Communities that Work

🌟 Community Spotlight: believe housing 🌟

We’re kicking off the new year by shining a light on the brilliant work of believe housing across the North East. Their Employability Team is delivering trusted, long-term support that truly changes lives.

#BelieveHousing

‘They can open doors’: the community-based project helping people into work in Teesside Stockton’s JobsPlus is a pilot scheme with caseworkers who connect individual people with potential jobs, providing direct financial help where necessary

📺 JobsPlus in the news again!

We were pleased to welcome @guardian to our Stockton JobsPlus site to see how our place-based approach is supporting residents into sustainable work and strengthening the local community.

Read the article here: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

YouTube video by Sky News With rising unemployment and fewer vacancies, millions have given up looking for work

📺 JobsPlus in the news!

Great to see @SkyNews highlighting rising unemployment (now 5.1%) and the impact of JobsPlus.

We’re proud of the progress so far, and are focused on securing further funding to continue the programme.

🎥 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjKb...

Big news 🎉
Communities that Work welcomes four new Directors to our board: James Howell, Helen Phoenix, Ellie Patience, and Tracey Walsh.
We’re thrilled to have their expertise supporting our mission to create pathways into employment. #CommunitiesthatWork #Director

Yesterday's Autumn Budget set out the Labour Government’s priorities that will shape communities, services, and local growth ahead.

We hope the focus remains on community-driven growth and pulling working people out of poverty.

#Budget #CommunitiesThatWork #KeepBritainWorking #Chancellor

We’re thrilled that our MD Lynsey Sweeney will be speaking at this year’s #HOLEX Winter Network Event.

Lynsey will share insights on #JobsPlus, inclusive routes into meaningful work, and how social housing can partner with adult/community learning.

#AdultLearning #Employment

Great to see the Keep Britain Working review published recently, aimed at addressing economic inactivity.

The findings strongly back place-based employment support like the JobsPlus pilot.

🔗https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/keep-britain-working-review-final-report

#CtW #EmploymentSupport

Great to partner with Southern Housing to welcome Kevin McKenna MP to the Swale JobsPlus hub today.

Fantastic to showcase the work the team is doing to support local people into meaningful, sustainable employment.

#CtW #CommunitiesThatWork #JobsPlus #EmploymentSupport

📚 #GetTheNationLearning Week is just a week away!

We’re proud to support @LearnWorkUK’s campaign championing lifelong learning — vital for helping people gain skills & secure sustainable jobs in a changing economy.

Learn more 👉 getthenationlearning.org.uk/about/

⏰ Last chance! Take part in the Housing, Growth & Green Jobs Alliance survey today.

Your input will help shape research on how social housing can contribute to the UK’s green transition.

👉 forms.office.com/e/Ez7LsY9YD5

#GreenJobs #SocialHousing #NetZero #Retrofit #Skills"

Theorising ‘best practice’ for supporting those furthest from the market into work or self-employment in France and England - Zografia Bika, Catherine Locke, Caterina M Orlandi, Benjamin Valcke, 2025 Mainstream/statutory Micro-Enterprise-and-Employment-Support-Services (MEESS) have delivered poor outcomes for disadvantaged individuals and deprived areas. In ...

A new University of East Anglia study shows third-sector services, like housing associations, are more effective than govt programmes in helping the long-term unemployed.

The key?
💡 Focus on people’s strengths
🤝 Long-term support
🏘️ Community roots

Read more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

At #LabourConference we hosted a #CommunitiesThatWork panel with Plus Dane on JobsPlus, focused on tackling unemployment and inactivity in social housing.

Huge thanks to @tobyperkinsmp.bsky.social and John Grady MP for their insights!

#SocialHousing #Employment

A place to live, a way to work: the role of HAs in reaching 80% employment Join Communities at Work at the Labour Party Conference for their fringe panel event, followed by complimentary teas & coffees until 6pm

📢 Tomorrow at #LabourPartyConference: A Place to Live, A Way to Work

Join us to explore how housing associations can help deliver Labour’s 80% employment target.

🗓 Tue 30 Sept, 16:30–18:00
📍 Atlantic Pavilion, Albert Dock

👉 Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-place-to...

More than 700 people engaged and 150 in jobs as housing associations across England trial new model of employment support for their tenants | FE News | More than 700 people engaged and 150 in jobs as housing associations across England trial new model of employment support for their tenants

Thrilled to see coverage of the JobsPlus pilot sites this month, incl. this great piece from @fenews.bsky.social .

Research shows social housing residents are nearly twice as likely to be out of work.

Government must commit to rolling the programme out nationwide!

www.fenews.co.uk/education/mo...

🌍 Launching the Housing, Growth & Green Jobs Alliance research!

A major new research project with Evidence First & Opergy exploring how #SocialHousing can power the UK’s #NetZero workforce.

📢 Housing providers: take our survey 👉 forms.office.com/e/Ez7LsY9YD5

#GreenJobs #CtW