Commitment 8

To develop your sustainability plan go through the actions for each commitment, figure out where you need to start, and make a plan!

Actions to get started: Identify things you are passionate about and ways that you can give back to your community individually or collectively, and get these underway.
✓	Identify at least one cause to support and get started.
✓	Include a proportion of donated products/services in your budget each year.
✓	Provide sponsorship information and guidelines on your website to make it easy to deal with sponsorship and donation requests, and to show which causes you support.
✓	Volunteer to help a community or environmental cause.
✓	Work with other businesses or groups on areas of most need in the community.
✓	Get actively involved to ensure that community is genuinely at the heart of destination planning.
✓	Talk about the great things you are doing to support the community.
✓	Introduce an internship, work experience programme or community open day.
✓	Promote local causes that need funding or volunteers.
Actions for doing more: Once you have the basics sorted, look at how you can provide structure to your community engagement activities to support mutual benefits, and measure your impact.
✓	Develop plans to provide structure to community engagement and focus effort on the most needed areas.
✓	Measure the impact of your community engagement activities and use this insight to deepen your contribution.