Posted on: September 4, 2019
Essex Community Foundation have published a summary of their new five-year strategic plan.
The plan aims to help them to grow as an organisation and develop new programmes of work. It also hopes to enable them to further improve their understanding of the wide range of issues affecting local communities and the support needed by the voluntary sector to tackle those issues.
You can read the plan here.
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