SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals

The KeepConnected website by Lancaster City Council offers opportunities to get involved with your local community and have your voice heard on local issues. Their Community Conversations Group, which has representation from the local NHS, Lancaster City Council, Lancaster CVS and also the Faith Sector, host regular conversations on a range of issues including health and wellbeing, homelessness, prosperity and the environment which inform local plans.

The Lancaster Ethical Small Traders Association (ESTA) are a network of small traders working for a sustainable local economy in the Lancaster area. ESTA provides local social entrepeneurs with the opportunity to work together on developing products and services to ‘develop the prosperity and common good of the wider community’. Through joining, members are committing to improving the way their business affects environmental sustainability, community well-being and the fevelopment of everyone, values which ESTA promote as business-enhancing rather than an additional burden.

Anchor institutions are public sector organisations with sizable assets and resources, meaning they can have a significant positive impact on the local communities they serve. The Morecambe Bay Anchor Collaborative Charter supports these institutions across the region to make a difference to local people by widening access to decent work (SDG 8), using buildings and spaces to support communities (SDG 11), reducing environmental impact (SDG 13), working closely with local partners (SDG 17), and reducing inequalities (SDG 10).