Category: Placemaking

How Community Works helped Paula find her new job.

How Community Works helped Chao find her new job.

Community Benefit Case Study: MYDG By Rachel Hutton Muirhouse Youth Development Group (MYDG) is a small, dedicated team of youth workers that provide local young people “a positive sense of their […]

Community Works is Harbour’s employability service open to all tenants. We can help you to change direction, change jobs or look to get into volunteering, college or training.

More than 40 socially isolated older people on low incomes benefitted from the 12 weekly community meals and cook-along sessions. These ran alongside multicultural cook-along sessions which saw 170 individuals attend.

By Rachel Hutton, Harbour Connections The Heart of Newhaven Community Hub has been a beacon of unity and collaboration for the residents of Newhaven and the local area. The hub was established […]

Contributing to Harbour’s Community Benefits was an extremely rewarding experience.

When Ahmed’s employment ended, Harbour Homes’ Tenancy Support and Community Works teams stepped in to help him and his family. Ahmed had been a skilled upholsterer for nine years in Sudan and Liberia before moving to Edinburgh. As he didn’t have any formal qualifications or references, he had spent the last two years working at a warehouse, which didn’t renew his temporary contract.