About Our Group
Status
Camelot Connect is a humanitarian mutual support group founded as an unincorporated association.
Motto
“In serving one another we become free”
Mission Statement
“We are a caring and compassionate humanitarian mutual support group whose members take responsibility for themselves and each other in all areas of life whilst seeking to set an example of a good way of life for all”
Aim
We want our members and people in general to be confident in their own skills, knowledge, and beliefs so that we can live independently of unacceptable conditions imposed by others. For example, we want health, social care, and food to be provided humanely and ethically for everybody involved.
Goals
We set goals together on a periodic basis to help us achieve our overall aim.
We are action orientated and share tasks and responsibilities amongst ourselves to help achieve our goals.
Values
- Moral Conscience: constant evaluation of whether our actions, and those of others, are right or wrong, good or bad.
- Moral Courage: when we identify a wrong or bad course of action we do not hesitate to challenge it, even if doing so might make life difficult for us in the short term.
- Servant Leadership: the aim of a servant leader is to make themselves redundant because they have helped empower others to master themselves.
- Personal contact rather than "remote contact".
- Lifelong Learning and Development.
- Freedom of Choice
- Honourable Behaviour
- Self Reliance
- Independence
- Privacy
- Autonomy
Principles
- We are non-political and non-religious however we accept members of all faiths or none and members of all political persuasions or none.
- We may, as a group, choose to engage with political representatives and processes in support of our goals and aim however we are not a party political organisation.
- We support all religious faith and spiritual belief as part of our general aim for people to be confident in their own beliefs.
- We consider the individual to be the smallest minority and that the rights of the individual are supreme even, and especially, in times of perceived emergency or crisis. This a core principle we abide by to avoid violations of human rights or inhumane treatment in general. If the right of individuals to assert themselves is maintained then inhumane treatment cannot occur in the name of the collective.
- We prioritise local resilience and sustainability.
Remit
To connect people with shared values and principles in our catchment area and to network beyond our catchment area with groups who share or align with our values. We are building a shared knowledgebase of critically appraised resources for members in our online forum.
Home Sweet Home
Covering South East Somerset and North West Dorset, we promote self determination and freedom of choice for our members and wider community.
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