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Below are all the latest news stories from Community Links. You can also access our latest press releases.
For media enquiries, please contact Will Horwitz, 020 7473 9669. You can find more information about Community Links through our latest Annual Review.
S-Team Summer Sports Programme
Community Links S-Team project is providing a free summer sports programme in parks across Newham. Throughout the year S-Team delivers a programme of sports, games and activities for young people in neighbourhoods and at youth centres across Newham, and for the summer activities will be at these venues: Barringtons Fields August 2nd to 6th Plashet Park (Shrewsbury Road Entrance) August 9th to 13th… Read more.
Celebrating Success at Community Links
Seventeen exceptional achievers received awards at Community Links annual ‘Grow our Own’ Award Presentations held at Community Links main centre last week. The night was a celebration of joint achievement. Winners were congratulated, along with their families and the Community Links projects which they attend. The individuals and trusts making the awards possible, along with guest supporters, were all thanked for their support of the ongoing work at the projects represented.… Read more.
Geraldine Blake wins award for outstanding business community collaboration
Community Links Chief Executive, Geraldine Blake, has been awarded the BITC London Marks & Spencer Sieff Award ‘for an individual, based in the community, who has best collaborated with business to benefit society,’ one of only two individual categories in Business in the Community’s (BITC’s) 2010 Awards for Excellence. Geraldine… Read more.
Frances Clarke: Freewoman of the Borough
On the 27th May one of Community Links staff, Frances Clarke was awarded the Freedom of the London Borough of Newham in ceremony at West Ham Town Hall. The award was in recognition of over 30 years of work dedicated to our local community. Frances started out driving a double-decker bus providing activities for young people across the borough. In the early 90’s, Frances was part of a team involved in securing £1.5 million… Read more.
The Work Programme and the informal economy
Community Links has just submitted two short briefing papers to the Department for Work and Pensions, looking at the Work Programme and the informal economy. In the Work Programme paper, we share our experience of running the most successful New Deal project in London and the South East, and recommend how the new Work Programme should be structured so that it best serves jobseekers who… Read more.