A short manifesto was developed in the autumn of 2009 to support our members in discussions with MPs, prospective MPs, local councillors and government agencies. It set out the key principles that underpin our ethos together with a series of "offers" that illustrate what these mean in practice and our hopes for what this should mean in return. Naturally some of our members are further advanced than others in delivering this agenda but, wherever they are on the journey, they have all signed up to the ethos.

The manifesto is available here. Some of the data in the introduction is now out of date but has been updated elsewhere on this site.