01/10/2026
MARK FOSTER | MISSION & PURPOSE
👥️Meet Mark Foster
Project Lead at Ecosystem Coldharbour.
Mark works across the partnership, helping connect community organisations, local people and wider services around a shared goal: reducing violence and supporting longer-term change for young people and the wider community.
🎯 As we begin sharing Partnership in Practice here on Instagram, our first theme is
Mission & Purpose.
We asked our partners:
••• What is the mission of Ecosystem Coldharbour?
••• And what makes our approach different from more traditional services and interventions?
Mark is the first voice in this conversation.
In his response, he speaks about the importance of a whole-community approach, listening to people, building local capacity and recognising that lasting change has to come from within the community itself.
💬 “True change can only come from communities.”
Over the coming posts, we’ll hear how other Ecosystem Coldharbour partners answer the same question - each bringing their own experience and perspective.
🔗 For fuller interview content and more from Partnership in Practice, follow
Ecosystem Coldharbour on LinkedIn and visit:
ecosystemcoldharbour.org.