Centre Resources

The 5-day Women’s DIY Skills Programme is delivered by The Guinness Partnership as part of their social investment strategy which focuses on employment, training and education

At the end of 2024, the UK government launched a consultation on the Civil Society Covenant Framework, aiming to gather input from charities and third-sector organisations on how best to engage with them to deliver solutions in communities. This initiative could be a game-changer for the housing sector – here’s why.

This report presents the findings from a collaborative research project with seven housing associations that set out to understand what community spaces owned and/or managed by housing associations look like in practice and develop an impact measurement framework that enables housing associations to articulate the key benefits of community spaces, take a shared approach to measuring their impact and be able to make well-informed business cases for investment.

HACT’s Age-Friendly Social Housing Programme is coming to an end.  We look back at our collaborative two-year initiative designed to build inclusive communities for older residents across the UK.

Learning from HACT’s Age Friendly Social Housing Programme

HACT Health Lead, Sarah Parsons attended an event from The Department of Levelling Up Housing and Communities (GLUHC) and Tackling Root causes upstreams of Unhealthy Urban Development (TRUUD). Here are her thoughts

Following a visit to the Poplar HARCA team, our Head of Communities and Projects Rebecca Rieley considers what she has learned from this housing association’s approach, and how this has informed early thoughts about the future communities and projects work at HACT.

Last month, HACT had the privilege of hosting Clarion Futures and Playing Out for their webinar entitled “Pro-play: what’s it all about and why is play important?”.  The session explored the crucial role housing associations can play in promoting and facilitating play within communities and highlighting the short- and long-term benefits of access to outdoor play spaces for children and their family units.  Here’s a detailed recap of the key points discussed during the hour-long event. 

Via a number of multi-agency events, the Age Friendly Social Housing Programme has identified two key loneliness interventions

We sat down with Rebecca Rieley, HACT’s new Head of Communities and Projects, and discussed her vision for the role, as well as the current set of challenges facing communities in the UK and how HACT’s work can mitigate them.

Read the key insights and learnings shared in The Centre for Excellence’s first Centre Connects session which focused on green skills.