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Below are all the latest news stories from Community Links. You can also access our latest press releases or view the latest newsletter, Linking Up.
For media enquiries, please contact Richard McKeever, 020 7473 9671. Alternatively, you can find more information about Community Links through our latest Annual Review.
Just Walk
Join us on Saturday May 15th to walk the South Downs. With a 10km, 20km, 40km and our ultimate 60km challenge, whilst raising valuable funds for Community Links. Only 30 miles from London, the South Downs are a rolling-hilled, wildlife-rich, walker’s paradise. From our start location at Goodwood Racecourse on the edge of the Downs the challenging route will take participants through spectacular woodlands and picturesque villages, with fantastic views of the coast. there really is… Read more.
Community Links launches groundbreaking secondary school
Our highly successful project supporting young people excluded from education is now officially recognised as a school. Last year 90% of the students went on to work, education, or training. We have been supporting students excluded from school for 17 years, and it has proved one of the most succesful projects of its kind. With 120 places in seven sites around Newham, it has now gained OFSTED recognition as a school, and is being launched today by local MP Stephen Timms. If you'd… Read more.
Chain Reaction Nov 12, 2009
The Chain Reaction event on November 12th is about connecting people together from around the world to work together on new ideas for social change. Chain Reaction is about one talent, experience or idea unlocking another, creating massive energy in a chain. Our individual actions multiplied by millions of others are a driving force for change. If our individual actions are reflected by those of organisations and businesses, and supported by governments, then, together, we have the power to change… Read more.
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.