About Us

Our Strategic Vision

·    A dynamic network, engaging with people and communities in the Tavistock and surrounding areas, working towards strengthening the local economy, enhancing its unique environment, heritage and diverse culture, improving the safety, health and well being of its people and ensuring there is a sustainable and vibrant future for everyone.

In realising our vision the outcomes will include...

·    A credible and accessible network involving all groups, individuals and communities within the Tavistock and surrounding areas who share the vision of the Tavi Network.

·    A network with the capacity to influence decisions and actions of other organizations and providers of services and benefits to Tavistock and the surrounding area.

·    A network which supports projects and initiatives through it’s activities and collective resources.

·    Sustainable and vibrant future for all where, through the understanding and management of threats and opportunities, our community is secure and able to thrive.

Aims & Values

·    To support and promote sustainable economic, environmental and social development in the Tavistock & Villages (TaVi) Community.

·    To work in an atmosphere of partnership, co-operation and consultation with individuals and the public, private, third and voluntary sector organisations with similar aims and objectives.

·    To be inclusive, independent and community-led.

Objectives

Engagement	·    To provide opportunities for individuals and representatives from the public, private, third and voluntary sectors to come together to: o      inform, educate and consult; o      engage, empower and network; o      communicate, learn and disseminate.
Strategy	·    To maintain, update and communicate the ‘TaVi Sustainable Development Strategy’.
Representation	·    To represent the TaVi Community and the ‘TaVi Sustainable Development Strategy’ at the South Hams District and West Devon Borough Councils’ Joint Local Strategic Partnership and other similar bodies.      ·    To actively and transparently support and influence sustainable community development of public, private, third and voluntary sector organisations operating in and around the TaVi Community.
Delivery	·    To either initiate, support, influence, develop or deliver specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound (SMART) projects responding to evidence-based need and opportunity identified through the ‘TaVi Sustainable Development Strategy’.   ·    To bid for external funding for direct and indirect project delivery.

Area of benefit

The Tavistock & Villages (TaVi) Community has the town of Tavistock at its heart and spans twenty-two parishes and over 30 villages which look to Tavistock as their market town.

The area is defined more by its economic, environmental and social connections to Tavistock as a market town than by physical or administrative boundaries.