The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word OUTREACH
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More clues leading to the result OUTREACH
- Open University right to get in tutor for community work
- Involvement with community, having dismissed a head without right
- Transcend extravagant endless pain
- Oxford University tutor embraces reading work in community
- Widening of appeal in a court, he resolved
- Unconventional composer’s topless community work
- Transcend expression of pain obtaining endless pleasure
- Fantastic church defending a work of a charity
- Go beyond social welfare?
- Forbidden to come to community welfare programme
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The straight part
We know that "Transcend" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case transcend = outreach.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does OUTREACH mean?
OUTREACH noun- The act of reaching out.
- The extent or length of one's reach.
- The act or practice of visiting and providing services (of a charity, church, or other organization) to people who might not otherwise have access to those services.
- To reach further than.
- To surpass or exceed.
- To go too far.
- To provide charitable or religious services to people who would otherwise not have access to those services.