Community Partners

New Vic Borderlines, Newcastle-under-Lyme  is a charity that engages with the community and a range of partners, creating positive solutions, challenging negative behaviours, attitudes and actions and developing new and aspirational futures. Sue Moffat, its founding director, has received many national awards including two Global Ethics Awards, a prestigious Clarion Award and a national British Crime Concern award for reducing offending behaviour.  New Vic Borderlines that communities can create dynamic and positive relationships, imaginative and generous solutions and take on roles and responsibilities.  Their recent work with the Home Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office, brought about a touring play with workshops called ‘All Our Daughters?’ about forced marriage, reaching over 8000 beneficiaries and described by the Chief Crown Prosecutor Nazir Afzal as ‘Saving Lives’.

The Mondo Challenge Foundation, a charity focusing on education and livelihood development within deprived communities, will bring their expertise to explore the processes and resource options for capturing and interpreting needs and resilient community solutions.  Such communities will become more self-reliant, as they can learn to identify and solve problems themselves.

The Glass-House Community Led Design is a national charity that focuses on enabling community-led design through a more inclusive and participatory process which helps communities achieve their needs and aspirations.  They have been collaborating with academia in recent years to gain a better understanding of communal needs and improve the ways in which they engage with communities.