Drop-in support

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Advice & Advocacy

Trusted, practical support to help people take the next step. We help with understanding letters, making phone calls, completing simple forms, booking appointments, and finding the right service for welfare, housing, health, employment and education. We provide basic immigration signposting where appropriate, but we do not present this as formal legal casework.

Important: We do not provide regulated immigration advice.

• Help with letters, forms and appointments
• Welfare, housing, health and employment signposting
• Basic immigration signposting
• eVisa & UKVI account help — creating accounts, accessing eVisas, generating share codes

Tuesday & Thursday · 10:00–14:00 · Free, drop-in

Learning & development

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Education & Skills

Conversation-led practical English classes that build everyday confidence for appointments, school communication and work. We also offer basic digital support (including help with online tasks and connectivity where available), plus employability-focused help and short trainings that open pathways into learning, volunteering and work.

• Practical English classes (conversational, everyday focus)
• Digital literacy and online support
• Employability help and short trainings
• Pathways into volunteering and work

Practical English — Wednesday · 18:45

Connection & belonging

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Community & Culture

Inclusive community activities that reduce isolation and strengthen belonging. Social gatherings and culturally rooted activities such as music, dance and community events celebrating Kurdish, Turkish and wider migrant communities.

• Bağlama lessons — Monday 18:30
• Monthly community breakfast
• Concerts and cultural gatherings
• Community social events

Various — weekly and monthly sessions

Children & parents

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Youth & Families

Family-friendly sessions that help children feel safe, included and confident. Age-appropriate sport and fitness, family activities, and informal guidance for parents when school systems feel difficult to navigate.

• Little Champions martial arts (4–6 and 7–11 year groups, free)
• Tiny Humans family film nights
• Parent guidance on school communication

Women-led spaces

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Women's Health & Wellbeing

Women-led, culturally sensitive spaces that reduce isolation and rebuild confidence. Activities include movement sessions, peer support, creative skills, and mental health awareness and wellbeing signposting (non-clinical).

• Women's pilates and yoga sessions
• Peer support and social connection
• Handicrafts and creative skills
• Mental health awareness and wellbeing signposting (non-clinical)
• Mor Kızıl Kolektif women's gatherings

Weekly — see contact for current times

Community meals

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Food & Warm Spaces

Community meals and warm, welcoming gatherings (including hot soup sessions) that help people connect, feel supported, and build routine — especially during colder months or difficult periods.

• Monthly community breakfast
• Hot soup sessions
• Warm, welcoming drop-in space

Monthly — see contact for dates

Scouts & outdoor skills

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UMW Pathfinders — Scouts

Our Scouts group for young people in Hackney. A place to build confidence, belonging and practical outdoor skills together. Open to all — no previous experience needed, uniforms and kit provided where possible.

• Weekly Scouts sessions in Hackney
• Outdoor skills, teamwork and community projects
• Trips and activities through the Scout network
• Inclusive, bilingual group — Turkish, Kurdish and English welcome

Weekly — contact us for current day and time

Creative making

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Community Arts

Hands-on arts sessions for children and families — drawing, painting, recycled-material sculpture and group creative projects. Work is displayed in our community venue so participants see their ideas valued. Sessions are supervised, welcoming and open to different ages and confidence levels.

• Drawing and painting clubs for children
• Recycled-material sculpture and craft workshops
• Finished work displayed in our community space
• Family-friendly, bilingual delivery
• Pathways into volunteer and facilitator roles where funding allows

Various — contact us for current sessions

Learning & performance

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Courses

Structured small-group courses for children and young people — maths, English, drama and dance. Sessions build skills, confidence and positive peer connection in a familiar, bilingual community setting.

• Maths support for school-age children
• English language and literacy skills
• Drama and creative performance
• Dance and movement sessions
• Family-friendly, bilingual delivery

Various — contact us for current course times