Wanting to start or grow a Compassionate Community where you live? Here are some guides and toolkits from around the world to help you.
Compassionate Bunbury Charter and Toolkit | South West Compassionate Communities Network | 2022
This is an example of a Compassionate City Charter. It is accompanied by a Toolkit which gives ideas on practical actions people can undertake individually and collectively.
Building Compassionate Communities in Australia: Tools for a community-led approach to end-of-life care | The Groundswell Project | 2020
This toolkit shares community insights and experiences from nine communities in Australia and offers ideas and inspiration for a community-led approach to the experience of end of life.
Scottish Compassionate Communities Toolkit | Good Life Good Death Good Grief | 2019
A website hosting a collection of resources providing ideas and information for anyone wishing to make their community a more supportive place for people dying, caring or grieving.
Compassionate Community Startup Toolkit | Pallium, Canada | 2018
The Compassionate Community Startup Toolkit provides information, resources and templates to launch a Compassionate Community.
A Road Less Lonely | Good Life Good Death Good Grief and Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care | Scotland | 2018
This report explores options relating to practical next steps which could be taken on a national or community level to promote more open and supportive attitudes and behaviours relating to death, dying and bereavement.
Each community is prepared to help | The UK National Council for Palliative Care | 2016
This resource looks at how a public health approach to end of life care can be developed in a range of settings from hospitals and primary care to government health authorities.