Horizon Plan

Our Horizon Plan is our Charity’s key strategic document, which sets out our vision for the coming three years.  

This plan was agreed by the Trustees in March 2025 ready to start in April 2025 and to take the organisation forward to the end of March 2028. 

Our last plan outlined a major transformation journey, it started with an examination of all aspects of the Trust and scheduled a substantial number of work streams, supported by a programme of continuous improvement. We managed to complete 98% of them and a number of additional elements. Recognising that transformative work takes time we wanted to create a strong enough foundation and benchmarking on which we could build. We have achieved this but we recognise that some of the work that we started needs to be concluded in the first year of this new plan. We may choose to revisit some elements to create a higher quality achievement. 

For the next period of our transformation we will continue our successes and focus on fewer elements of organisational change more deeply. 

We will deal with some of the long standing issues, critical to improve the infrastructure that allows us to function and take us further in building trust. We want to thank all those within our communities for their openness and preparedness to help. We will increase our focus on racial justice, as it is linked to social, environmental and economic injustice. This is intended to enhance pride and increase resilience. We now want to ensure the expectation of a deeper level of engagement is embedded in our culture and that programmes will develop community understanding, engagement and ‘community centring’ more fully. 

Assessing our Priorities

Our organisational strategy has been shaped by two broad-ranging pieces of research conducted in 2018 and 2019. 

Community Research

Guided by our senior management team and Charitable Purposes Committee, this research combined six strands of activity and nearly 50 interviews and workshops with residents, community organisations, businesses, and service providers. It highlighted the breadth of local services and the diversity of our communities, leading to the identification of six priority areas—Isolation, Places for Young People, Physical and Mental Wellbeing, Economic Participation, Arts and Culture, and Environment. You can read the full report consultation methodology and recommendations.

Westway Urban Design Strategy Report  

The work above ran in parallel with the creation of our Urban Design Strategy. This work was supported by the Mayor of London’s Good Growth Fund and addresses the fund’s themes of Empowering People, Making Better Places and Growing Prosperity. The strategy sets out the long-term vision for the Westway estate over the next 10 years to deliver physical improvements, renewal and better economic and other opportunities for local people.