JDS Striving For Excellence
JDS Striving For Excellence are looking for any organisation who are willing to support them or donated some toiletries or essential kit or hygiene products for youths for low income families. If you are able to help please contact jds2project@gmail.com
The Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul
A family of several charities based around the country.
https://www.dcsvpservices.org/our-charities
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
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.
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
The Somerville Youth Centre
The Somerville is a youth centre and adventure playground and works with young people and with parents and families.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Galop
Specialist service for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans suffering domestic abuse or other violence support.
JDS Striving for Excellence
Supporting young people to access the help they need and to get their voices heard.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Renewal Programme
Support for those, in Newham, who are facing multiple challenges; whether they’re a carer who needs wellbeing support, a migrant or refugee without access to public funds, an individual suffering with homelessness or experiencing poverty or a young person without direct access to learning pathways.
Haven - Domestic Abuse Network
Haven supports, assists and empowers young people and adults who have suffered incest, childhood sexual violence or and/or abuse, domestic violence, physical, mental and emotional abuse, rape and torture.
Just for Kids Law (N)
Support children and young people with direct casework that helps them to overcome problems they face, and use evidence from our practice to campaign for wider reform.
Afghanistan and Central Asian Association
Women's Project, Skills Workshops, Family Support, Welfare and Housing Advice for the Afghan community.
Street League
Use sport to support young people not in education, training or employment to gain skills and into jobs.
IKWRO
Culturally specific support, advocacy and counselling for women and girls from the Middle East and Afghanistan,
Gujarati Samaj (Bexley)
To assist the Gujarati community with education in field of language, health, welfare rights, housing, immigration
Fern Street Settlement (All Hallows Bow)
Through activities, working for a better Bow where families live life to the full, children thrive and our community is strong
Youth Realities
Youth-led organisation addressing teenage relationship abuse through creative education and specialist, survivor-centred support
Kinship (N)
Advice and information for kinship carers (non-parental family members such as grandparents looking after a child)
Well Child (N)
Produce a list of useful resources and are offering practical support to get disabled children or those with a terminal illness any specific help they need.
The Mix
The Mix is the UK’s leading support service for young people. We are here to help you take on any challenge you’re facing - from mental health to money, from homelessness to finding a job, from break-ups to drugs. Talk to us via our online community, on social, through our free, confidential helpline or our counselling service.
The Nest
Free & confidential mental wellbeing advice and support for young people aged 11 – 25 in Southwark
Terence Higgins Trust
Offer free online counselling for those over 18 and living with HIV or worried about their sexual health
Spectra
Offer LGBT+ specific online sexual health advice and an online LGBTQ+ youth session every Friday
Single Homelessness Project
Single Homeless Project, a London-wide charity working to prevent homelessness and help vulnerable and socially excluded people to transform their lives.
Shoreditch Trust
Focus is on working with people who experience health, economic and social inequality.
Shout The Mix and Young Minds
Provide one platform for those under 25 looking for mental health support
SA-UK (Social Anxiety UK)
Volunteer led organisation providing a range of support and on and off line social groups for those with social anxiety.
Rainbow Across Borders
Croydon based group providing support and friendship for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers
Oasis
Aimed at young people 14-35 years who are struggling with unusual experiences like hearing voices or feeling paranoid
No Panic Helpline
Helplines for anxiety disorders panic attacks etc. 0844 9674848 Youth Helpline 0330 606 1174 (for 13 to 20 year olds open Mon to Thurs 4pm-6pm)
NAZ
BAME run sexual health support agency, counselling as well as other practical support for the LGBTQ+ BAME community and others.
Metro Charity
Promote health and wellbeing to anyone experiencing issues relating to sexuality, gender, equality, diversity and identity, and use our unique insight from these transformative services and our diverse heritage to influence decision makers and to effect positive change.
LGBT Jigsaw
A consortium of advice agencies supporting homeless or potentially homeless LGBT+ young people
Lifeline Project
Christian led. Focuses on empowering and enhancing the lives of those people most isolated and vulnerable, building confidence and helping them to learn new skills, so that they may fully live their lives and become a part of their community. Mentoring for children and young people.
Lives not Knives
Dedicated to preventing youth violence in London and aim to do so through offering tailored mentorship and advice to the young people aged 9-21 in our community who most need our support.
Kids Health
Lots of information for children teens and parents relating to health diseases, body image etc
HYP (Healthy Young People)
Health and wellbeing service for under 25's. Provides advice and support around sexual health, drugs and alcohol and general health and wellbeing. The service also provides emergency and ongoing contraception, testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections (STIs), condom c-card scheme support and treatment for drugs and alcohol misuse and wellbeing support.
Healthy Living Project
Christian led. Aim to improve education, overcome social isolation and improve the health and well being of all those that engage with our projects. We are particularly focussed on meeting the needs of the Homeless & Socially Isolated, Children & Families.
Hackney Quest
Aims to give young people, families and members of the community the practical and emotional support that they need to develop and pursue their aspirations and deal positively with life’s challenges against a backdrop of social and economic disadvantage.

