Learning from history
The Welsh Government’s rent settlement announcement at the beginning of the year was greeted with dismay by many social housing providers in Wales. It has already resulted in many assessing cost-cutting strategies, and may result in a significant reduction in community investement activities by some Welsh housing associations.
The Centre for Excellence in Community Investment: National Conference 2019
Presentations from the day now available
HACT announces the launch of the Centre for Excellence in Community Investment
“The Centre for Excellence in Community Investment will advance the impact of community investment at the core of social housing,” said Andrew van Doorn, Chief Executive of HACT. “The online Centre will curate resources, research and evidence to support community investment professionals as they demonstrate their value and impact.”
Pembury Children’s Community: Impact Report
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.
Positive Steps Thamesmead: The story so far
This is the evaluation report of Peabody’s Positive Steps Thamesmead (PST) programme that started operating in Thamesmead in April 2015.
Happy Healthy Starts: Providing the tools to help families thrive
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.
Community investment and the bottom line
Using a series of data analytical methods, this research paper sets out to establish whether community investment activities provide a return on investment and cost savings.
Better Days: Have a good day, every day.
This guide was produced for staff and partners working across Orbit to help them create the best possible communications and engagement with customers.
Community asset transfer: A toolkit for housing providers
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.
Women, families and work: How to help L&Q’s women residents into work
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.
Developing a community investment strategy
This framework provides guidance for housing providers as they develop a community investment strategy that is tailored to the needs of their communities.
Measuring the social impact of community investment
This report provides a practical method to assess the social impact of community investment initiatives. Evolving from the groundbreaking work published by HACT and the London School of Economic’s Daniel Fujiwara in 2013, this handbook provides a model for measuring housing provider’s social impact.