Goal

Support place-based collaborations between anchor institutions which utilise their assets to improve well being and reduce inequalities

Key deliverables

  • Promoting more inclusive local employment practices by the NHS

  • Encouraging more place-based partnerships which support local people into NHS employment

  • Promoting the use of vacant anchor property for community benefit

Members

Camden Council ~ Islington Council ~ NHS England ~ Transport for London ~ London Higher ~ London Councils ~ Lambeth Council ~ Lewisham Council ~ Southwark Council ~ Tower Hamlets Council ~ Richmond and Wandsworth Council ~ Kensington and Chelsea Council

  • Pitching workshopped proposal to NHS HR Directors on how to make recruitment more accessible and utilise place-based partnerships to support people into roles

  • Co-design and test a pilot programme to support more local people into NHS

  • Producing guidance on why and how to get more anchor assets into use by communities

  • Capturing global lessons, evidence and approaches to building productive and effective local anchor institution partnerships  

Programme priorities

Key resources

Building community benefit through local anchor networks

This document weaves in stories of networks found across London to demonstrate the origins, evolution, approaches, and impact of anchor networks across London. Though each network is different, they all share a mission-oriented approach to generate community benefit in the places they operate. That mission is the root of a network’s design as membership, action, and evolution over time all are in service of advancing those shared objectives.

Anchor Assets for Community Benefit

This factsheet captures the knowledge sharing and case studies collected in the Anchor Assets workstream, which was focused on utilising local authority networks to get more vacant Transport for London property into use by communities.

Case studies