Tribe is a community platform that connects people, places and things so that everyone, at every age and stage in life, can secure the support, relationships and opportunities needed to live safe and well in the place they call home. The mission of the Tribe Project is to increase social action, improving the quality of life for millions of people. Through the use of applied technology Tribe aims to reduce pressure on public services to address the care challenges across the UK.
It is a not-for-profit consortium led by Carers UK, Shared Lives Plus and Bronze Labs. Tribe works with local councils, Integrated Care Boards and voluntary and community groups to grow, map and connect diverse community capacity. Tribe’s mission is to ensure that everyone, everywhere can find the support and opportunities for themselves or people they care about to live safe and well in the place they call home.
Recognising Tribe’s impact and potential, the Department for Health and Social Care recently highlighted their work in its invitation for councils to bid for funding under the Accelerating Reform innovation priorities.
Working alongside people who draw on support, unpaid carers and people and organisations offering support in local areas, Tribe brings the power of digital technology, including AI, to help promote everyone’s health and wellbeing.
They do this in three key ways:
Tribe creates circles of mutual support. Through doing so they are helping to strengthen the resilience of local communities to care about and support one another, to stay safe and well, and to avoid the crises that are placing so much avoidable pressure on our councils and the NHS.
