Commuity - What does it take?

[Spuzzana]

Community

What this means differs from person to person.

Community can extend from being part of a family or extended family, by developing relationships with other people who you have come to respect and love, to developing a sense of belonging with the people in your street, club, institution, business activity, village, town or any other of hundreds or thousands of situations.

So what makes a community or cause people to feel that they are part of a community?

Answers please on a postcard

Google definition: Using - Define: community, as the search term.

Noun
A group of people living together in one place, esp. one practising common ownership: "a community of nuns".
All the people living in a particular area or place: "local communities".
Synonyms
society - commune - public


The Chambers Dictionary:
A body of people in the same locality; the public in general; people having common rights, etc; a body of persons leading a common life or under socialistic or similar organisation; a group of people who have common interests, characteristics or culture; a monastic body; any group of plants growing together under natural conditions and forming a recognisable sort of vegetation; a common possession of enjoyment; agreement; communion; commonness; (archaic) adj of, for or by a local community.

From the definitions above we can see that community is a little on the abstract side. So we as individuals have to make up our own minds what community means to us and what part in community we want to play, or indeed be part of a community.

So what makes a community and what does a community need to function as a community. Probably more importantly, what does a community need to have in place in order to be resilient when hard times strike?

These are only sketchy thoughts at the moment.

Thoughts are that a community needs certain skills as a starting point.

They can be categorised in basic terms as:

Builders
Carers
Workers
Defenders

Where each person fits in would be dependant on their skills and abilities.

Once this has been defined, the next step is understanding what would a community require so that it is able to hold its own in the face of uncertainty.

Lets see where we go from this starting point.

Kind regards

Spuzz