Online Directory
This is a directory of voluntary and community organisations based in Westminster and/or working with Westminster residents.
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Protege DNA
Protege works with beneficiaries to help them created tailored learning that is responsive to their complex and divergent learning and skills needs. We work with refugee services, hospitals, specialist schools, mental health teams, youth offending teams, local authorities and other.... We also…
Puppet Theatre Barge/ Art of the Puppet
The Puppet Theatre Barge is a unique, fifty-seat marionette theatre on a converted barge in London. The theatre presents puppet shows for children and adults and is moored in Little Venice throughout the year and in Richmond-upon-Thames during the summer. The company produces shows taken from…
Pursuing Independent Paths
Pursuing Independent Paths (PiP) supports adults with learning disabilities and autism to achieve their potential. The charity provides high-quality training, educational and recreational activities for local adults so that they can be as independent as possible and live fulfilling lives.
Rainbow Communities
We are a new “by and for” LGBT+ charity, supporting and empowering vulnerable members of the LGBT+ community. Working across generational and cultural divides, we focus on what unites our community – a need for understanding, for acceptance and inclusivity , to promote equality , foster the…
Re-engage
Re-engage is a national charity supporting people aged 75 and over who are experiencing loneliness or social isolation. We provide: – Afternoon tea groups – monthly Sunday get-togethers in volunteer hosts’ homes, with transport provided. – Call Companions – regular phone calls offering friendship…
Real Action
Real Action is an independent, community-led, specialist educational charity. We are renowned for our projects, providing fast-acting, effective courses of basic education, especially in literacy for children and adults, and the English language. These transform the prospects of people living in…
Recycle School Uniform CIC
Recycle School Uniform CIC, collects donated school uniforms, launder, and re-sells at an affordable price to families who might be struggling financially and are significantly disadvantaged. A percentage of the funds generated from the re-sale will go towards schools and youth clubs around the…
Refuge Network Uk
We are a poverty alleviation and community empowerment nonprofit promoting equitable access to food, housing, healthcare, education, and an adequate standard of living for individuals and families. Refuge Network UK works with homeless people, rough sleepers and individuals and families living in…
Regents Park Music Festival Charitable Fund
The Regent’s Park Music Festival will bring alive the Bandstand with music every Sunday afternoon and Bank Holiday Monday from 19 June to 18 September. In addition again this year we are going to have Saturday Concerts from the Broadwalk Bandstand across from the Park’s Broadwalk Cafe…
Resonate Arts (Westminster Arts)
Resonate Arts is Westminster Arts’ pioneering programme of innovative arts based activities and experiences for people living with dementia in the boroughs of Westminster, Kensington & Chelsea and Hammersmith & Fulham. We believe engagement in the arts and creativity has enduring…
Response Community Projects
Response Community Projects is a independent charity run by a Council elected from amongst its members. Its purpose is to provide support and resources to the local community in and around Earls Court, especially to those disadvantaged in any way. Housing over 400 visitors a week, this makes it one…
Riverside Street Buddies
Street Buddies works with entrenched rough sleepers in Westminster who has stopped working with any agencies.
Rumshop Cultural Club
To promote the arts and culture of the Caribbean among Londoners and to support the Diaspora in celebrating the heritage and history on which their presence is founded. To celebrate national and historic events of importance to its members. To arrange social, cultural, welfare, workshops and…
Shifaa Healing Heart Counselling CIC
Shifaa Healing Hearts Counselling CIC (SHHC) is a community-based counselling and psychotherapy service providing culturally attuned mental health support to individuals and families across Westminster and surrounding areas. We recognise that emotional wellbeing cannot be separated from culture,…
Shifaá Healing Hearts Counselling
We are a community-based counselling service offering free, culturally informed therapy. Rooted in compassion, inclusion, and representation, SHHC supports individuals from all walks of life, with a focus on racialised and marginalised communities. We offer 10 free therapy sessions with an initial…
Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company
Shobana Jeyasingh Dance is a Contemporary Dance Company based in Westminster. We produce and tour dance works, and engage a wide audience through our Learning and Participation programme. We push the possibilities of dance beyond storytelling to stimulate thought, reaction and sensation through…
Sign Health
Sign Health is the UK's only sign-language based service to help deaf people who have experienced or are experiencing domestic abuse. Deaf women are twice at risk of domestic abuse than hearing women. When sign language is the main way you communicate it can be very hard to get help. We offer a…
Single Homeless Project (Westminster Mental Health Floating Support)
At SHP Westminster Floating Support, we offer residents of the borough personalised, short-term support to help maintain their well-being within their own home. Our service is responsive, friendly and flexible - and provides both individual and group support for people who have a range of needs or…
SKC Space CIC
Adebo provides a safe space for the local community to come together and be creative through sewing, needle work, crochet and knitting. They will learn new skills for up cycling, which will have a positive impact on the environment, and will be able to enhance skills and pass their knowledge onto…
Skills Active Forward - SAF-UK
Skills Active Forward (SAF-UK). is a community-based and non-governmental organisation that is registered in the UK (Charity Commission No. 1124643), Kenya, and Somalia. The Organization is led by educated diasporas with a strong sense of belonging to Somalia. SAF-UK has a proven history of…
Skills and Training Network
Skills and Training Network (STN) is a grassroots intercultural organisation that operates in three North London boroughs. We are founded and led by professional women from different ethnic backgrounds that all have lived experiences of disadvantage. This enables them to have an empathetic service…
Social Links
Social Links was founded by two friends with long experience of working in homeless services. They realised something: homeless services are often viewed as existing outside the community rather than as part of it. In a homeless hostel, someone might spend a lot of time alone in their room. Even…
Sola Technologies Ltd
Sola helps older adults find local movement and community: classes, physiotherapy, recovery and social activity that suit them, and helps their families support them. We build for people most services overlook: those who want to start but don't know where, or don't want to go alone. A pilot runs in…
Solace Women’s Aid
We’re Solace. For more than 40 years we’ve supported women and children in London to build safe and strong lives. Futures free from male abuse and violence. Whatever form violence comes in, from rape and trafficking to relationships based on psychological or financial control, we know…
Somali Pressure Group
SPG is Global Peace building and Conflict resolution for Somalia, we run Youth empowerment through Democracy, capacity building through training, workshops culturally sensitive and tailored to have a leadership scales , promoting community role models in the UK, we also run Sport projects for…
Somerset House Trust
Somerset House is a new kind of arts centre in the heart of London, designed for today’s audiences and creatives. Offering a diverse and dynamic public programme of contemporary arts and culture, we are also a home to a large community of creative businesses, artists and makers, including Somerset…
South West Fest
SouthWestFest is a fusion of great ideas, fun activities and engaging events. We aim to produce a community festival to showcase arts, culture and support voluntary sector groups and community services in South Westminster.
Sovereign Network Group
Sovereign Network Group are a longstanding social landlord in Westminster, with around 1000 properties concentrated in North Paddington. We have a significant community investment body, which soon be a legally separate Community Foundation. https://www.sng.org.uk/about-us/community-foundation
Sport for Confidence
Sport for Confidence is a unique, award winning pioneering organisation, driving the provision of inclusive sporting opportunities in mainstream leisure facilities. People come to Sport for Confidence sessions to experience the physical, mental and social benefits of activity and exercise, all…
Sport4Health
Sport4Health supports disadvantaged marginalised communities to have better physical and mental health wellbeing through a range of sport and social activities.
SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity
Who we help - our support covers both regulars and reserves in the Royal Navy, the Royal Marines, the British Army and the Royal Air Force and their families, including anyone who has completed National Service. We know and understand the unique demands of service life, whether in the UK or…
St Andrew's Club
It can be tough for a young person growing up in South Westminster. Around 700 members depend on St Andrew's Club each year in our ‘neutral’ environment, that isn’t part of any one housing estate. We help give local young people, many of them on tight family budgets, the chance to thrive and…
St Giles & St George Education
We give grants to organisations who are improving the educational opportunities of children & young people from birth to age 25, who live (or attend school) in south Westminster and a small part of Camden.
St James's Church
St James's is a Church of England church in the heart of London, near Piccadilly Circus. Rooted in God's earth, we envision a just society and a creative, open-hearted church. Our projects include Feast and Sunday Breakfast, which are weekly meals for over 100 people experiencing…
St Martin in the Fields
The St Martin-in-the-Fields Charity helps homeless and vulnerably housed people. We are best known for our annual BBC Radio 4 Christmas Appeal with St Martin-in-the-Fields. The money we raise directly supports people through The Connection at St Martin-in-the-Fields and across the UK through the…
St. Mungos
We provide support to people across almost every London borough. Our support ranges from emergency housing, opportunities to learn new skills, like our Putting Down Roots gardening programme, through to innovative accommodation projects, like Housing First. We also provide similar services in…
St. Vincent's Family Project
St. Vincent's Family Project aims to resource young families in Westminster especially where there are difficulties. The Project addresses the issues of parenting, child welfare and social exclusion by providing services for parents, children and the creative art therapies to Westminster…
Step Change Studios
Step Change Studios is an award-winning, pioneering dance company committed to making dance accessible for everyone. We offer fun, engaging opportunities for disabled and non-disabled people to dance. We cater to different ages, abilities and needs. We provide regular dance classes; deliver dance…
Street Souls - Emmaus Greenwich
Twice a month Street Souls, offers support to anyone who is struggling financially, from families who cannot afford food, retired people experiencing loneliness and social exclusion, to people who are sleeping rough. We provide food, other items and signposting to local services.
Street Storage
Street Storage provides those experiencing homelessness with free, secure storage for their belongings, including personal documents. In turn allowing people experiencing homelessness physical respite from carrying their belongings, peace of mind and opening up opportunities to be supported to take…
Streetwise Opera
Streetwise Opera is an award-winning national charity that uses music to help people make positive changes in their lives. Working with people who are or have been homeless, we run workshop programmes across England, stage critically-acclaimed operas.
Strides Coaching Spaces
Strides Coaching Spaces, in partnership with Westminster City Council, offers people in work their choice of an Airbnb or homestay for up to 3 months anywhere in London. Alongside this they have access to professional, quality coaching, to help them make sense of what’s happening in their…
Sudanese Nubian Association
The Sudanese Nubian Association was established in 1999 and registered as a charity with the Charity Commission in 2006. All of our Seven Trustees are working as volunteers along with Association’s members. The main purposes of the Association is to help our community by providing relief and…
Sudanese Supplementary School
A supplementary school, working with children aged 4-16+ years of age. The school offers high-quality community language (Arabic as mother tongue) teaching. Emphasis on the National Curriculum by providing lessons in English, Maths and General Science. We also • Engage with…
Sudanese Women's Union
The charity’s object (“the objects”) Everyone is equally entitled to all rights and freedoms without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth, or other status. 1. Sex Discrimination: It is…
Sudanese Youth Club
The Sudanese Youth Club is for British-Sudanese young people and is deemed to be extremely vital to the process of including young Sudanese people (2nd Generation) into the community, the enhancement of their leadership skills and their positive contribution to the overall wellbeing of the…