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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.
Annual Review 2009: Overcoming Challenges
Our Annual Review for 2009 reports on 12 months work of taking our extensive services to where they are most needed; services that are essential as the economic climate worsens. This is an exciting time for east London. Newham, our home borough, has high levels of deprivation, poverty and unemployment, but also has regeneration on a unprecedented scale – the Olympics, Stratford,… Read more.
Keep the Promise, End Child Poverty.
Community Links are proud members of the End Child Poverty campaign. To mark ten years since the government's historic pledge to end child poverty, three young people, Courtney, David and Daniel from our Arc in the Park open access childcare project went to Downing Street yesterday to hand in a petition and ask the Prime Minster:… Read more.
Community Links official charity for Newham Classic 10k
Community Links has been selected as the chosen charity for the Newham Classic 10k run. More than 5000 runners are expected to take part in the race which will pass next to the magnificent London Olympic Stadium and finish at West Ham Park. The Newham Classic 10K is a celebration of freedom, union of multi-cultural communities and joining up of minds and bodies for numerous social causes with a single purpose of raising funds for charity and awareness through running. You can also take the… Read more.
Newham’s Got Talent
Volunteers from one of our partners, Fremantle Media, the company which produces Britain’s Got Talent and X Factor, gave our children's and youth projects a unique opportunity – the chance to showcase their artistic talent! Over 34 acts from 11 centres entered the auditions, and the selected finalists performed brilliantly for families and friends in our Neighbours Hall with the company’s professional lighting, sound, judges and compere. Excitingly the winners were invited to… Read more.
Advice, Family and Community Work
In our reception each morning, our Advice services on welfare benefits, housing and debt are as busy as ever. On Wednesday mornings volunteers provide form filling support to help the vulnerable and elderly. These volunteers are all on our Advice course and true to our ethos of empowering our service users, many first came to us seeking advice themselves. Members of our 2008 class recently received their certificates; five are going on to study for a degree while four have secured permanent employment.… Read more.