Our Organisation

Our vision

For everyone in the East of England to feel happier, stronger and understood.

Our purpose

Our purpose is to enhance emotional wellbeing, providing practical tools to overcome obstacles and fostering strong family and community connections.

Our values

Everything we do is guided by our values of collaboration, compassion and effectiveness. Whether you’re working with us as a family, a colleague, a funder, a volunteer or a supporter you’ll see us demonstrating these values every day in everything we do.

We’re collaborative

We work ‘with’, rather than ‘for’, families forging safe and trusting relationships.

We contribute to system change and build supportive partnerships, communities and networks across the East of England.

We value the strengths of our diversity, working together to achieve results and influence positive change.

We’re compassionate

We listen so that we understand the issues people face, offering them choices where we can and advocating on their behalf to inform wider system changes.

We treat everyone with consideration and respect, regardless of socio-economic background or culture – always supporting, recognising and celebrating their achievements.

We strive to make the places where we work feel safe, welcoming and accessible to all.

We’re effective

We’re evidence-based, using preventative and early intervention approaches to deliver enhanced outcomes for children, young people and their families, as well as greater cost-effectiveness to the public purse.

We constantly monitor and evaluate the impact and quality of what we do, seeking insights from the people we work with to inform and improve our provision.

We know our services are effective because the people we work with tell us that they feel happier, more able to voice their views, better understood, and can sustain these feelings long after we have finished working with them.

Ormiston Families Board Declaration of Interests – 5th December 2022