Harpenden Trust Values - 3: Creativity and Commitment

The Harpenden Trust is delighted to reveal the new Trust values. These values reflect our beliefs, define our culture and standards and set out what we stand for.

In defining US, we asked ourselves –

What does the Harpenden Trust mean to us?

  • What guides the decisions we make?
  • What one thing do we want to be remembered for?
  • Why do volunteers stay with us?

Our values guide our thinking and our actions, and help us to truly define what is important, beautiful and worthwhile in the work of the Harpenden Trust. Going forward, these values will be embedded even more firmly in everything we do as well as in our organisational processes. We are proud to share them with you, continuing today with Value 3:

Creativity and Commitment

With input and ideas from everyone, we try to find a way to solve the (often unusual) issues we are presented with.

A young client with no incentive or reason to leave the house was partnered with a dog-owning volunteer, giving them both a reason to go for a walk and also something to chat about. This worked beautifully. The young client loved the dog so much that he subsequently purchased his own dog, and has now been partnered with a young 6th form student volunteer to walk with.

We have also been creative in our thinking and planning of our new premises; using artwork on the walls from St Georges GCSE students, tables and chairs from a café and a pub closing down (all with a little tweaking from handy volunteers of course!)

Our creativity has provided a welcoming, warm social space that everyone delights in coming to, being in, and being part of.

As for commitment, our volunteers show commitment in abundance to their roles, our clients and the Trust as a whole. Without their commitment, the Trust would not be the wonderful organisation that it is today.

11 November 2023

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