Community cohesion is a current buzz phrase. What makes a good community. I would use community to mean a smallish area with some cohesion. For Here Our Prayer we took the community of Sydenham and Forest Hill as the postcodes of SE26 and SE23, a fairly arbitrary criteria but they merge into each other and people move between them frequently for shopping, enteratinment and travel. Society I would take to mean Great Britain plc or possibly England plc is you accept that there are significant difference between England and Wales and Scotland.

I will kick off with a suggestion. When I go inot schools I am very impressed with the work on the walls. the mission statements etc. but I hate having to buzz at agtes to be let in. It used to be possible to just walk into a school.

A good community would be one where schools would be open.