Working with Economic Inclusion at Peabody
About us
Peabody is one of the UK’s oldest not-for-profit housing associations. We want to help people flourish by providing great homes and housing services and making a positive impact in communities.
We have 107,000 homes and 220,000 residents across London and the North Counties. We also provide care and support services for over 17,500 customers.
We have around 100 community centres. Many are led by management committees and partners. They offer a range of free or low-cost activities in the heart of the community.
About the Peabody Community Foundation
We want to make a positive impact in communities and help our residents and customers become healthier, wealthier and happier.
We do this by working with residents and partners to combine our funding, skills and experience so we can offer the widest possible range of services, support and opportunities.
We play a central role in how we invest in our communities and put people and their needs at the centre of everything we do.
Work, learn, flourish
The Economic Inclusion team supports residents, communities and local businesses to access economic opportunities.
We partner with local organisations, employers and Peabody’s supply chain to create and promote opportunities for our residents and those in our communities. This helps boost incomes, secure quality employment, advance careers, and develop professional skills and aspirations. We also support start-ups and established businesses to grow and scale.
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Work
We help to build peoples confidence, secure better paid, higher quality jobs and establish long lasting careers.
Using our relationship with partners, contractors and suppliers, we help connect residents and those in our communities with work, apprenticeships and volunteering opportunities.
Talk to us about
Job and apprenticeship opportunities, career fairs, job clubs, work experience, volunteering, S106 planning obligations or developing your social value commitment.
Case study
We partner with the Good People to deliver the Just Transition Skills Coalition Initiative.
This initiative aims to cultivate local talent from diverse and disadvantaged communities for quality employment and improve energy efficiency in buildings. The programme will connect 2,500 people from within our communities into quality employment by 2027, focusing on roles related to modern and energy-efficient building solutions.
Learn
We facilitate training to support people to enhance their careers or become job ready.
We’re focused on developing skills whilst increasing access to growth sectors like construction, green skills, health and social care and administration.
Talk to us about Skills gaps within your organisation, growth sectors and future skills, workshops and training courses, day to day skills, S106 planning obligations or delivering social value skills initiatives.
Case study
Peabody, with partners London Square and Islington Council work to improve the energy efficiency of homes on the Holloway Park Development. There’s a Green Skills Hub, based on site, which supports people develop modern and sustainable construction skills.
The hub is home to a number of construction courses and employment support events to equip Islington residents with the skills to kick off a rewarding career.
As part of this partnership, we also work together to support women into construction and access employment and apprenticeship opportunities on the development.
F lourish
We support individuals in our communities throughout their entrepreneurial journey, regardless of their starting point.
Through our enterprise network, we assist entrepreneurs and businesses in starting or growing. We support with opportunities to trade and to take up either commercial or shared workspaces. We also facilitate opportunities to network with like-minded individuals and experts.
Talk to us about Social enterprise, local procurement, meet the buyer events, networking, growing your business, available space to locate your business and opportunities to trade.
Case study
Every month we host the Peabody Business Forum. Its mission is to support those in our communities to establish and grow their business. It brings together partners, business owners, founders, entrepreneurs and business support experts to build connections and share business ideas and tips.
Here’s what recent attendees had to say...
“The business interactions I have had in the past year since connecting with the Peabody Business Forum has been nothing short of transformational for me.” Baba, Director and Founder.
“It was a great opportunity and definitely worth attending this event. Thanks to the crew for making it insightful.”
Bola - Travel Content Creator and Blogger.
“Peabody’s Business Forum continues to deliver excellence… I am so proud to be part of this community.”
Nickesha, business owner.
Add value
Social value is a key part of who we are and something we’re passionate about.
We work with our contractors and suppliers to collectively create more social value through our spending decisions so we can address more of the key issues faced by our residents and those in our communities.
We’ve embedded social value targets in our largescale contracts. We engage with smaller partners to ensure that our communities benefit from employment opportunities, funding for grassroots events and projects and provide volunteering opportunities.
Talk to us about
Delivering social value, your social value aspirations or targets, social impact and community investment.
Case study
As part of their social value commitments, construction company Wates, has partnered with Peabody to deliver a full and fresh repainting of the main hall in Peabody’s Unity Centre in North West London.
They used their skills and expertise, and collaborated with their suppliers, subcontractors and Peabody colleagues. The support Wates provided was essential so the centre could continue to be a valued resource for communities to come together and flourish.
The impact of this work also enables the Peabody Community Foundation to secure more regular rentals and therefore greater revenue from the refurbished space. It is then reinvested into community initiatives delivered on-site.