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.
13 August 2018 | Early Action Task Force
What makes a place a good place to live and prosper in? This discussion document highlights the importance of recognising and valuing social infrastructure and making sure that it is as preventative as possible.
19 July 2018 | David Robinson
Generating Change is for changemakers everywhere, full of tips and insights gleaned from experience. Above all, it is a compelling collection of remarkable stories about Community Links' national work, trying to make a difference, sometimes winning, and learning all the time.
17 July 2018
Seven stories of how society is acting earlier
A report by the Early Action Task Forced detailing how funding is split between late, acute provision and early, preventative action and how funders, commissioners and delivery staff can plot a shift towards Early Action
Prevent Today or Pay Tomorrow: Time for Government to put prevention first. A report detailing how Government can implement Early Action in 100 days.
Practical steps for the next Government
Acting early on mental health
Looking towards an Early Action social security system
Taking an Early Action approach to our ageing society
The second report from the Early Action Task Force considering the big obstacles to the development of Early Action, as well as setting out recommendations