Community spirit

Community spirit is associated with voluntary work, favours and gestures of goodwill by residents and local businesses.

According to Durkheim, Collective effervescence indicates the intensity of group bonds through communal gatherings such as religious meetings.

These bonds people create within a group ‘generate a kind of electricity that quickly transports them to an extraordinary degree of exaltation’.

[2] Meaning, when people come together in such near proximity and share the sense of group, it generates a high degree of happiness.

Standing groups such as a neighbourhood watch or Women's Institute may also help create community spirit.

[8] The community's biweekly newspaper publishes a variety of columns, including articles on education,[9] fundraisers[10] and multiculturalism.