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- Monday to SaturdayIslington Adult Community Learning works in partnership with the voluntary and community sector to provide a network of neighbourhood learning centres across the borough. We offer a range of free courses for Islington residents who would like to improve their skills and life chances. Our…
- Monday to Friday, 10am to 5pmOffers advice and information about welfare rights and setting up a business; education and training classes including ESOL, computing, job seeking skills, interview techniques, CV writing, sign language, learn to type, sewing classes, jewellery making, glass painting, decoupage, keep fit, choir, iconography, lunch club, traditional Greek dance and after school activities (Greek…
- The Chinese Information and Advice Centre (CIAC) provides free information, advice and support to disadvantaged Chinese people in our community living in the UK.This includes supporting women and children who are victims, or at risk of domestic violence, working with prisoners to help reduce re-offending,…
- Community Language Support Services (CLSS) is a registered charity set up to assist speakers of community languages, especially refugees from east Africa and other Arabic speakers to access mainstream services such as health, education, welfare, housing, legal services.We provide support to members of this community…
- The Evelyn Oldfield Unit aims to provide, develop, and coordinate support services for marginalized and disadvantaged individuals and their communities – primarily those from migrant, refugee and asylum seeking backgrounds. They provide technical and managerial aid and support services for refugee community organisations in London…
- Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pmThis is a joint initiative between the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and the Home Office. Their trained professionals offer confidential advice and assistance to those who have been forced into marriage, people worried about friends or relatives, professionals working with actual or potential victims of…
- We work with local authorities by providing a specialist service in matching Muslim children in foster care with Muslim families, who have been trained, assessed, checked and approved to provide safe caring homes. This is done throughout London. Our main organisation, Foster Care Link, is…
- Mondays and Wednesday 9.30am to 2.30pmPlaces are available on free ESOL trainning organised by the Refugee Women's Association. Book your place now. Childcare and travel expenses paid.To register you will need proof of ID, address and benefits/income status.
- Stay and Play and Toy Library: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 10am to 12pm; After-School Club: Monday to Friday, 3.15-6.15pm; Holiday Playscheme (No playscheme Easter 2020): Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 6pm; Youth Club: Monday to Wednesday from 6.15-9.30pm; In Touch Project: Wednesday and Thursday, 10.30am to 3pm; Weekenders Club: Friday, Saturday, 11am to 3pm; Healthy Lifestyles for over 50s: Monday, 11am to 1pm; Young Parents Group and Toy Library: Friday 10am to 12 noon (contact Daniella Taylor, 07886 611103).Community Warm Space Offer: Drop-in, refreshments and wrap-around support. Wednesday at 11am – 2pm, option to join Afrikan Yoga. Hot drinks and soup provided. Octopus member Community Centres will be offering wrap-around support and activities at Warm Places over the winter months. We have worked together to…
- After-school and holidaysMonday to Friday, every holiday apart from ChristmasThe holiday playscheme runs each holiday, apart from Christmas. Parents can apply direct to schemes to enquire about fees and availability for childcare places. Families eligible for Lunch Bunch will be able to book some free sessions, depending on availability. Age: Reception to Year 6Hours:…
- Office hours 10am - 5pm on weekdays. The centre is closed during evenings & weekends except for special events or privately booked activities.Community Warm Space Offer: The Food Hub Tuesday Lunch Club is a social drop-in offering refreshments, a cooked lunch, advice and activities between 10am-2pm (4pm during winter months) during TERM TIME ONLY. The service does not run during school holidays. Other Services Hilldrop Community Centre is a community space for local people…
- Next courses: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9.45am to 2.45pm; 17 September to 10 October 2019 or 17 October to 12 December 2019Coronavirus Update Home Start Camden and Islington is currently providing the following services: Phone based parenting support and guidance for families with children under the age of 5 who are experiencing difficulties or are vulnerable. Monday – Friday 9am-4pm Referrals can be made via the website…
- Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5pm; Samira Project operates from Imece Monday to Wednesday.IMECE Women’s Centre is a women-only organisation that aims to empower Turkish, Kurdish and Cypriot Turkish women as well as BAMER (Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and Refugee) women by providing culturally sensitive specialist services. In particular, IMECE specialises in providing support for women experiencing harmful practices…
- Office hours: 9.30am to 5.30pm; 24 hour telephone service.The Iranian and Kurdish Women's Rights Organisation (IKWRO) provides advice and support to Middle Eastern women and girls living in the UK who are facing forced marriage, honour based violence, female genital mutilation and domestic abuse.
- Phone: Monday-Friday 9am-5pm; Drop-in: Monday-Friday 10am-5pm; Specialist advice on Wednesdays by appointment only - call 020 7833 2608 to bookIslington Bangladeshi Association is a grass root led registered charitable organisation based in South Islington. It is the only specific Bangladesh led organisation surviving in the borough of Islington and is now the main point of contact for the Bangladeshi community there. Resettlement offer: Islington…
- Tuesday, 10am to 3pm.Advice and support for asylum seekers. Esol classes are available. Please see website for further details.
- Monday to Friday, 10am to 5pm. Mother tongue supplementary school at Montem Primary School: Tuesday and Wednesday after school.Islington Somali Community has been supporting Somalis living, working or studying in the London Borough of Islington for over 30 years. They aim to provide a high-quality service that is accessible for all and can meet the ever-changing needs of our community; to work towards…
- Jewish Women's Aid (JWA) is a registered national charity for Jewish women and their children affected by domestic abuse. It provides information and support to victims of domestic violence in the Jewish community.
- JCWI's overarching objective is to relieve poverty and hardship among immigrants and refugees by promoting their human, economic and civil rights. Our mission is to eliminate discrimination in this sphere. Resettlement offer: JCWI can provide: Legal advice. A caseworker. Guides, handbooks, and legal reference material. …
- Provides safe, temporary accomodation for Asian women and their children escaping domestic violence. Also provides advice, outreach work and resettlement support.
- Open Monday to Friday from 9.30 am to 5.30pm. Telephone Helpline : Out of working hours serviceKMEWO provide support services to vulnerable women and girls from the Kurdish, Middle Eastern and North African communities in London and Islington. Find a way to include different contact details – in box at the bottom? Resettlement offer: You can look at KMEWO’s timetable of…
- WeekendsThe Kurdish Children and Youth Centre run weekend classes and fun activities at Manor Gardens.
- Information Centre: Monday and Thursday 9:30am to 5:30pm, Wednesday 9:30am to 1:00pm. Refuge: 9:30am to 5:30pm or by calling our emergency line. Samira Project: Tuesday, Wednesday, ThursdayLatin American Women’s Aid runs the only two refuges in Europe by and for Latin American women and children fleeing gender-based violence. We also offer holistic and intersectional services, providing everything a BME woman needs to recover from abuse and live empowered lives. We welcome…
- Monday to Friday 10am to 6pm (closed between 1-2pm). Monday Drop In: from 10am. Arrive 30 minutes early if possible.Latin American Women’s Rights Service (LAWRS) offers advice, advocacy, information and counselling services to Latin American women living in the UK. LAWRS provides information, casework support and advocacy on housing, money and debt, employment and access to welfare support. ESOL classes and targeted training is…
- Do you want to learn to speak English? (ESOL) To join an English class, contact us for more information. A teacher will check your English speaking, listening, reading and writing and help you to find a class. There are 5 levels of ESOL. Assessments are…
- Coronavirus Update Maa Shanti is currently running the following services: Providing support to single Asian mums via the phone and WhatsApp with staff who are able to speak Bengali, Urdu, Punjabi and Hindi. They are setting up groups via WhatsApp with the aim to provide live workshops such…
- Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pmManor Gardens’ vision is to build strong communities where all people have good health, resilience and opportunity. Across our services staff, we speak 17 additional languages other than English: Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tamil, Tigrinya…
- Islington Council education department supports mother tongue and supplementary schools. Languages covered include: Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Farsi, Greek, Kurdish, Spanish, Somali, Sudanese, Swahili, Tigrigna and Turkish. These schools are run after school and at the weekend in schools and community locations. There are also extra…
- Monday to Friday from 6:00pm to 9:00pm; Saturday and Sunday from 12:00pm to 12:00am.The Muslim Youth Helpline (MYH) operates a free phone confidential telephone support and email enquiries service for young people in need. MYH is continually developing policies and practices to ensure that the helpline provides a highly efficient and professional service.
- Monday, Tuesday, 9:30am to 8pm ; Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: 9:30am to 5:30pmCoronavirus support: Nafsiyat can offer Islington residents psychological support and therapy, from therapists who work across different cultures and languages, delivering therapy in more than 20 languages. For more information call 020 7263 6947 or email admin@nafsiyat.org.uk . --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Usual Service: Nafsiyat provides individual, couple…
- Monday to Friday from 11:00am to 18:00pmThe North London Central Mosque offers counselling sessions and courses including ESOL classes.
- Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm, drop-in and enquiries.We offer a warm welcome and a programme of support and training for local parents and carers that suits individual needs. This service is for Islington parents only, if you live, work or have a child in an Islington School. You must be a Parent/Carer/Grandparent…
- Refugee Women's Association (RWA) aims to empower refugee women; to promote and raise awareness of the public and decision-makers about the needs and aspirations of refugee women as well as about their positive contributions to UK society and to provide a model of good practice,…
- Renaisi provides support for local communities with employment, neighbourhood improvement, community engagement and employment and support for migrant communities and schools. Renaisi works in schools providing highly skilled Bilingual Parent Support Advisers (BPSA) who speak a range of community languages including Somali, Bengali, Turkish, Kurdish, Portugese,…
- Monday to Thursday, 10am to 1pmSomali Education Centre (SEC) provides advice and support for disadvantaged children and young people from Ethnic Minority families on primary and secondary education schools through supplementary and homework club projects. We also advocate for school exclusions and aiming to improve the educational achievement of ethnic minority…
- Monday to Friday 9:00am to 10:00pm Main service of worship: Sunday 10.30am; St Augustine’s Playgroup (for 2 1/2 - 5 year olds) : Monday – Friday, 9.30 – 1.30 pm Hippo Babies: (for babies under 1 and parents) Friday, 10.30am to 12pm; Hippo Club: (for pre-school children, + parents/carers) Thursday, 10am to 12pm; Groundbreakers Club (for 7 – 11 year olds): 3rd Sunday of the month 5.00 – 6.15 pmThe Church runs a creche, and age-related teaching groups on Sunday during the morning service. During term-time, the church runs Hippo Babies, Hippo Club (toddlers), Playgroup and Groundbreakers Club. In the summer there is a week long Holiday Club. Each autumn, there is a Christianity…
- Afruca promotes the welfare of the African child in the UK.
- Provides information on human rights organisation for refugees and asylum seekers.
- Support services for Asian women and children.
- Our team of advocates work with over 1000 parents per year to retain young people in mainstream education. We are passionate about all young people being given the opportunity to fulfil their potential.
- Information about immigration and visa applications.
- Laamiga is a women's mentoring and training programme, particularly for ethnic minority women, to help women gain self confidence and improve their chances of finding a job.
- Website of the national charity, that provides practical advice and assistance to newly-arrived asylum seekers and supports their long term settlement through community development work.
- Specialist advice and support for African-Caribbean and Asian women experiencing violence and abuse.
- Support, advocacy and accommodaton for trafficked women; that is women who have been brought into England or Wales to be exploited in some way.
- Monday to Friday 9am to 5pmEmployability and job support for women from Black, Asian, minority ethnic and refugee communities. The project is designed to increase women's employability, confidence and self-esteem offering personalised one-to-one support, pre-employment and vocational training.