bath & wells: mission
Social Responsibility Group
WHAT DOES SOCIAL RESPONSIBILTY MEAN?
RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE CREATED WORLD
Environment
Understanding the issues
- the physical facts
- the consequences for people
- our personal responsibilities
Campaigning for changes in national and international policies
Making our own lifestyle less damaging to the environment
Care of God's creatures
Campaigning against cruelty to animals, wild, domestic and agricultural
RESPONSIBILITY FOR ALL PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
Unfair distribution of world resources
Debt relief
Better response to natural disasters
Helping poorer countries with their fight against major epidemics (e.g. AIDS Malaria)
Campaigning for policies that will help people in all countries to access the basic needs that we take for granted; clean water, shelter, education, health care, adequate food.
Promoting of more ethical government throughout the world
Promoting the adoption of policies that will not discriminate against the less fortunate (e.g. EU trade policies)
Supporting campaigns against injustice (e.g. Amnesty International)
RESPONSIBILITY FOR OUR COMMON LIFE AT NATIONAL OR LOCAL GOVERNMENT LEVEL
Housing and homelessness
Affordable housing
Homelessness
Workplace issues and unemployment
Unemployment
Helping the long term unemployed back into work
Fair treatment of employees
Justice
Prisoners
Work with young offenders
Probation
Miscarriages of justice
RESPONSIBILTY FOR HELPING INDIVIDUALS TO REACH THEIR FULL POTENTIAL
Rural and urban poverty
Understanding hidden poverty
Supporting community initiatives that will increase community capacity
Campaigning for changes that will lift people out of poverty
Providing help with budgeting
Supporting family life
Promoting parenting skills
Provision of child care
Helping families in difficulties
Removing the barriers to participation
Low educational achievement
Disability
- deafness
- blindness
- limited mobility
- mental illness
- learning difficulties
RESPONSIBILITY FOR OUR OWN ACTIONS
Knowing the facts about our own communities
Are our opinions based on fact?
Prejudice against racial minorities and asylum seekers
Racial and cultural differences
Integration versus Multiculturalism
Issues relating to immigration
Asylum seekers
Prejudice against those who look or act differently
People with disfigurement
People whose mental illness leads to obvious behavioural changes
People whose physical condition leads to different behaviour
|
