Bolton's Vision and Values
Bolton is a diverse borough, where people from many different backgrounds and cultures live, work and play. We aim to respect and promote the diverse nature of the borough, supporting community relations, ensuring that our services are appropriate and accessible for everyone, and increasing opportunities for all.
Our Vision: Bolton 2040
Our Bolton 2040 Borough Plan is a visionary document, launched in 2026, providing a roadmap for transforming our community into a place where everyone can thrive. The Vision is built around six missions that will guide our collective efforts, with priorities that are comprehensive, concrete, and geared toward taking real action.
- Family-friendly, where every child matters
- Thriving, investment-ready with a growing economy
- Inclusive, with access to culture, leisure and visitor opportunities
- Supportive, empowering and where people feel a sense of belonging
- Safe and protected, with confident, cohesive communities
- Healthy, where our population live well for longer
Our Values and Behaviours:
The values and Behaviours of an organisation are those key principles by which people are expected to work day-to-day. They’re our culture and help define what is expected of each, and every one of us.
We worked with our staff to develop values and behaviours for the council. Staff at all levels of the authority came up with these ideas and we’ve focused on the five more important ones. More than 150 staff members were involved in this process, as well as union representatives. To explore our Values and Behavious framework further, please visit our webpage.
The Values:
- Accountability: take responsibility for actions, stand by decisions…
- Determination: don’t give up, remain positive and open to new ideas…
- Making a difference: work to a high standard, provide a quality service, keep it simple…
- Working together: share knowledge, support, collaborate for better outcomes…
- Honesty and respect: be truthful, open, fair, treat others how you want to be treated…
- We will be one council, building and effective and dynamic organisation.
All of these Values contribute to our work in reducing discrimination, promoting opportunities and fostering good relations, both internally and across the borough. More specifically our Honesty and Respect value includes a clear commitment to supporting diversity and respecting individual differences, treating people fairly and in the way they would like to be treated. This is an expected behaviour of each and every council employee.