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Integrating community cohesion into Kineara’s future work

Integrating community cohesion into Kineara’s future work

Over the last year, Kineara partnered with Southern Housing Group to deliver a community cohesion programme for residents of a development in Fulneck Place. Called New Beginnings, the innovative programme was designed to support residents who were new to the development with their move, foster good..

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Motivate to Educate first primary school pilot builds on early success

M2E, Kineara’s educational engagement programme for school students, delivered its first programme to primary school pupils this summer.

Taking place at Redlands Primary School in Tower Hamlets between March and July, Kineara practitioner Anja Lewin worked with five pupils referred by the..

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Kineara Summer Brunch – thanks to everyone who took part!

Kineara launched a licensed version of our innovative Rent Support Programme last week at a summer brunch and information day at our offices in Tower Hamlets. We had a great day, thank you all who came to hear about our work!

The Rent Support Programme (RSP), which has been running for three..

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CASE STUDY: Learning to keep spending on track

Kineara practitioner, Liz Towobola, spoke with one of her residents at the close of her programme about how they worked through her spending to ease the pressure on rent payments.
Liz: I remember at the beginning of the programme you were feeling under pressure, like the house wasn’t yours..

Posted by kineara in Housing, Latest, Testimonial

Anja Lewin and Melanie Sirinathsingh talk about M2E’s early success

Kineara’s innovative Motivate2Educate programme is bringing a holistic approach to educational support for young people in Tower Hamlets and has just been awarded its first major contract. Melanie Sirinathsingh speaks with M2E practitioner Anja Lewin about how the programme originated and what it..

Posted by kineara in Education, Latest

Reaching crisis point: Kineara's RSP featured in Inside Housing

Reaching crisis point

02/05/2014

Tenants on the verge of eviction are being helped to remain in their homes by a recently formed social enterprise that is saving their landlords significant sums in the process. Daniel Douglas finds out how

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PAN European's Horizon 2020 Profile on Kineara

Social Pioneer: Profile on Kineara for PAN European’s Horizon2020

 

Maria Morgan (pictured) is the director of Kineara Ltd, a social enterprise that assists the most vulnerable families in society through pioneering methods of  intervention. Kineara has a bespoke cost saving..

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East End’s Family Intervention pioneer Nikki Bradley gets MBE

One of Kineara’s founders, Nikki Bradley, receives an MBE

“Service manager Nikki Bradley, whose project won a Public Service award from a national newspaper in 2009, receives her honour “for services to children and families”.

Nikki became an advisor to Whitehall as..

Posted by kineara in Impact, Latest

24 Dash reports on our Rent Support Programme

Read all about Kineara’s Rent Support Programme on housing news site 24dash.com
Rent support scheme nears 100% success rate in preventing evictions

A scheme that helps vulnerable tenants in rent arrears avoid eviction has recorded a 97% success rate for keeping people in their homes.

The..

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