Turn2us place-based programmes
Our place-based programmes allow us to work alongside communities to address financial insecurity. We partner with local organisations and residents with lived experience of financial hardship to co-design support that creates long-term impact.
We know it takes time to embed meaningful and lasting change within a community. That's why we commit to working in a place for a minimum of 10 years.
By collaborating with local charities, services and community groups, we learn what works for each community. Whether we're offering cash grants, information, or connections to wider services, our goal is to reduce stigma, improve access and strengthen local systems of support.
Our place-based programmes teach us a lot about the types of support that have a real impact for people. By using these insights, we can influence policy discussions and start to change the system.
We are working in Middlesbrough and Barking and Dagenham. And as part of our Greater Manchester Programme, we are working in partnership with community organisations and local residents in the North West, delivering programmes which ensure people giving and receiving care are financially secure.
Collaborating on Gendered Poverty in Middlesbrough
We are working with the Smallwood Trust and Buttle UK to tackle the root causes of gendered and child poverty by creating a collaborative programme which aims to test the effectiveness of a co-produced approach to grant-making for women and their children.
Our goal is to build a strong partnership between local communities and funders, who will take an intersectional gendered lens approach, to support longer-term transformational change. We believe that working alongside local communities will help create a movement of change against the systemic poverty suffered by women and children.
Read more about our collaboration in Middlesbrough here.
Barking and Dagenham
We are working in Barking and Dagenham to build relationships and, through co-production, work towards financial security for all.
Our goal at Barking and Dagenham is to work with partners and residents and build on the amazing work that is already happening in the borough. We have partnered with Kingsley Hall Church and Community Centre, Future M.O.L.D.S Communities and Marks Gate Relief Project to shift power to residents and find local solutions to local challenges that destigmatise financial hardship and promote unity.
Read more about our collaboration in Barking and Dagenham here.
Greater Manchester Programme
We believe thriving communities are ones where people can live in dignity and get the support they need. We also know that it is organisations and residents in those communities that know best how to support people who are carers or people with care needs.
In partnership with community organisations and local residents in the North West, we are working to deliver programmes which ensure people giving and receiving care are financially secure.
Residents at a Greater Manchester Programme event.
Everyone's Environment: Have your say on climate action
We are working with Race Equality Foundation, Disability Rights UK, and New Philanthropy Capital (NPC) through the Everyone's Environment initiative to address the interconnected challenges of environmental crisis and economic injustice.
Our goal is to build ambitious cross-sector collaborations that centre community voice and economic justice in climate action, ensuring that the transition to a greener future does not deepen existing inequalities. With over 14 million people living in poverty in the UK, including 4.5 million children, we believe that meaningful environmental progress must protect and uplift those already marginalised.
By taking an approach that recognises how climate change disproportionately impacts people on low incomes - through higher energy costs, rising food prices, and inadequate housing - we aim to create transformational change that benefits everyone, particularly those most at risk of being left further behind.