Diversityworks will enhance its ability to facilitate opportunities for projects and partnerships that promote diversity and creativity as levers for healthy social change in 2012.At a Board meeting in late 2011, Trustees adopted a new, simpler strategic plan, emphasising working to the organisation's strengths, responding to opportunity and using humour and play as catalysts for change.
Trust Director Philip Patston, who presented the strategy in a simple, diagramatic form, said the plan reflected changing times. "We are a small, agile organisation working in an era of rapid change. I wanted a strategy that allowed us to move quickly when opportunities arise – and let go of things when they stop working.
"We now have a strategy which allows us to ask, 'Does this promote diversity and creativity as levers for healthy social change?' If it does, let's play with it and see where it goes."
The Trust's work programme in 2012 includes reviewing its peer support network, running a workshop on Image Theatre and working with the media to increase representation of diversity.
