We define community investment as the work that organisations do alongside local people and communities to help them thrive.
With increasing community needs and finite available resources, a strategic, joined-up approach to community investment activities is critical.
Using our expertise and experience, we have designed a free health check tool to support you to maximise your impact, for the benefit of local people and communities across the UK and develop an action plan to support your work.
Accessed via HACT’s online platform’s community investment channel, the free tool takes you through a series of simple questions so you can gain an understanding of your organisation’s current offer; organisational vision; organisational understanding; strategy, and community input.
You can access this free tool here.
Our team of specialists can support you in creating the right strategy for your community work and delivering an organisation-wide approach to community investment tailored to your community priorities and aspirations.
As part of our community research offer we have the tools and expertise to help you to identify local issues and priorities and to pinpoint key partners and collaboration opportunities across any designated area. Supporting you to maximise your investment in communities.
Thanks to our many networks and collaborations we have a thorough understanding of good and emerging practice in community investment across the sector. We can work with you and your teams to review your existing delivery and to provide inspiration for the wider sector and beyond – providing you with a roadmap to improving your approach to community investment.
Whether you are looking to develop an evaluation approach for a new programme or would like to understand the social impact of your existing initiatives our team of experienced social researchers can support you to capture and report on the impact of your work, as well as making recommendations for improving future provision.
Good community investment involves community members in every stage of designing, delivering and evaluating a programme or service. Our communities team can support you to conduct community research and increase your capacity to co-design activities with residents and local partners.
The voluntary and community sector is constantly evolving, to ensure your teams have a good understanding of emerging issues, opportunities and good practice we can work with you to design and deliver training programmes aligned to your community priorities.
The Centre for Excellence in Community Investment conference is the only in-person event designed for community investment colleagues. Featuring speakers from across social housing, as well as experts in place-based activities, the 2024 conference also includes action-based workshops, where colleagues from across the sector will work together, share ideas and design solutions to the key issues facing social housing residents.
Date: Tuesday 24 September
Time: 09:00 – 16:00
Location: The Birmingham Conference & Events Centre, Birmingham, UK
If you have a question, query or idea, we’d love to hear from you.
Get in touch with our Head of Communities and Projects, Rebecca Rieley
