If you’re at Summit next week, then join us for an inspiring Hackathon! Join James Green and residents from @weareallinuk to build a housing association of the future that puts residents at its heart. The Resident Empowerment Hackathon kicks off at 11.50am on Monday!

Three Eastlight residents hosted a hackathon at National Housing Federation' flagship Summit conference. Charlotte, Carrie and Jo, from our all-in Witham team, invited the sector to create a housing association of the future - one that truly puts residents at its heart. #ukhousing

This Friday 27 January, our Halstead All In Team are taking over Si Belle Beauty in Halstead to launch their Grow with the Flow initiative. Join the team as they promote period positivity in the community! 🌸

Local community groups and projects listen up! The applications for our community grants are now open 👀 You can be awarded up to £1.5k to help continue your hard work in our communities. Deadline is Monday 6th March. Click here to apply: bit.ly/3xKjTBG

📢Deadline reminder: Please make sure you submit your applications to the #Essex Fund by 5pm this Friday (3 March). Essex County Council If you haven't started yours yet, there is still time! It's only a short online form. Click the link below ⬇️

Grow with the Flow 🌸 Period. That shouldn't be a dirty word in 2023. The Halstead Team are here to empower young girls to openly discuss their periods and reduced the stigma from menstrual health. #weareallin

Application deadline 🚨 Make sure your applications are submitted by Monday 6th March, to ensure your community project is considered for our community grants. There's up to £1,500 available! Click here to apply: bit.ly/3xKjTBG

Grow with the Flow visits No.10 Downing Street! After receiving an exclusive invite from the Prime Minister, Suzanne and Carolina visited No.10 this week to talk about the work Grow with the Flow is doing with the Halstead community. Read more here: bit.ly/3L9fQGQ

ART, CARA, Soul Food and the Essex Boys and Girls Clubs have each received a significant cash boost InYourArea.co.uk | Eastlight Community Homes | Essex Community Foundation | #Braintree | #Essex inyourarea.co.uk/news/four-esse…

T-minus 10 minutes until tonight’s Witham All In Eastlight Community Homes Spring #Alliance meeting… Come join all your neighbours!

Our Braintree & Halstead All In teams welcomed Braintree MP and Foreign Secretary James Cleverly🇬🇧 to Eastlight House to celebrate their community projects. “Braintree’s Kinder Minds & Halstead’s Grow with the Flow are fabulous community projects, a huge thank you and well done!”

Our mighty All In Festival is here! Join us at Firstsite in Colchester on 22 April between 1.30-4pm for an afternoon of fun activities, lots of food and drink, and so much more! Click the link to register: bit.ly/3G6cq4k #WeAreAllIn #Community #Essex

Excited for tomorrow's All In Ideas Festival, the culmination of the first year of Eastlight Community Homes All In. 20 Essex Residents have been given a salary so they can dedicate a year to helping solve a big issue in their community. Tomorrow they present their final ideas 💪

Almost ready... All In Ideas Festival just a few hours away!!! The moment when our community entrepreneurs present their final ideas back to the community. Eastlight Community Homes

Great to share All In at #StrongerThings. 20 Essex residents, 4 missions, 12 months. Spontaneous applause for our community entrepreneurs from the 700 people in the room. Great to be around people as passionate as we are Eastlight Community Homes about radical community power.

All-star panel Alison Inman, Lara Oyedele #blacklivesmatter #ukhousing 🇵🇸, Andrew van Doorn and Hazel Young will quiz Essex residents who dedicated a year of their lives to tackling major social issues through All In at #housing2023 tomorrow. Join us at the Fringe Festival stage at 9.45am!

Blown away by the pitches from our Community Entrepreneurs at the Resident Dragons' Den this morning at #housing2023. Thanks @OwenJones84 for your compering and thanks to our panel Lara Oyedele #blacklivesmatter #ukhousing 🇵🇸 Andrew van Doorn Alison Inman and Hazel Young for all your questions and support.

Hear all about our groundbreaking All In programme at National Housing Federation's Summit conference this week. Our Community Empowerment Director James Green, is at the Knowledge Fair tomorrow at 10.50am, to talk about lessons learnt for resident engagement and community empowerment.

"There is a fundamental flaw at the heart of UK public life – it doesn’t actually involve the public." In a new guest blog for our UK Options 2040 project, Public Life CEO James Green, explores how we can involve the public in solving social problems. bit.ly/4acbQhM

It's time for a different type of public life - one boldly led by the public. My essay for Nesta on the Citizen Incubator model I've been designing and proving for the last seven years and the findings of the independent evaluation of it. #socialinnovation #CommunityPower