national work
Campaigns
Community Links has been running community-based projects and campaigns in east London for over 30 years.
The Need NOT Greed campaign, convened by Community Links, is a coalition of over 50 national and grassroots organisations including Oxfam, the TUC and UKCAP. The vision is to end the reliance on cash-in-hand work and help people move off benefits and into formal paid work. Need NOT Greed is unique in specifically addressing the informal economy and poverty in the UK. For more information visit www.neednotgreed.org.uk .
CREATE: A Community Allowance is a proposal for a new Community Allowance, a simple and dynamic support package enabling local people to do valuable and preventative work in their communities in partnership with community groups and public interest organisations. A coalition of organisations support the proposals which are outlined in our report. For more information visit www.communityallowance.org .
We are also members of several national campaigns led by other organisations. These include
- The Campaign to End Child Poverty
- The Fair Work Coalition - campaigning for fairness at work for those in low-paid and precarious jobs.
- The Fair Welfare Campaign - calling for reform of the benefits and tax credits system
- The European Anti Poverty Network minimum income campaign