Welcome to the
Health Anchors
Learning Network
Registration for 2026/27 Anchor Exchange sessions are open
This series of lunchtime peer learning sessions is designed to bring people together to reflect, problem-solve, and share learning around effective anchor practice. Each session offers a chance to connect with others around the real challenges and opportunities in anchor work - shaped by the themes that matter most to you.
The County Durham Pound: driving social value and economic opportunity through regional partnership
Explore how a collective of local organisations formed the County Durham Pound, deliberately leveraging this scale as anchor institutions to drive inclusive economic opportunity, increasing employment support, and boosting health and wellbeing initiatives for the long-term benefit of the region.
Anchors, estates, and neighbourhood health centres
Read our newest blog exploring the seismic opportunity neighbourhood health poses for transforming how local estates and assets are put to use for community benefit for years to come and what this means for anchor organisations.