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Upcoming East London Events

  • Sep
    07
    2010
    FeMail: Suffragettes and the Post - A free exhibition

    FeMAIL: Suffragettes and the Post, explores how suffragettes saw the Post Office as both a means of mass communication and a symbol of the oppressive male Government; as friend and simultaneously foe.

  • Sep
    12
    2010
    Spitalfields Show & Green Fair

    Annual Horticultural Show displaying fruit, flowers and vegetables, home-made produce and handicrafts plus a whole range of stalls run by groups and organisations with Fairtrade goods, healthy food, healing therapies and projects raising environmental awareness. 

  • Sep
    13
    2010
    Rhyme Time

    Help your child to develop their concentration through books, action and finger songs and nursery rhymes. Fun for under fives. Term time only Mondays 10.30 - 11.30am

  • Sep
    13
    2010
    Wii Club

    Fill the time after school with sports and quiz based games on Nintendo Wii. For ages 8 years and over. Mondays 5 - 7pm

  • Sep
    18
    2010
    Newham Waterfront Festival

    FREE waterfront festival featuring a sumptuous selection of food and fun for the whole family, coinciding with the exciting final stage of the cycling Tour of Britain. Visit the website for updates and details of how you can register for a free place in the pre-race Tour Ride

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East London Organisations

Alevi Culture Centre & Cem Evi

Community centre for Turkish and Kurdish Alevi Muslims, including refugees and asylum seekers. Provides advice on benefits, health, housing rights, immigration and racial harassment. Also provides services for older people, dancing and folk classes, help with job search activities, ESOL classes and Turkish, maths and cultural classes for young people.

APASENTH - Asian Parents Association
The Asian Parents Association for special educational needs in Tower Hamlets provide information, advice, advocacy, counselling and other services to Asian parents and carers, and in particular to Bangladeshi children and young people with learning disabilities.
Hackney Citizens Advice Bureau
Hackney CAB offers advice on issues which include welfare benefits, financial problems, employment, and family issues.   Late appointments are available on Monday and Wednesday 5pm-8pm.
Iranian and Kurdish Women's Rights Organisation

Advice, support, advocacy and referral in Arabic, Kurdish, Turkish, Dari and Farsi to women, girls (or  couples) living in Britain

Kiran Asian Women's Aid

Provides safe, temporary accomodation for Asian women and their children escaping domestic violence. Also provides advice, outreach work and resettlement support.

Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm

Legal Advice Centre (University House)
The Legal Advice Centre is able to offer help to those people who find they cannot get legal advice elsewhere. Advice given on benefits, money issues, housing and worker rights,  family issues. Service available to people in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and surrounding areas.
Mudchute Farm.

The Farm is one of the largest City Farms in Europe, with a collection of British rare breeds and currently have over 200 animals and fowl. These range from horses and ponies grazing in the outer enclosures and fields, to the smaller which are kept next to the main courtyard in a 'Pets Corner'. Farm staff are on site to support 'Animal Encounter' sessions, providing hands on contact with farm animals for people of all ages. Entry to the Farm is FREE, and it is open every day of the week, from 9:30 - 4:00. An area is provided for eating your own picnic.

Newham Asian Women's Project

This organisation supports Asian women who have experienced domestic violence. They have drop in sessions, counselling services and training for women to increase their opportunities and improve their chances of employment. They also have an advice and information service and can offer emergency safe housing with support for women to move on to independent living.

Portsoken Community Centre
The Portsoken Community Centre has wireless Internet connection throughout and has twelve laptops that are used for training, Job search and regular youth groups.  The Centre is also a registered UK Online Centre and British Computer Society testing centre. The centre has been used for a wide range of community activities including regular weekly sessions of exercise, computer training, a sewing class and youth clubs.
Single Parents Holistic Project - London

Single Parents Holistic Project was established by unemployed parents (Africans and refugees and asylum seekers) and now provides services to lone parents and residents of Hackney. 

Solace Women’s Aid

Solace Women’s Aid offers a range of services for women and children affected by domestic and sexual violence. Offered are dedicated Legal, Advice, Counselling and Parenting Services and Domestic Violence Workshops, as well as Children’s Services, which include Individual and Group Support and Counselling.

St Hilda's East Community Centre
St. Hilda's East is a thriving community centre providing educational, social and recreational activities for a multi-cultural population of all ages. Projects include:
Sun and Moon Play Care Scheme @ Ripple

Play scheme for primary children. Collects after school from Ripple and Eastbury schools. Registered by Ofsted to provide care for: 44. Open Monday to Friday

 After School 3:00pm - 6:00pm, and Holiday club 8:00am - 6:00pm

Toy Library
Toy libraries offer services to local children, families and carers based on regular toy loan for a nominal fee (and sometimes free). They provide carefully selected toys to borrow, play sessions, and a friendly, informative meeting place for parents and carers. As there are over 1,000 toy libraries throughout the UK, serving approximately to find the details of the one most convenient to you, telephone the main office. 
V & A Museum of Childhood
The Museum (located in Bethnal Green) is part of the V&A, housing the national childhood collection. The galleries are designed to show the collections in a way which is accessible to adults and children of all ages. Has a dynamic programme of temporary exhibitions, daily activities and seasonal events, and an excellent education programme with popular teaching sessions and resources linked directly to the National Curriculum.
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