| Stakeholders | Individuals who have a vested interest in development, including community members; environmental, social, and community NGOs; natural resource, planning, and government officials; hotel owners, tour operators, guides, transportation providers, and representatives from other related services in the private sector. |
| Social Housing | Public housing or social housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is owned by a government authority, which may be central or local. |
| Social Exclusion | A shorthand term for what can happen when individuals or areas suffer from a combination of linked problems such as unemployment, poor skills, low incomes, poor housing, high crime environments, bad health and family breakdown. It can also have a wider meaning which encompasses the exclusion of people from the normal exchanges, practices and rights of society. |
| Social Cohesion | The process of developing a community of shared values, shared challenges and equal opportunities. |
| Social capital | The institutions, the relationships and values that govern interaction between people and contribute to economic and social development. |
| SME | Short for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises i.e. companies employing fewer than 250 employees. |
| SMART | Criteria for defining objectives - Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time bound. |
| Single Regeneration Budget (SRB) | The Single Regeneration Budget programme aims to enhance the employment prospects, education and skills of local people and to tackle the needs of communities in the most deprived areas. |
| Service delivery | Service delivery means supplying users with services needed or demanded. This can be done by government institutions and organisations, private companies, non-profit organisations or individual service providers. |
| Safer and Stronger Communities Fund (SSFC) | Integrated Home Office and ODPM funding for local partnerships, designed to reduce crime, tackle anti-social behaviour, improve public spaces and ensure that services are more responsive to local needs in deprived neighbourhoods. |
