Inclusive Kingston: Draft Commitments

Closed 6 Jul 2025

Opened 14 May 2025

Contact

Strategy and Partnerships Team

(Kingston Council)

020 8547 5000

strategy@kingston.gov.uk

Results updated 9 Oct 2025

Thank you to everyone who took part and shared their experiences. Your feedback is helping us better understand the diverse perspectives and needs across our communities and identify the key priorities for our new Inclusive Kingston strategy.

Based on what you told us in phase one, we drafted four proposed commitments and, in phase two, asked whether these reflect your experiences and views on inclusion and diversity in the borough.

We are now reviewing all the feedback received. Where needed, we will revise the commitments, develop an action plan, and finalise the strategy — which will be published later this year.

Thank you for helping shape a more inclusive Kingston for everyone.

Overview

Later this year we will publish a new Inclusive Kingston strategy that will set out our commitments for the next 4 years. 

We are pleased to share the draft commitments with you now which have been written using the insights that you shared with us last autumn alongside lots of research and best practice. 

We are deeply committed to working together to ensure that our borough is accessible, safe and a place where every voice is valued and celebrated.  

If you live, work or study in the borough, we would love to hear your views and thank you in advance for your time and consideration.

Please take a look at the three draft commitments below:

Draft Commitment 1

We are committed to deeply understanding the needs and experiences of our communities and working together to make change.

We will do this by:

  • Collaborating to collect, analyse, share and use data across the council and with partners
  • Being led by our community and partners to understand unmet needs and to meaningfully engage and communicate
  • Implement change using insights from complaints, compliments and member enquiries

Draft Commitment 2

We are committed to tailoring our approaches to meet the needs and address gaps for all our communities

We will do this by:

  • Thinking creatively and utilising new tools to overcome challenges that enable access to services when they are needed 
  • Evidencing how our services and policies identify need and reduce inequality 
  • Working closely with our partners to share insights, meet community needs and build resilience
  • Focusing on tackling poverty and socio-economic inequality in the borough

Draft Commitment 3

We are committed to being a proudly diverse borough which is accessible and safe

We will do this by:

  • Focusing on community cohesion alongside our partners to bring communities together, tackling discrimination, harassment and hate crime 
  • Ensuring accessibility and community needs are key priorities when designing and delivering our physical and digital infrastructure
  • Coming together to celebrate communities, heritage and achievements

 

Areas

  • All Areas

Audiences

  • Anyone from any background

Interests

  • Adult education
  • Children & young people
  • Community safety
  • Early years
  • Economic Development and Tourism
  • Health and wellbeing
  • Housing
  • Neighbourhoods
  • Participation and Engagement
  • Primary schools
  • Secondary schools
  • Sixth Form/FE colleges
  • University
  • Voluntary, Community, Faith Sector
  • Volunteering