Community Catalysts is a social enterprise that creates opportunities for people to thrive in healthy, caring communities.  

Our vision, mission and values

Our vision is a good life for everyone. 

Our mission is to deliver radical and impactful change through creative and practical solutions that help people thrive. 

We believe in the strengths of people and communities. Our values underpin everything that we do. 

Our purpose

People who draw on care and support tell us that they find it difficult to live a life that works for them. Traditional care and support options, while necessary, are limited and stretched. The evidence also tells us that:

• The demand for health and care services is growing exponentially across all communities.
• Systems for meeting need are overwhelmed and on an unsustainable course.
• Health inequalities between different groups of people and places are increasing.

Preventive, community-based support is not prioritised enough as part of the solution.

That’s where we can help.

Our strategic aims and priorities

1. Create choice and control for people – we will ensure that people can choose from diverse and flexible care and support that is personalised – support that works for them.
2. Put people’s strengths and talents first – we will support the creation of a world where people can use their own skills and talents to achieve their vision of a good life. 
3. Actively listen to people’s voices – we will work with public sector bodies and organisations to include the voices of people in shaping service design and delivery.
4. Innovate for a positive future – we will help policy makers, public sector bodies and organisations to create an environment that supports and encourages innovative practice and solutions. 

Programmes of work

In 2025-26 we aim to achieve our strategic priorities through four programmes of work:

Communities Care

Helping more people in local communities to use their gifts and talents to enable people who need care or support to live the life they want by:

• Delivering high quality community enterprise programmes.
• Provide a legacy offer of support for areas completing a community enterprise programme.

People Can

Helping people to draw on their own gifts and strengths as well as those of their community to achieve their vision of a good life by:

• Growing, supporting and strengthening the Local Area Coordination Network; embedding the model and focusing on enduring legacy.
• Providing support to the research programme for Family and Group Conferencing for Adults and develop a business model to increase its profile.

Innovators Learn

Helping policy makers and the public sector to create an environment that supports and encourages innovation in the design and delivery of solutions by:

• Continuing to deliver our New Social Leaders programme to emerging leaders in the social sector.
• Working with organisations and system leaders to enable more creativity through our new ‘Thinking outside the Box’ offer.

Development and Innovation

Remaining agile and creative, seeking out and exploring new opportunities; learning and innovating to create new ideas that we can share by:

• Understanding the potential of technology in care and support, while keeping relationships at the heart of our ambitions.
• Collaborating with sector colleagues to develop new opportunities thinking on the optimal local adult social care ecosystem.