Making Connections Work Ltd.

Rudi Page, CEO, Making Connections Work, policy implementation specialists focused on 5 core areas:

  • business support
  • local economic development
  • community services
  • healthcare delivery systems
  • diaspora affairs

Rudi led and modelled the widely acclaimed NLTEC / BLLN Synergy Project (Haringey, Barnet, Endfield), which has been replicated at many local and national institutions.

Over the past 40 years, he has worked in the private, public, and voluntary sectors within Haringey. Rudi champions co-production values and a ‘cluster’ model of community partnerships.

Rudi Page. Making Connections Work Limited. Haringey, Barnet, Enfield. Policy implementation specialist.


HoPEC: House of Polish and European Community

House of Polish & European community (HoPEC) provides a warm welcome to people from Poland and other European countries. HoPEC provide support in various languages, namely Polish, French & English. With advance booking, interpreters can be arranged for other languages. They offer a range of services, including:

  • advice - 1:1 confidential advice on a range of issues including employment, education, family support, housing, finance and healthcare
  • immigration - they are OISC registered which means they are qualified to give immigration advice and help with applications such as the ‘EU settlement scheme’
  • other general enquiries - such as help with reading a letter, form filling and registering with services
  • sworn translation services – for Polish / English
  • signposting – to local services, activities & classes - if they can’t help you, they will direct you to an organisation who can!

Monika, Alicja, Sandra. HOPEC, House of Polish and European community. Wood Green, Haringey. Advice, Immigration, Signposting, Translation services.


Community Cook Up

Community Cook Up is a Community Action Group, which meets weekly for the past 7 years, at the Centre of the Northumberland Park Estate, in North Tottenham. We bring local people together to find their collective voice, to cook up food and ideas, and support each other.

Community Cook Up is by residents of Northumberland Park, for residents of Northumberland Park. We need co-design and co-production to ensure that what we provide is relevant and accessible. We want the Council and ICB to co-design and co-produce with us, in a meaningful and respectful partnership which is both trauma informed and aware of structural oppression, power dynamics and privilege, working with the community on its terms and in its spaces. 

Alison. Community Cook Up. Northumberland Park, Haringey. WEEKLY DROP-IN, HOT MEAL, WELLBEING ACTIVITIES, SUPPORT, ADVICE, FOODBANK


You vs You CIC

You vs You is a positive approach to support the development of all young people. We want to support people to have bright futures, enjoy fulfilling lives and realise their potential through positive relationships and exciting opportunities. By doing this we ensure that our future generation is equipped to create the economic and social changes needed for community development. We can create communities that enable young people to thrive and flourish to be hopeful, focused and successful.

For You vs You, co-production means involving our beneficiaries in developing, shaping and helping to implement changes that are needed in our community and taking roles in delivering projects.

You vs You. Ahmed. Tottenham, Haringey. Young people, mental health, sports, bright futures.


Dalmar Heritage and Family Development

I am a Somali woman who came to the UK during the long civil war in Somalia. I was still a teenager and doing work experience for a local newspaper (called Dalmar) in Mogadishu, dreaming of being a journalist. Without realising it I was absorbing the oral traditions of my country. My future vanished and I had to adjust to an uncertain world where I was a refugee.

In 2008 I was a parent volunteer at a local primary school. I saw that children did not speak Somali and had no contact with their culture or heritage. I began to tell them stories and to network with other mothers. From this our organisation, Dalmar Heritage and Family Development was born. Dalmar means 'traveller' in Somali. We are travellers, we brought nothing with us except the knowledge and memories in our heads, and the networks that we still maintain with each other across the world. This I believe is of great value.

Dalmar Heritage and Family Development activities:

  • storytelling projects
  • solutions to social problems
  • practical training with themes of Somali culture
  • Books and publications in English and Somali
  • supplementary school for children and to work on the problems of Somali women living in London
  • regular healthy activity programmes including mental health awareness to help mend the health inequalities in Black and minority ethnic communities.

Dalmar Heritage and Family Development. Shamsa. Tottenham, Haringey. Somali Community Organisations


Sewn Together

We are a voluntary, community composes of local organisations, groups and individuals working together to promote and facilitate the educational, employment, training civic and cultural needs of the target group through information, guidance, and timely advice with a focus on crafting, health & wellbeing, media, digital, creative arts, green & environmental sustainability.

We support adults, mainly women living in low-income households, many from BAME communities who are long term unemployed, economically inactive and some have a diagnosed physical or mental health condition. We provide accessible pathways to skills transfer and training, which could lead into further education, employment, or start-up enterprises.

Sonja. Sewn Together. Haringey. Empowering creative communities


Turkish Cypriot Community Association (TCCA)

TCCA provides culturally, linguistically, and religiously sensitive services to Turkish Cypriot and Turkish people residing in the UK. As an organisation it bridges gaps in inequality and poverty, via the development of needs led projects.

Some of TCCAs project include: health screening events, building healthy workplaces, and support for people with long term health conditions.

Erim, Mekella. Turkish Cypriot Community Association. SEWN TOGETHER We are a voluntary, community composes of local organisations, groups and individuals working together to promote and facilitate the educational, employment, training civic and cultural needs of the target group through information, guidance, and timely advice with a focus on crafting, health & wellbeing, media, digital, creative arts, green & environmental sustainability. We support adults, mainly women living in low-income households, many from BAME communities who are long term unemployed, economically inactive and some have a diagnosed physical or mental health condition. We provide accessible pathways to skills transfer and training, which could lead into further education, employment, or start-up enterprises.