Community Links provides a comprehensive, wraparound service delivering debt, welfare, housing and legal advice thanks to a team of in-house and front-line advisors and volunteers.
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
The Early Action Task Force was established in 2011 as a group of leaders from across sectors committed to building a society that prevents problems from occurring rather than one that struggles with the consequences.
From our base in east London, we apply the learning from our local work to influence and achieve positive national change.
The latest news and blogs from Community Links
12 April 2018
The Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, visited Community Links to discuss the Serious Violence Strategy
9 April 2018
Arvinda Gohil, our Chief Executive, attended a roundtable with the Home Secretary, where the government launched its new Serious Youth Violence strategy.
30 March 2018
Here is this month’s round up of Early Action news. We’re always on the lookout for examples of good practice, so if you’re involved in an Early Action project that you’d like us to look at, and potentially include in future bulletins, please let us know!
23 March 2018
Community Links has been awarded £498,000 of National Lottery funding to expand the ground breaking work of its Early Action Task Force over the next three years.
22 February 2018
Happy New Year! It’s been an eventful few months for the Early Action Task Force. In this update, we look at different responses to rising knife crime rates, the malnourished elderly, the launch of the Early Years Hubs and the growing mental health crisis.
22 November 2017
Community Links celebrates 40 years with release of new strategy, new branding and book 'Ready for Everything Communities’ strategy aspires to be ambitious for and with the community it works with ‘Generating Change’ is a collection of game changing stories from Community Links’ history