Vision

Our vision places Sunlight Development Trust at the heart of Medway, providing a sustainable, secure, culturally diverse ‘community anchor’, involving and engaging community members and enhancing quality of life.

Mission

Our Mission is to reduce social isolation in the community by promoting, enabling, embracing and facilitating inclusive activities and making a positive difference to people’s lives through the provision of education, training, employment, welfare, health, social, cultural and recreational activities.

Values

We work alongside communities to create positive, sustainable change guided by important principles:

• Inclusivity – ensuring anyone who wants to, can participate by being aware and considerate of the emotional, cultural and physical barriers that some people experience and actively setting about dismantling those barriers.
• Diversity – recognising that difference is a positive thing and that diversity does not just mean ethnicity, gender, age or disability.
• Trust – building trust with our partners and those who use our services is essential for even greater results. We do our utmost to do what we have said we will do and within the timetable agreed.
• Transparency – Being honest and open about our strengths and our weaknesses, our policies, our culture and our direction.
• Valued – Everyone should be made to feel welcome and valued. Nobody should be treated unfairly. We can all expect the same courtesy, dignity, respect and high standard of customer service.
• Community owned – 100% of the board of trustees are local volunteers ensuring the Sunlight Development Trust retains its focus on benefiting those communities with the greatest disadvantage or need.
• Active participation – services work best when they are delivered and owned by the people who use them. We “do with” rather than “do to”. That’s why 100% of staff and volunteers live in Kent with 80% in Medway and why we continue to attract volunteers to deliver innovative services, with only limited support from the trust.
• Community development – we work to the National Occupational Standards of Community Development – an evidence-based process that delivers high quality outcomes and unprecedented new opportunities for anyone who chooses to participate, whatever one’s individual ability or talent.
• Enterprise – an enterprising culture can help create opportunities that are both sustainable and innovative.
• Environment – build awareness and action to reduce, reuse and recycle waste. Promote conservation of wildlife and take steps to reduce pollution, especially CO2.