About Us:

CCS is a long-standing Somerset Charity established in 1926. Its vision is for vibrant and viable communities with health, happy people and strong, sustainable businesses – the perfect place to live and work.

In hundreds of communities across Somerset (over 65%), our highly trained, professional Village and Community Agents work with individuals and communities to help bridge the gap between isolated, excluded, vulnerable and lonely people and services offered by statutory and voluntary organisations.

They live locally and support people of all ages with a wide variety of issues. The Village Agent work is underpinned by other CCS advisers, working with communities to help them shape public services by gathering evidence of needs and influencing service providers. They motivate communities to respond to local needs by working together to implement their own solutions (such as social groups or local car schemes) and by providing information and signposting to services and support provided by others.

The impact of the service has recently been independently evaluated and demonstrates huge savings – the full report can be found here http://somersetrcc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/FINAL-Agents-for-Change-050417.pdf and the short report can be founds here http://somersetrcc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/VA-short-report-final.pdf

We need your help so we can continue to offer and even expand our services! see http://somersetrcc.org.uk/ for all our projects.

Funds raised will benefit people in Taunton Deane and/or West Somerset. Thank you for your support and good luck!

Yours sincerely,

Keeley Rudd

CEO

Recent Supporters:

...