about us all about Community Links
Who We Are
A powerful and successful community group delivering innovative and exciting projects in east London.
Gordon Brown, Prime Minister
Community Links helps thousands of children, teenagers, adults and older people in deprived neighbourhoods of east London every year. Many face difficult challenges. They may be struggling to make ends meet or have left an abusive family life. Some suffer from the consequences of being born into poverty – poor health, inadequate housing, loneliness and isolation. Others may just need a little support to make life a little easier. We run a network of over 60 community projects that empower individuals and communities to help them build their own ladder out of poverty - and towards a brighter future. With our record of success over 30 years, our national work shares the local lessons learned locally across the country to widen the impact of our projects and generate lasting social change.
We do it together
80% of our staff and volunteers live locally, many are former users of our services. Our supporters give time, skills and financial resources to make it all possible
Our Vision, Purpose and Mission
Our Vision
To be champions of social change
Our Purpose
To tackle the causes and consequences of social exclusion by developing and running excellent practical activities in east London and by sharing the local experience with practitioners and policy makers nationwide.
Our Mission Statement
‘To generate change. To tackle causes not symptoms, find solutions not palliatives. To recognise that we need to give as well as to receive and to appreciate that those who experience a problem understand it best. To act local but think global, teach but never stop learning. To distinguish between the diversity that enriches society and the inequalities that diminish it. To grow – but all to build a network not an empire. To be driven by dreams, judged on delivery. To never do things for people but to guide and support, to train and enable, to simply inspire’.