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Community Matters fosters neighbourhood spirit

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Community Matters champions voluntary and community action at neighbourhood level, as a means of local people taking control of issues in their area and fostering community spirit.

Two member communities - Horndean in Hampshire and Bristol's Trinity Community Arts - have approached intergenerational work in very individual ways.

Horndean Community Association (HCA) undertook a joint drama project between a youth drama group and the local amateur theatrical society. The two groups worked collaboratively over a 12-month period to devise, write and perform a production in March. Over the same period, members of HCA Youth Drama group worked with the adult members of the association in constituting the group as a separate section within HCA, creating a youth-led body to take forward drama, responsible for their own budget and administration.

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