Do you want to do something more… for yourself, your group, and/or for your Community?
If so, being part of a self-reliant group can help you decide what and how. Find out how joining a group brings friendship, purpose, skills, confidence, and a laugh! And how you can use your ideas and weekly savings to build your own Group Fund.
What is a Self-Reliant Group?
A Self-Reliant Group (or SRG for short) is a peer-group: people who live in the same neighbourhood, have things in common, or who already meet at another club or support group.
Between four and twelve people in a group all commit together to:
meet weekly
save together (for example 20p or £1 per member per week)
share their ideas, ambitions and skills
make collective decisions and rotate roles
Self-Reliant Groups grow their own confidence and their own Group Fund. Some lend to each other, others buy materials or share with their community, some build businesses – as a group, or around one of their members. Others simply, and fundamentally, gain in confidence, friendship and financial power by being there for each other, every week.
S
Saving, sharing, supporting
R
Rotating roles at regular meetings
G
Growing a self-reliant group
A pre-enterprise support group which grows ideas
The journey to self-reliance
Group Gatherings
With the help of Trust Leeds, a small group of 4-12 people gets together and agrees to meet regularly
1 Small Savings
Save a little bit each week together
2 Share Skills
Share skills, learn from each other, and make decisions together.
3 Grow Confidence
Grow in confidence, support each other, and share the leadership so everyone gets a chance.
4 Create Projects
Using their own ideas and savings, and with the support of Trust Leeds, they can create projects, an enterprise or business
5 Self-Reliant
They are now Self-Reliant (No need for grants or funding)
6 Group Benefit
The group works together for the benefit of themselves and their community
7 Profit & Success
A group that is patient, dedicated and determined = Profit & Success
Read inspiring examples about what Trust Leeds’ community Self-Reliant Groups have done
If you want to find out more, we’d love to hear from you and tell you more about how we support Self-Reliant Groups to start and thrive.
Trust Leeds also offers training and support to other charities and community development organisations who want to bring the benefit of the global Self-Reliant Group model to their local communities. For more information, please contact Liza Kellett on 07957 150018
