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Our Youth and Employment services enable people to realise their potential by removing barriers to success, building confidence and improving life skills.
Community Links delivers projects promoting early diagnoses of cancer by increasing the uptake of the NHS Cancer screening programmes and raising awareness
From our base in east London, we apply the learning from our local work to influence and achieve positive national change.
Our community services and programmes directly address some of the key challenges that hold people back.
The latest news and blogs from Community Links
12 April 2021 | Chi Kavindele, David Robinson, Community Links
It is with great sadness that we heard of the passing of Kevin Jenkins OBE.
5 May 2020 | Chi Kavindele, co-director, and Charlie Ogilvie, Year Here fellow, Community Links
At Community Links, while we respond to the here and now, we also continue to keep long-term capacity building at the heart of our work.
1 August 2019
Our community hub in Canning Town is one of 800+ sites of historical significance opening its doors for the London-wide event on the 21st September.
17 July 2019 | Sundus Masood
Community Links ran an In-Work Support pilot to test how employment pathways could be made more sustainable for young women.
28 June 2019
A free event exploring the relationship between detention, migration and the arts, headlined by Lemn Sissay.
19 June 2019
Community Links and Catch22 are hosting an employability fair in Canning Town to help connect local jobseekers and employers.
30 May 2019 | Elizabeth Prinz
Elizabeth Prinz analyses the impact of our 6-month pilot of an emergency food support service and what it told us about food poverty in our borough.
3 May 2019
“We know the power of vaccines to prevent killer diseases and reach children, including those who may not have immediate access to the doctors, nurses and health facilities they need to save them when severe illness comes." Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO regional director for Africa.
3 April 2019
Jacqui McCluskey, Director of Policy and Communications at Homeless Link, said: “There are at least 600 women sleeping on our streets every night, and thousands more who are hidden from sight, homeless and without a safe, secure place to live..."
6 March 2019
We are delighted to share with you our new book, 40 Stories, which tells 40 inspirational stories from Community Links' rich history. This belongs to you.