Link4Growth is an organisation that provides a series of tools and services to facilitate and encourage communities to develop and flourish. We all belong to a number of communities (sometimes called networks) and these include our neighbourhoods, clubs and social groups, and businesses. Many of our communities are struggling for one reason or another.
Link4Growth helps us to get organised and connect with others thinking along the same community 'regeneration' lines . Link4Growth's infrastructure takes a lot of the hard work out of organising on the ground meetups and with social media profiles set up for localised Twitter, Facebook and Google it can be relatively quick to start making a real difference where we live.
Link4Growth commenced in its current form in 2012. There has been many false starts and blind alleys and lots of lessons learned, which has culminated in what it is today. Link4Growth begins life as an Association from 2017 with all subscribers over 14 months being automatic part owners in the organisation.
Link4Growth is a not for profit organisation. It's purpose is to provide a proven approach to sustainable community building (of all types), enabling people to 'find their own way', and to live happy lives.
The recognition that community has been breaking down for decades due to a variety of factors. We are more divided and separate that any time in our history and yet we have far better communication tools. We are more wealthy in terms of possessions and yet more people are unhappy. Stress, depression and other psychological conditions are at an all time high. Many not only feel helpless but hopeless too.
Something is not working, and many of our challenges of today are from the breakdown of community, meaningful connections and strong relationships. Link4Growth was set up to devise an approach to reversing these trends.
Link4Growth has developed a series of tools to assist people with good ideas and / or who are already doing good things in the community to raise their profile, do more of what they are doing, and encourage participation from others.
Local Online Presence : Pages and Profiles for social media [... more here]
Local Gatherings : A framework for hosting community events. [... more here]
Business Development Network (BDN) : A holistic approach to business support that enables us to create a Network of local businesses all sharing their knowledge, skills and expertise with each other in a "go to give" atmosphere, with the intention of enabling everyone to succeed in their business endeavour [... more here]
Time Tithing : For many of us volunteering is a challenge. If we could help by doing what we wanted, when we wanted, for as long as we wanted, there would be millions more contributing [... more here]
Skills Development : Link4Skills is "the people's university". One of the biggest challenges we face is getting the knowledge inside our heads out to those that need it. [... more here]
Real TV : Video is a powerful form of communication and the L4G.tv infrastructure provides a methodology to organise video via YouTube into relevant easy to access channels. [... more here]
Link4Growth Link4Business Link4Skills L4G.tv OMG (Mentoring) National Blog
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