Welcome to the St Albans and District Local Strategic Partnership website
The St Albans and District Local Strategic Partnership (LSP) is a group of key local public, private, voluntary and community sector organisations working together to improve the quality of life for everyone in the District.
Every local authority area in England has to have a Local Strategic Partnership. The role of the LSP is to plan and deliver on the priorities set out in the area’s Community Strategy – the blueprint for the future development of the area they serve.
We have called our Community Strategy - ‘Shaping our District together for 2021’- because it is only by working together that we can achieve local people's vision for the future of the District.
The development of this strategy is community led - residents and local organisations were involved inpreparing the original strategy and we review it with them on a regular basis to ensure it continues to reflect their needs and aspirations.
Using this site will enable you to check on progress against the strategy, see who is involved in delivery of the priorities and also get involved yourself. We hope that you will play a part in helping to shape your District and your future and we welcome your feedback on how well we are doing, either through this website, by contacting us directly, through our partners or by attending our Annual Community Conference.
In Focus
Targeting Change Fund
We have an updated
Community Strategy ‘Shaping our District together for 2021’ which sets the vision and priorities for the District and we have just had our Annual Community Conference helping us to develop our thoughts and ideas for addressing the issues raised in that strategy. The next step is turning these ideas into actions and to bring about change where change is needed. To assist with this process, the LSP is pleased to launch the Targeting Change Fund – a fund that will enable the LSP to support partners to develop great ideas for change and turn them into action. Applications are invited for projects which will help deliver our strategy (see criteria in the guidance notes) and bids can be made for funds between £2,000 and £10,000. Please see our
Targeting Change Fund page for full details and criteria.
Annual Community Conference – another successful event
Aiming High - caring for our future
Our 2009 community conference was a great success with 130 delegates from organisations and groups across the District taking part in a challenging day considering how we can all work together to make our aspirations for the District a reality.
Our inspirational speakers motivated us to think about the needs and contribution of young people and with the help of representatives from the local Youth Councils that theme continued into the afternoon’s workshop sessions.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Andrew Cawthorpe, Regional Partnership Manager for the Prince's Trust, the UK's leading youth charity and Tarkan Ahmet, Enterprise Youth Ambassador.
Please see our Annual Community Conference page for more detail.