Building thriving communities is a priority for us – it’s right there in our mission statement. We’ve allocated over £20m since 1997 to support our residents and create opportunities for people across the capital. 

How are we doing?

We've just published a report which sets out our activities and the impact of our community programmes over the past twelve months.

Download our Community Programmes Impact Report (pdf, 2mb)

This 16-page publication focuses on six key areas:

• Employment and training
  Over the last year, for example, we have helped 525 people into jobs or apprenticeships.
• Community development
  We have 22 community centres and we have helped to establish management committees to run them. We also provide ongoing support to those committees.
• Volunteering
  We’ve increased the number of active volunteers to 572.
• Young people’s services
  We're helping over 200 young people gain nationally recognised accredited awards.
• Pembury children’s community
  We've launched a ten-year programme to improve the lives of children and families on the Pembury estate in Hackney, supporting more than 100 young people and 80 parents to date.
• Activate (a health and wellbeing programme funded by the Big Lottery)
  We're helping over 10,000 Londoners improve their physical and mental wellbeing.

You can learn a lot more about our work in our community programmes section.