Find out more about the Woking Partnership

The objectives of the Woking Partnership are:

• To identify opportunities for community leadership in addressing the issues that affect the quality of life for everyone who lives in, works in or visits Woking.
• To develop and co-ordinate the Sustainable Community Strategy for Woking, ensuring that it reflects local needs and priorities and links/integrates with the Surrey Sustainable Community Strategy.
• To ensure that the Community Strategy is delivered and is effective as the basis for the Woking Local Development Framework and Housing Strategy
• To provide a framework for partners and appropriate bodies to plan and work together to address key issues and local problems.
• To maximise the use of existing resources across all sectors and maximise the use of available funding and resources from local, regional, national and European sources for the benefit of Woking.
• To contribute to the principles of Sustainable Development.
• To effectively engage with and listen to the community and communicate plans and achievements through involvement, consultation and communication.
• To discharge the statutory responsibility of the Borough's Crime & Disorder Reduction Partnership (The Safer Woking Partnership) and for that purpose:

- to act jointly to seek to reduce crime and disorder in the Borough

- to develop and co-ordinate the activities of the partners in implementing the Community Safety Strategy

- to assist and enable the responsible authorities to exercise their functions under section 17 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998

- to make decisions about priorities, programmes, initiatives and the allocation of resources