward the work of the Commission which identified these key issues:

• The need to strengthen local communities
• Individual and family wellbeing
• Discrimination of young people and young adults
• The escalating cost of living
• The need to strengthen the local economy
• Housing
• Implications of an ageing population

Our Objectives are to:

Be a vehicle to provide sustained infrastructure, supporting the mission of the Church and an emerging network of Christian activists to follow up the work of the Fairness Commission.

Help churches, parishes and Mission Communities to have an effective and more sustainable impact in tackling poverty and inequality in their community and across the city.

Nurture relevant connections between stakeholders and statutory services to provoke partnerships, maximise resources and develop effective dialogue and new action partnership.

As an organisation we work using the Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) approach. Please see the video below to see how it works in churches.