Pamper Indulge Give (PIG)
PIG's mission is to introduce young children aged 5 to 11 to skills that will widen their vision and opportunities as they grow into adulthood. We will do this by teaching them about health, wellbeing and fitness, by empowering our young children to make better decisions and be more open to positive outlooks for the future. Whilst inspiring our children to become role models in our community, they are also having fun and experiencing unique adventures.
Skills Enterprise
Skills Enterprise supports Newham’s residents experiencing barriers, from homelessness, debt, language and food insecurity, to unemployment, low income digital exclusion. We predominantly serves BAME residents, and also helps them address the racial discrimination they face when seeking support.
We do our work through one-to-one appointments, classes, workshops, individual support and celebrating together as a community.
Resistance Kitchen
Resistance Kitchen is a community kitchen sharing hot meals, fresh fruit & vegetables, and home cooking essentials like rice, pasta, sauce, tuna, cereals with those in need in our local community of Croydon & Lambeth in South London. We operate a food stall near Norbury Railway station every Saturday 2pm where all are welcome, no referrals, no vouchers, no questions asked. We also campaign for social justice as we believe food banks are not a solution, systemic change is needed to alleviate poverty.
The Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul
A family of several charities based around the country.
https://www.dcsvpservices.org/our-charities
Vincentian Care Plus
Providing domiciliary care to isolated elderly people across the borough of Westminster, Vincentian Care Plus (VCP) has been tackling loneliness and supporting people to continue to live in their own homes since being launched in 2004.
Their aim is to offer practical and personal care and support services to enable older people to remain as independent as possible in their own homes. As a small and developing ‘not for profit’ Home Care provider, VCP provides its services either privately or through Social Services.
https://vincentiancareplus.org.uk
St Joseph Services
Providing care and support services for adults with a learning disability for over 95 years.
https://www.stjosephsservices.co.uk
Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants
They provide legal advice on many aspects of immigration.
https://www.jcwi.org.uk/Pages/Category/legal-advice
The Unity Project
They support people to remove no recourse to public funds conditions from their leave to remain.
They run weekly casework sessions every Tuesday where they provide appointments and workshops for people with NRPF to help make ‘Change of Conditions’ applications for recourse to public funds. This means that people can access the welfare safety net in times of crisis or hardship.
https://www.unity-project.org.uk/about-tup
The Bridge
The Bridge work to reduce inequalities in the health and wellbeing of women living and working in London, aiming to remove barriers and generate change.
We support women who are living with anxiety, depression or stress-related illness, those who are feeling isolated or who need help to lead a healthier life.
Projects:
Santé Refugee Mental Health Access Point
Santé's mission is to support refugees and asylum seekers in the London region, particularly those with mental health issues, to gain equal access to health and other essential services.
https://www.santeproject.org.uk
Church Tenements Charity
The charity provides one-off, small, grants for educational purposes to young people under the age of 25 years either resident within, or studying at an establishment within, the London Borough of Croydon. Grants are awarded to those demonstrating financial hardship, for items such as books, stationery, uniforms, travel to and from school/college and music tuition and instruments.
https://grants-search.turn2us.org.uk/grant/church-tenements-charity-education-branch-12683
Rooted Finance
Rooted Finance are a Money and Debt advice charity, providing quality assured, professional and inclusive advice.'
Debt Free London
Free debt and budgeting help line. Run by a consortium of London charities. Advice available 24/7 on line, by phone or in person.
Bow Community Hub
Bow Community Hub boasts a range of daily physical activities, massages and arts and crafts for all to enjoy including youth groups.
Southwark Travellers Action
Works with children & young people from Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities who live in households on a very low income in Southwark.
Bromley Mencap
Children and Family services for those with learning disability and those with autism in the borough,
The Kids Network
A community of children and volunteer mentors connecting through fun, friendship and hardship for positive social change.
Spiral Skills
Services centred around the needs and values of young people currently exploring their pathways into work. Provide employment mentoring and training to young people aged 16-24
Pepys Social Supermarket
The Pepys Social Supermarket (PSS) operates every Friday between 11.30 and 2.30pm for members within the PSS catchment area of SE8. Members pay £3.50 for a weekly shop for an average basket of items worth approximately £25 at retail prices.
South London Counselling Service
Provides impartial and confidential services in guidance and free therapeutic counselling services for children, young people and adults on means tested basis. For those living working, training or studying in South London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, Lambeth and Southwark.
Youth First Lewisham
Free to use youth service for 8-18 year olds. (25 for those with a disability). All year round after-school and holiday provision (daytime) delivered at our adventure playgrounds, youth clubs and a street-based team. 1:1 work, targeted and themed based informal education for young people that live, go to school/college in the Borough of Lewisham.
Commonside Community Development Trust
The Step Forward Programme aims to support parents and carers with every aspect of family life, from children’s health, school and behaviour, money worries, housing difficulties, stressed family relations and any other everyday aspects where talking it through and finding practical help will make life easier and more enjoyable.
Sickle Cell Society (N)
National organisation providing support and information for those living with Sickle Cell and campaigning for better access to treatment and better knowledge.
Newham Community Project
Mosque based support for students facing difficulty in paying rent, provides food support for families and individuals, runs a children's scout group and other activities.
The Pentecostal Credit Union
All members must have an association with the Pentecostal Church and can be supported with debt advice and fair loans.
North London Credit Union
Supporting anyone living or working in Barnet, Enfield, Haringey or Waltham Forest or in the postcode areas of EN6, EN7, EN8, EN9, EN10 or EN11 with debt or needing a fair loan.
London Mutual Credit Union
Supporting anyone living or working in Southwark, Lambeth, Westminster or Camden with debt or needing a fair loan.
London Plus Credit Union
Supporting anyone living or working in the London boroughs of: Hammersmith & Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea, Wandsworth, Hounslow or Richmond. Or living in Westminster with debt or needing a fair loan.
London Community Credit Union
Supporting anyone living, working or studying in Hackney, Haringey, Islington, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest or the City of London with debt or needing a fair loan.
London Capital Credit Union
Supporting anyone living or working in Brent, Barnet, Camden, City of London, Enfield, Hackney, Haringey, Islington or Waltham Forest with debt or needing a fair loan.
Lewisham Plus Credit Union
Supporting anyone with debt or needing a fair loan and living, working or studying in Lewisham or Bromley or in the SE19 post code
Greenwich and Bexley Credit Union
Supporting anyone with debt or needing fair loans, living, working or studying in the London boroughs of Greenwich and Bexley, or in any DA postcode.
CroydonPlus Credit Union
Credit Union serving Croydon, Merton and Sutton and able to support with debt advice and fair loans.
United Borders
Provide services to young people who find themselves in moments or
periods of crisis in their lives.
Off the Record
Youth counselling service for young people aged 14 to 25 including a specialist service for young refugees.
Croydon Drop In
Supports young people aged 11 to 25 years old and families who live, work or study in Croydon.
Cassanadra Centre
Provides advice, support and counselling services for young people and families who are directly or indirectly involved in abusive relationships.
Carers Information Service Croydon
Information and advice service for carers living in, or caring for someone who lives in, Croydon. Run carers support groups.
Women and Girls Network
Supporting women and girls across London affected by gendered violence. Includes the West London Rape Crisis Centre, advice and information on gendered violence London wide and West London young women's support.
Acorns2Oaks
A20 provide childcare facilities and extended children’s and community services including women's groups and a food bank to the residents in the Broad Green Ward and the wider Community.
Access Music Media
AMM is dedicated to helping young people who face substantial barriers to getting into/back into education, employment or training through music and sound recording.
A2ndVoice
Local parents/carers groups for those living with and caring for a child or adult on the Autistic Spectrum.
Melanin Health & Wellness CIC
Supporting all those with melanin to improve and maintain their health, wellbeing and quality of life.
Babyzone
Drop in space for babies (0-6 months and 6-12 months) and toddlers (1-3 years) to play. We also have specific play sessions and classes for parents and babies and toddlers running throughout the day. Everything is free of charge and no booking needed.
Be Enriched
South London-based charity that uses food to bring joy and connection to the socially excluded, develop skills in young people, build communities and grow future generations.
Stay Safe East
Provides a domestic violence support service for deaf and disabled people in Waltham Forest and Newham.
Respond
Work therapeutically with adults with autism and LD challenging sexual and domestic abuse and violence and other forms of trauma.
Latin American Women’s Aid
Domestic violence support run by and for women from Latin American Communities
Kiran Project
Provide a safe space where Asian women and their children living in and around Waltham Forest and overcoming Domestic Violence can identify options and develop skills that enable them to take control of their lives.
IMECE
IMECE DV and forced marriage service primarily for Turkish, Kurdish and Turkish Cypriot women and girls.
Galop
Specialist service for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans suffering domestic abuse or other violence support.
Ashiana Women's Network
Domestic violence and advice service for South Asian, Turkish and Iranian women.
South London Healthy Homes
Energy advice and support for residents living in Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Kingston, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Richmond upon Thames, Sutton, Wandsworth or Southwark who are vulnerable to the cold.
Shine London
Winter Warmth and Utilities advice both by phone and through home visits initially for Islington but now working in a number of other boroughs.
London Green Doctors
Energy support including telephone and home visit assessments for people living in Barnet, Bexley, Brent, Bromley, Camden, Ealing, Greenwich, Hammersmith & Fulham, Hounslow, Kensington & Chelsea, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark and Westminster
JDS Striving for Excellence
Supporting young people to access the help they need and to get their voices heard.
Traveller Movement (N)
Information, advice and a specialist domestic violence service for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people.
Bin Knives Save Lives, Ilford
Working with children and parents to avoid knife crime. Free knife collection and disposal service in and around Ilford and Redbridge.
Voices of Hope
Community organisation challenging poverty specifically through their Brite Box food project.
Restorative Justice for All (RJ4All) International Institute
Using the values of restorative justice, delivering community-led projects focusing on social inclusion, and the empowerment of civil society and its most disadvantaged groups.
The Peel Institute
Community organisation serving Clerkenwell. Activities for young people and families.
Red Roots Incubator
Youth Project bridging the gap between education and employment in the creative industries.
Working Chance (N)
Supporting women within the criminal justice system to gain employment and move on with their lives.
Peer2Peer Education
Support to young people by young people through education. Facilitate workshops in schools on social issue, that are often relevant in their local community. Arrange work placements for disadvantaged young people in fields they may not have access to otherwise.
Girls United Football
Sports organisation focusing on girls from low income families empowering girls in local communities through football practices that go beyond the tactical, to develop confident leaders, providing more girls with the opportunity to succeed, on and off the pitch.
New Cross Gate Trust
Supports the local community to learn new skills, improve their employment prospects, improve health and well-being, feel safe and supported, develop self-confidence and social networks and access relevant services according to their needs.
Sutton Carers Centre
Support for carers across the borough including both adult and younger carers. Offering a wide range of services.
Thinking Works
Fuel poverty service. Will undertake home visits and support where possible in South West London
Harrow Association of Somali Voluntary Organisations
Dedicated to supporting Somali residents in Harrow. Supplementary school, advice and information.
ABC Parents
Supporting families attending Paediatric AandE at the North Middlesex Hospital to ensure issues relating to low income are addressed alongside presenting health issues.
Jigsaw4u
Wide range of support for vulnerable children and families in Merton and Sutton. Including loss and bereavement support, parenting support and work with young people who go missing.
Christian Care Association
Family befriending, provides furniture and baby and toddler items to families in need in Merton.
Kingston Domestic Violence Hub
Free, confidential, non-judgemental and independent support to anyone who is experiencing domestic abuse in the borough.
Brite Box
Helps families across Richmond, Kingston and Southwark to address the growing issue of food insecurity. Provides weekly food deliveries and additional food related services.
Refugee Action Kingston
A local charity, supporting refugees and asylum seekers in the Kingston area.
GrowBaby
Provides good quality, new and second-hand, baby clothes and equipment (up to 5 years), completely free of charge, to anyone who needs it, regardless of their income, background, or faith.