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Below are all the latest news stories from Community Links. You can also access our latest press releases or view the latest newsletter, Linking Up.
For media enquiries, please contact Richard McKeever, 020 7473 9671. Alternatively, you can find more information about Community Links through our latest Annual Review.
The East London Bond is open for business
The East London Bond is an innovative campaign to spark renewal in East London. By investing in the Bond, you can help to transform some of the most deprived communities in the UK, help the work of Community Links – and receive all your money back in five years’ time. The East London Bond is offered by Citylife, a national charitable organisation that offers Charitable Bonds as a unique way to raise funds for social causes. The… Read more.
Chain Reaction Nov 12, 2009
The Chain Reaction event on November 12th is about connecting people together from around the world to work together on new ideas for social change. Chain Reaction is about one talent, experience or idea unlocking another, creating massive energy in a chain. Our individual actions multiplied by millions of others are a driving force for change. If our individual actions are reflected by those of organisations and businesses, and supported by governments, then, together, we have the power to change… Read more.
Annual Review 2009: Overcoming Challenges
Our Annual Review for 2009 reports on 12 months work of taking our extensive services to where they are most needed; services that are essential as the economic climate worsens. This is an exciting time for east London. Newham, our home borough, has high levels of deprivation, poverty and unemployment, but also has regeneration on a unprecedented scale – the Olympics, Stratford,… Read more.
Keep the Promise, End Child Poverty.
Community Links are proud members of the End Child Poverty campaign. To mark ten years since the government's historic pledge to end child poverty, three young people, Courtney, David and Daniel from our Arc in the Park open access childcare project went to Downing Street yesterday to hand in a petition and ask the Prime Minster:… Read more.
Community Links official charity for Newham Classic 10k
Community Links has been selected as the chosen charity for the Newham Classic 10k run. More than 5000 runners are expected to take part in the race which will pass next to the magnificent London Olympic Stadium and finish at West Ham Park. The Newham Classic 10K is a celebration of freedom, union of multi-cultural communities and joining up of minds and bodies for numerous social causes with a single purpose of raising funds for charity and awareness through running. You can also take the… Read more.