Our vision is for all local people to live active, healthy and fulfilled lives in a friendly and sustainable neighbourhood. Our mission is to create a better future for local people.
We do this by providing accessible services that provide practical help and encourage people’s resilience and capacity and places to meet one another, socialise and connect as a community.
Commonside delivers activities directly and facilitates delivery with and by trusted partners, usually from its base in New Horizon Centre.
Our key aims are to reduce the immediate impact of poverty on people and communities; provide people with the capacity to avoid future crises and so improve the long-term quality of their own lives, and; improve and sustain the health and wellbeing of local people, including addressing social isolation.
We work mainly in Pollards Hill, Longthornton and Figge's Marsh wards but people in other parts of Mitcham and in North Croydon use our services.