Newham Community Project
About Us
Based in Canning Town, Newham Community Project is a registered charity that has been helping with social welfare community development for over 14 years. Newham Community Project was established in 2008 by a group of concerned Newham residents to surmount the increasing racial, gender, and religious inequalities in education and social welfare within the London Borough of Newham. The concern around the lack of facilities for youth and increased youth crime directed them to intercept by hosting youth clubs to create an outlet for youth to engage. Over the years, Newham Community Project has continued to interject in crisis times.
Since the unprecedented pandemic and now shockwaves of the pandemic and the cost of living crisis, Newham Community Project has witnessed an escalation in difficulties faced by the community; with innumerable BAME, disadvantaged, underprivileged, and those with no recourse to public funds, members of the community find themselves in, struggling unequally more than others. Newham Community Project responded to the adverse effects of the pandemic by initiating a foodbank, which has now been operating for the last thirty-two months, distributing weekly groceries to over 3,600 adults and children per week at the peak of the pandemic. Currently, it supports over 560 families with children. Newham Community Project realised the extended adversities, discrimination, and disadvantages for their service users and the community and initiated a wraparound service helping to overcome many of the adversities the community is facing. Newham Community Project has a trauma-informed approach, offers mental well-being support, signposting where necessary. Run an integration and Cohesion programme to help with social development and community inclusion.
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