Local Organisations

Across the Elephant are a myriad of networks and local groups serving every aspect of this increasingly vibrant community.

If your organisation is not featured on this list and you would like to be, please email info@elephantandcastle.org.uk

AAWAZ (Southwark Asian Women `s Association)
Advice and information on welfare rights, benefits, housing, harassment and physical/sexual abuse.

Southwark Asian Centre
off Nigel Road
Peckham Rye
SE15 4NU

Tel: 020 7252 9290

Age Concern Southwark
An independent charity working with older people, not to be confused with the national organisation Age Concern England.

Head office
224/236 Walworth Road
SE17 1JE

Tel: 020 7701 9700

ARCHRO (African Refugee Community Health and Research Organisation)
A charitable organisation set up to develop and promote access to services for asylum seekers, refugees and migrants from Africa.

365 Brixton Road
SW9 7DA

Tel:020 7737 6019 or 020 7733 0125

Aylesbury Access Centre
Offers a wide range of business and education support services.

Wendover,
Thurlow Street
SE17 2UU

Tel: 020 7701 4141

Broadway Homeless and Support
Provides services to over 2,800 people who are at risk of, or are experiencing, homelessness.

Chaucer House
White Hart Yard
SE1 1NX

Tel: 0207 089 9500

Centre of Literacy in Primary Education
An educational centre for schools and teachers, parents, teaching assistants and other educators.

Webber Street
SE1 8QW

Tel: 0207 633 0840

Elephant Jobs
A not for profit company that aims to improve the social and environmental well being of people in South London, primarily Southwark and Lambeth.

Aylesbury Learning Centre
Wendover
Thurlow Street
SE17 2UU

Tel: 020 7701 4141

Fareshare
A national organisation working with over 100 businesses to minimise food waste. Volunteer and work placements are also available.

Tower Bridge Business Complex
100 Clements Road
Bermondsey
SE16 4DG

Tel: 020 7394 2468

Centre for Prosperity and Well Being
Offers a range of adult learning courses, including English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), basic computing and childcare.

Nick Pelas (Centre Manager)
Archbishop Michael Ramsey Technology College
Farmers Road
Camberwell
SE5 0UB

Tel:020 7708 4709

GHARWEG (Ghana Refugee Welfare Group)
GHARWEG provides careers advice, training and vocational guidance.

5 Westminster Bridge Road,
SE1 7XW

Tel: 020 7620 1430

Great Lakes African Women`s Network
Offers culturally appropriate bereavement counseling and support to African women and children in the UK and Africa.

5 Westminster Bridge Road,
SE1 7XW

Tel: 020 7241 5557

Guy Fox History Project
Uses innovative projects to engage children with local history and their community.

Unit LF.B4
The Leathermarket
Weston Street
SE1 3HN

Tel: 020 7407 4785

www.guyfox.org.uk

High Trees Community Development Trust
Working for the community in adult learning, adult courses in basic skills: maths, literacy and I.T. Peer mentoring for local school children with learning difficulties and behavioral problems.

St Martins Library Centre
220 Upper Tulse Hill
SW2 2NS

Tel: 0208 671 3132

Home Start Southwark
Volunteer organisation providing friendly advice and practical help for families.

112a Warner Road,
Camberwell,
SE5 9HQ.

Tel: 020 7733 7252

Kagyu Samye Dzong

Kagyu Samye Dzong is a Tibetan Buddhist Community Centre based in the old Manor Baths, a listed building steeped in history that had become so derelict it was on the English Heritage ‘at risk’ register.

Manor Place building is now transformed and is open to Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike. It features a shrine room, meeting rooms, accommodation for monks, nuns and lay residents, rooms for hire, complementary therapy, a library and a tearoom. Along with the traditional meditation and Buddhism courses, the centre also holds classes in yoga, martial arts, while twice a week it runs a low-cost drop-in clinic offering acupuncture, cranial sacral therapy, reflexology, Indian Head massage, Holistic massage, polarity therapy and shiatsu.

http://london.samye.org/london/

Tel: 020 7708 8969

Kingsdale School
Pioneering school recognised by distinguished academics as one of the leading transformational institutions in South London.

The Multimedia School of Academic
Creative and Vocational Studies
Alleyn Park
Dulwich
SE21 8SQ

Tel: 020 8670 7575

Latin American CDP Association
Not-for-profit organisation working to develop co-operatives, community enterprises, small businesses, and sole traders, as well as a range of other activities aimed at supporting members of the Latin American community.

Studio 4
14 Marshalsea Road
SE1 1HL

Tel: 020 7357 9091

Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust
Offers a range of primary and secondary health services.

The Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust
Lewisham High Street
SE13 6LH

Tel: 020 8333 3000

LLU + at LSBU (London South Bank University)
LLU+ runs the largest professional development centre in the UK, playing an important role in building teacher training capacity, both locally and nationally. For people working in Southwark for businesses of 250 staff or under, or those doing volunteering work, free dyslexia tests are offered. A dyslexia test can help you obtain dyslexia friendly software for your computer supplied by your employer under the Disabilty Discrimination Act.

103 Borough Road
London SE1 0AA

Heather Hardy
Tel: 020 7815 6292
dande@lsbu.ac.uk

LSBU (London South Bank University)
Tertiary education provider offering a curriculum that addresses the real needs of London’s growing economy. With diversity at the centre of its admissions policy, students of all ages, experience and ethnicity study side by side in a stimulating and creative environment.

90 London Road
SE1 6EN

Tel: 020 7815 7815

London and Quadrant Housing Trust
London and Quadrant Housing Trust is one of 2,000 housing associations in the UK. Its main purpose is to provide homes for people to rent, currently managing over 40,000 homes in Greater London and South East England.

L&Q Group - Head Office
Osborn House
Osborn Terrace
SE3 9DR

Tel: 020 8852 9181

Media Citizens Ltd

Media Citizens Design is a mutlimedia design and production company focussed on innovation in interactive communications.

The company offers a range of products and services to clients, from long-term design consultancies to one-off content productions, multi-media publishing options andprofessional training. For more details and course titles please visit the website.

The intoMEDIA centre is a media hub for the Elephant and Castle regeneration area in south London. It is part of the wider ‘into’ ICT project.

IntoMEDIA provides the mutlimedia tools, production facilities and training to help the local community create and publish their own media.

There are courses in film and IT as well as basic skills in literacy and numeracy on offer.

5-13 Trinity Street
Southwark
SE1 1DB

info@mediacitizens.com
www.mediacitizens.com

Morley College

An adult education college. It offers courses in a wide variety of fields including science, languages, drama, dance, music, computing, exercise and health and humanities.

Morley College
61 Westminster Bridge Road
SE1 7HT

Tel: 020 7928 8501

Nueva Generacion
Gives Latin American youth the opportunity to use the arts as a medium of expression and a tool for self-development and self-empowerment, helping them express their feelings, break down personal and social barriers and address the issues that affect them.

ng@refugeeyouth.org.uk

Red Kite Learning
Red Kite Learning is a social enterprise that believes in equipping people with the knowledge and skills to fulfil their potential.

207 Waterloo Road
SE1 8XD

Tel: 020 7928 2439

Rehab UK
Provides assessment, training and development programmes to help people with disabilities break into the workforce.

Tel: 020 8579 9671

Rockingham Estate Play Association

Adventure playground with indoor facilities.
For all children 5-16 open access with supervisory staff, children are free to come and go it is free. Term time Tues-Fri 4-7pm Sat 11-4pm, holiday time Mon–Fri 11-4pm.
Parents must come in for registration to discuss special needs or dietary requirements as tuck shop is on site. Term time some walking buses are available direct from school. Otherwise parents can bring children direct from school and food is available for £1.

10 Dickens Square
SE1 4JL

Tel: 020 7403 8337

Social Enterprise London
Works with individuals, local businesses, community groups and government organisations to make social enterprise and positive change happen.

Third Floor
Downstream Building
1 London Bridge Road
SE1 9BG

Tel: 020 7022 1920
www.sel.org.uk

Southwark Adult Education
Offers a wide range of adult learning courses across the borough.

Thomas Calton Centre
Alpha Street
SE15 4NX

Tel: 020 7358 2100

Southwark Works!
Offers free CV advice, interview coaching and a job search facility, as well as help with finding training opportunities.

Tel: 0800 052 0540
www.southwark.gov.uk/southwarkworks

START

Interested in working for a gallery, musuem, theatre or visitor attraction and currently unemployed? START works with residents of Southwark, Lambeth, Wandsworth, south Westminster and City of London. START aims to help unemplyed people obtain customer facing jobs with many exciting employers in central London, including Tate, Imperial War Museum, National Theatre and British Airways London Eye. For more information, please speak to your employment advisor or call one of START's workplace coordinators on 020 7928 9106 or 020 7928 8583

Advice and guidance on job search

Award winning pre-employment training courses

Guaranteed interviews with employers

Free places on one-day accredited training courses

Assistance with application forms and CVs

Help with interview techniques

Tabard After School Project

An after school club providing out of school care. They are Ofsted inspected. Please call for details of ages and times.

Central Hall
256 BERMONDSEY STREET
SE1 3UJ

Tel: 020 7403 9836

Engine Room – Peabody Trust
UK Online centre set up at the request of the Bricklayers Arms Tenants' Association, which wanted to develop an ICT centre on their estate to bring long-term benefits to the residents and surrounding community.

Tel: 0800 5878215

Volunteer Centre Southwark
Southwark’s main volunteer development agency.

Wigglesworth House
2nd Floor (Left)
69 Southwark Bridge Road
SE1 0NQ

Tel: 020 7403 2936

LLU (formerly London, Language and Literacy Unit)
Provides training and advice on adult literacy, numeracy, English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), dyslexia support and family learning.

Pocock House
Southwark Bridge Road

Tel: 020 7815 6290

Walworth Garden Farm

The Farm carries out Horticultural training for the very long term unemployed residents of Southwark, work on local environmental projects such as improvements to the; Doddington Estate, Aylesbury Estate, Pasley Park, St George's Gardens, Sexby Gardens, Dulwich Park and Southwark Park. The garden farm also provides Environmental Education for local schools, wildlife clubs,and the School Orchard Project as well as Horticultural Therapy for people with learning disabilities. Walworth Garden Services, a Social Enterprise employing former trainees to carry out garden maintenance jobs in Southwark, is also run from this project.

Braganza Street
SE17 3BN

020 7582 2652
http://www.walworthgardenfarm.org.uk/

WorkDirections
We provide free, one-to-one support for unemployed people who want to look for lasting work, including people on health-related benefits, single parents, long-term unemployed people, ex-offenders and those who don’t have English as their first language.

5th Floor, Hannibal House
Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre
London SE1 6TE

One Hardwick’s Square
Wandsworth
London SW18 4AW

Tel: 0800 321 3136
www.workdirections.co.uk