Communities Leading Social Innovation

For over a decade, we’ve partnered with communities to tackle poverty, inequality, and injustice with practical action.

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What We’re Here To Do

We build programmes that put communities in the lead: from frontline advice that has supported more than 40,000 people, to youth programmes co-designed by young people, to community voice work that puts lived experience in front of decision-makers.

How We Work

We design and deliver programmes that tackle poverty, improve health and wellbeing, and create opportunities for individuals, families, and communities.

People facing challenges. Young people shaping their futures. Communities creating change. Organisations working to make a greater impact.

Access advice and support, partner with us on projects and programmes, volunteer your skills, or help strengthen communities through our work.

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Our Programmes

Every programme we innovate is co-designed with the people it serves. Rooted in lived experience, informed by evidence, and shaped with communities, our work is designed to create lasting change long after individual projects end.

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Advice for Life

Expert advice and practical support for housing, debt, employment, immigration, welfare rights, and more. Our advisers help people find solutions, secure outcomes, and build greater stability in their lives.

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Work With Us

We work with communities, charities, public services, funders, employers, and local partners to design and deliver practical solutions to real-world challenges. Together, we turn ideas into action and create positive change where it matters most.

Our Work

What we deliver, who we reach, and where we’re heading.

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Advice for Life

Specialist advice and casework for housing, debt, employment, immigration, and welfare rights for individuals and through employer partnerships.

Youth in the Lead

Co-designed programmes for young people aged 11–25 from mental health and financial resilience to enterprise, leadership, and creative voice.

Your Voice

We put lived experience at the very centre of decision-making, ensuring communities help shape the solutions that affect their lives.

Victoria Pashur Children’s Fund

Honouring the life and legacy of Victoria Pashur through direct support for children and families facing hardship.

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Social Innovation

We bring people, insight and evidence together to create and test new solutions that improve lives, strengthen communities and influence systems.

Support Our Work

Your support funds frontline advice, youth programmes and community voice work that wouldn't exist without people like you.

Our Partners & Collaborators ​

We’re proud to work alongside organisations who share our commitment to community-led change

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