Explore how Greater Manchester Housing Providers are raising the level of ambition for the role housing providers can play in building a system-wide approach to supporting community health and tackling systemic inequalities. 

Explore how the Bay Anchor Network demonstrates the wide range of positive outcomes that can be achieved through anchor collaboration. Packed with honest reflection and learning, it also provides useful insight into some of the challenges experienced by all anchor networks.

Discover how anchor organisations are using the Healthy Travel Charter in Wales to leverage their scale and convening power to shape healthier, more sustainable travel behaviours, supporting place-based partnerships aimed at reducing inequalities and meeting net zero commitments.

Discover how NHS Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust has designed a more inclusive approach to delivering apprenticeships in order to unlock their full potential widening access to employment and training opportunities in the NHS for local people.

Read how Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Partnership System (SNEE ICP) have worked collaboratively to align local partners within the ICS around a shared approach to measuring anchor impact.

Read how Barts Health NHS Trust has embedded the national ‘Grow Your Own AHP’ framework into their Healthcare Horizons Programme to connect more local young people with careers in the NHS.

Learn how Camden Council has been on a mission to bring the benefits of good, flexible work to its staff and residents across the borough.

Read how the London Anchor Institutions’ Network (LAIN) supported its Procurement Working Group to deliver local, inclusive economic growth by enabling more micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) to enter their supply chains.

Learn how the charity of Heart of Midlothian FC is embracing their unique position as an anchor organisation in Edinburgh to support neurodiverse children and their families.

Read how the simple act of providing free bikes to staff in Basildon University Hospital supported them to stay active, reduced carbon emissions, and addressed cost of living pressures.

Learn how One Gloucestershire co-designed an outreach programme with and for young people, supporting them to explore opportunities to translate their interests, hobbies and skills into meaningful health and social care careers.

Learn how North East London Foundation Trust addressed workforce and recruitment challenges by taking a new approach to recruiting locally.

Develop a baseline for - and extending - the value of the Trust’s greenspace for biodiversity and staff/service user health and wellbeing

Building gardens in GP surgeries and NHS hospitals so everyone who wishes to learn how to grow food can do so in a safe, secure and supported environment.

A placement scheme: local people completing a 4-month paid admin work placement with Barts Health NHS Trust.

An innovative widening participation programme aiming at increasing career awareness and reducing unemployment rates among young people.

Halton opens a health hub to provide outpatient services in local shopping centre

Guy’s and St Thomas’ (GSTT) Homeless Team provide advice and legal representation for homeless hospital patients through a partnership with Southwark Law Centre.

Our project, Anchoring on the Coast, set out to co-design an anchor framework for coastal communities and test a model of co-production.

The immediate trigger for the pilot was identification in the NHSGGC Talent Inclusion and Diversity Evaluation (TIDE) report of the need to strengthen an inclusive organisational culture through improved procurement practice. The subsequent TIDE ‘roadmap’ details the procurement actions required to make a long-term strategic change to become more inclusive.