0-Love Southampton 2022-2023

3. Vision and Purpose
Love Southampton exists to support and represent Christian churches and charitable organisations
working together to support those most in need in the Southampton area:
Through the Church, for the City.
We aim to achieve this as:
• A voice that helps represent the Christian community in Southampton
• A catalyst mobilising people to be involved in loving and serving the city
• A network connecting and empowering people to bring about social transformation
Our aim is for the Christian community in Southampton to be visibly engaged at the heart of
coordinated and effective social change in the city, and for every inhabitant to have a growing
understanding of the hope and positive impact that Christians, the Church, and Jesus can bring.
Our purpose is not to provide services ourselves, but to be a voice, catalyst and network that helps
co-ordinate and mobilise others, and provides a point of reference for the local authority and other
statutory organisations with the network of churches and Christian charities in Southampton.
We want to achieve this purpose through our networks and contacts, record this through our data
gathering and listening, and promote this through our media outputs and events.
We want to help the church bless more people collectively than each church can do individually.
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