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Building evidence that drives insight and demonstrates outcomes will be the Centre’s third pillar, demonstrating the impact of community investment.

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Pembury Children’s Community: April 2015 to March 2018 Impact Report
Published by Peabody, June 2018

The 10 year Pembury Children’s Community programme in Hackney is now three years old. This report summarises its achievements and outlines plans for the future.

Evidence shows that it is essential to work across all areas of children’s lives – home, school and community – to make a difference. Children’s Communities bring together local organisations over the long term so that children get the support they need, regardless of their background or where they live.

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Better Days:
Have a good day, every day. Our guide to communicating and engaging with our customers
Published by Orbit, October 2016

This guide was produced for staff and partners working across Orbit to help them create the best possible communications and engagement with customers. It includes customer insights, how to define your audience, and how to create a strong message, use the right channels, and understand what matters to your customers.

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Women, families and work:
How to help L&Q’s women residents into work and tackle the barriers they face
Executive Summary
Published by L&Q, August 2015

This research aims to better understand the constraints felt by L&Q’s women residents with children to make the transition into work, and the support that could make and sustain the transition.

It also aimed to identify a range of practical ways in which L&Q could support women residents to overcome barriers to work.

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Community asset transfer:
A toolkit for housing providers
Authors: Mary-Kathryn Rallings Adams and Frances Harkin
Published by HACT, September 2015

Using the experience of Affinity Sutton’s Community Asset Transfer Programme, this toolkit explains how they moved their portfolio of community buildings into long-term local ownership.

The toolkit explores the process from the perspective of community organisations, in order to enable housing providers to understand the operational realities and practical challenges of Community Asset Transfer.

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Positive Steps Thamesmead:
The story so far
Authors: Giles Piercy, Paula Hines and Get Kellaghan
Published by Peabody, May 2018

This is the evaluation report of Peabody’s Positive Steps Thamesmead (PST) programme that started operating in Thamesmead in April 2015.

The report shows how the programme is having a measurable impact on the lives of local people, of whom well over a thousand were seen by PST volunteers. It also highlights how PST has benefitted other stakeholder groups, including statutory providers, local partner and volunteers.

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Happy Healthy Starts:
Providing the tools to help families thrive
Author: Rachel Dixon and Christoph Sinn
Published by Orbit, March 2018

This report is the culmination of twelve months of research conducted by Orbit in partnership with the Child Poverty Action Group to find out more about the children and parents living in their homes.

It includes a number of practical solutions, including the three key steps:

• listening and engaging with children to understand their needs
• challenging and questioning processes
• working in partnership to achieve more

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Developing a community investment strategy:
A framework for practitioners
Author: Sally Thomas
Published by HACT, June 2015 (updated version)

This framework provides guidance for housing providers as they develop a community investment strategy that is tailored to the needs of their communities.

The framework can be both a guide and a toolkit: it brings together information, experience and references in order to help all housing providers develop their community investment programmes.

This is the updated version from 2015.

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James Howick – Saltworkz
Clarion Futures Communities case study
Published by Clarion Futures, September 2018

This case study explains how Clarion Futures has supported James in his work at Saltworkz, a community café in Haywards Heath.

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