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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.
4 May 2020 | Community Links
This paper reflects upon the housing crisis in the UK, exploring the impact of housing provision, poor living conditions and instability upon mental health.
In this paper, we present evidence that food poverty in the UK has increased since 2008; that it is being driven by a range of factors, including welfare policies and low income; and that it is taking a severe toll on the mental health and wellbeing of our communities.
This paper investigates the impact of digital exclusion on our local community.
20 April 2020 | Community Links
This one-page report details our outreach statistics from the last year across all of our programme areas. We celebrate the achievements of our team reaching over 60,000 people in 2019.
Community Links is delighted to share with you our Social Impact Report for 2019. We reflect upon the progress made across all of our programme areas and within our organisation, as well as outlining our goals for the year ahead.
3 February 2020 | Community Links
This new report - which builds on a 2011 report by Community Links, Deep Value - confirms the view that lives are transformed by the human connections created through strong, meaningful and consistent relationships, and these are especially important where individuals are facing complex challenges.
17 July 2019 | Community Links
Community Links ran an In-Work Support pilot to test how employment pathways could be made more sustainable for young BAME women.
6 March 2019 | Community Links
Celebrating 40 years of Community Links and sharing ambitions for the future.
9 January 2019 | Community Links
Community Links has engaged with over 200 people in Newham about the root causes and possible solutions to serious youth violence. This report includes our key findings and recommendations to tackle the daily aggression, structural inequalities and inhibitors on self-expression which shape young people’s lives.
3 December 2018 | Early Action Task Force
Looking back over the seven years, our progress towards a society that prevents problems from occurring has been an uneven road. Our plan of work for the next phase will move us towards making Early Action not just common sense, but common practice.