The Southend Community-in-Harmony Partnership became a registered charity, in its own right, in March 2008 after six successful years of awareness building, campaigning and fund raising to help promote and create an inclusive and harmonious community.

We annually organise an open air event where diverse community groups can come together and have fun celebrating everything that is valued and worthwhile within the community of Southend. Click here for details of our next event in June.

In April 2009 we completed a research project profiling the needs of the new ethnic minority communities and other socially disadvantaged groups that live in our town, and how we can begin to meet those needs. This was done with an awarded granted from "Awards for All". You can download our final report on "Missing Communities" for the details of our research.

The work is ongoing and we resumed in earnest in April 2010, thanks to a furhter grant from "Faith in Action" and focused on addressing some of the gaps we found. Recommendation update produced March 2010 provides an update of where we were in addressing the recommendations from that report.

Reports on Faith Communities, African Communities and Bullwood Hall Prison are now available to SCHP members on request.

Throughout the year we organise smaller events to bring our community together. Please look at our EVENTS page to see what is currently being arranged.

Read our Story So Far for more details about our charity and how you can get involved. However, the aims of our Partnership are:

• to celebrate the diversity, culture and heritage of the local community
• to promote a greater understanding and tolerance within the community
• to break down barriers of ignorance and misunderstanding and
• to encourage and facilitate partnership working among community groups for their mutual benefit

We look forward to seeing you at one of our events!