COMMUNITY,
HARMONY AND SPIRIT
BEST PRACTICE:
Residential communities are not about buildings – they’re about people, about
communities. The houses are just where the people live. The community is about how
they live.
Inform
Sustain
Listen
Create
Ways to promote community spirit
React
respective jobs, or volunteers provide cards and personal
calls, transportation for medical appointments and rides
To promote community spirit in your community, try one of to the airport, meals for families with an illness or death in
these activities: the family, loan items of medical equipment such as canes
• • Support local charities and schools. Sharing your time, and crutches, loan items such as cribs and high chairs
talents, and financial resources as individuals, small groups, for grandparents with visiting grandchildren, handyman
and as a corporate entity is a true reflection of community services for small jobs, and an extensive resource of those
spirit; giving back to the greater community has many willing to discuss their medical experiences with those facing
positive knock-on effects. these challenges. Volunteers coordinate each major service
under an elected programme director.
• • Print a community T-shirt. Not only will this increase
community spirit, but it also generates additional revenue
for the association and serves as a marketing tool.
• • Hold a blanket and clothing collection for less privileged
communities in preparation for the winter months.
• • Hold a neighbourhood swim-a-thon or other fun and
challenging event.
• • Build and install park benches along walking trails and
ponds. Find the craftsmen in your community and have them
build community park benches with materials provided by
• • Create a neighbourhood assistance programme. Residents the association. This saves money and is a great community
volunteer to provide neighbours with all types of assistance spirit project both for the volunteers and for the enjoyment
and a monthly coordinator assigns volunteers to their of the residents.
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