Living our Values
The way we behave - both as an organisation, and as individuals working within CARA - creates our organisational culture. This includes the way we provide our services, the way we support and appraise our workers, the way we interact with other agencies and the wider community, and the way we, as individuals within CARA, treat our clients and our colleagues.
CARA's core values are Feminism, Respect, Empowerment and Equity and we try to ensure there values underpin everything we do at CARA.
In 2025, through consultation with our staff team and our Board of Trustees, we created the document Living our Values. Living our Values seeks to name the organisational and individual behaviours that truly reflect CARA's core values. By identifying these behaviours, we aim to:
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Capture and instil a strong, positive and authentic culture that is rooted in CARA's values.
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Remind us that our values should influence everything we do at CARA.
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Support accountability, reflection and learning and create an environment where we own any mistakes and work together to move forwards from them.
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Provide a practical framework we can use to help us identify the right way to do the right thing - for our leadership and for us as individuals within CARA.
