Partner organisations
The work of SIED is split into different areas of work which we call Work Packages
(WPs). Below lists the lead activities carried out by our partnership:
London Borough of Islington
Main contact: Tony Swash
Telephone: 020 7527 3496
Email:
tswash@urban.islington.gov.uk
Website:
www.islington.gov.uk
Is the lead partner and has overall responsibility for the work of the partnership.
It is responsible for ensuring the integrity of the partnership and all compliance
issues and programme delivery.
London Borough of Camden
Main contact: Richard Miller
Telephone: 020 7974 1931
Email:
richard.miller@camden.gov.uk
Website:
www.camden.gov.uk
Leads and coordinates the strategic developments in the borough, working with Centa
Business Services to provide enterprise support through ACBBA members
Centa Business Services contact: Stephen Anderson, BME Business
Adviser
Telephone: 020 7278 5757
Email:
sanderson@centa.co.uk
Website:
www.centa.co.uk
London Borough of Lewisham
Main contact: Paul Chapman
Telephone: 020 8314 8525
Email:
paul.chapman@lewisham.gov.uk
Website:
www.lewisham.gov.uk
Leads and coordinates the strategic developments in the borough, working with Simple
Business Solutions to provide enterprise support through ACBBA members.
RETAS (a section of Education Action International)
Main contact: Roya Jahanbin
Telephone: 020 7426 5818
Email:
roya@education-action.org
Website:
www.education-action.org
Is developing a toolkit for people who are moving from an income from benefit to
an income from enterprise. It will be appropriate for refugees.
Small Business Research Centre, Kingston University
Main contact: Professor Robert Blackburn
Telephone: 020 85477354
Email:
r.blackburn@kingston.ac.uk
Website: http://business.kingston.ac.uk/sbrc
Validates the project by carrying out research.
Lasa (London Advice Services Alliance)
Main contact: Terry Stokes
Telephone: 020 7377 2538
Email:
tstokes@lasa.org.uk
Website:
www.lasa.org.uk
Coordinates the development of new tools in languages other than English and e-communications.
IEA
Main contact: Olayinka Jacobs-Bonnick
Telephone: 020 7226 2783
Email: olayinka@islingtonenterprise.co.uk
Website:
www.i-e-a.org.uk
Provides the professional development and training programme for the ACBBA Business
Advisers.
Islington Training Network
Main contact: Sumita Dutta
Telephone: 020 7715 0300
Email:
sumita@itn.org.uk
Website:
www.itn.org.uk
Delivers a capacity development programme for ACBBA Members and support and guidance
in the development of new initiatives which increase the capacity of VCS .
Prevista Ltd
Main contact: Teresa Bednall
Telephone: 020 7619 6262
Email:
terryb@prevista.co.uk
Website:
www.prevista.co.uk
Manages the project on behalf of London Borough of Islington, leads on transnational,
evaluation and strategic partnership development activities.
Association of Community Based Business Advice (ACBBA)
Main contact: Armando Pardo/ Natalie Telesford
Telephone: 020 7697 4888
Email:
acbba@btconnect.com
Website:
www.acbba.info
ACBBA is a membership organisation of community organisations. It is seeking to
ensure the role of community organisations in delivering enterprise support is developed
and sustained. Community organisations are contracted to deliver enterprise support
through ACBBA.
ACBBA members involved in SIED are:
Daymer - Turkish and Kurdish Group
Business Adviser: Oncu Gocebe
Telephone: 020 7275 8440
Email:
info@daymer.org
Website:
www.daymer.org
Day-Mer was founded in 1989 with the mission to work with and on behalf of Turkish
and Kurdish people living and working in London, to enable them to address their
problems and promote their cultural economic, social and democratic rights.
Services: Supplementary School, Saz Classes (musical instrument),
Under 5's Playgroup, Folkdance Theatre, various activities under IT and General
and Business Advice.
Users: Individuals mainly from the Turkish/Kurdish communities.
Arachne - Greek Cypriot Women's Centre
Business Adviser: Constantina Sampani Main contact:
Elli Constantidinou
Telephone: 020 7263 6261
Email:
arachnegk@ukonline.co.uk
Website:
www.arachne-group.org
Arachne Greek Cypriot Women's Centre is a long established voluntary organisation
and registered charity that aims to improve the quality of life and well being of
Greek Cypriot and Greek women and their families.
Services: Adult Education Classes, Keep Fit Classes, Employment
and Training Services - ESOL, RSA Clait, Heath Education programme, Befriending
Scheme, Carers Self-Help Group, Playschemes and Recreational and Cultural activities.
Users: Women of Greek Cypriot / Greek nationality
LAWRS (Latin American Women's Rights Service)
Business Adviser: Dolly Rodriguez Main contact: Susana Klein
Telephone: 020 7336 0888
Email:
lawrs@lawrs.org.uk
Website:
www.lawrs.co.uk
The Latin American Women's Rights Service was set up 22 years ago in recognition
that women in their community carry out a disproportionate share of the problems
of displacement, and tend to be more socially and economically marginalised. LAWRS
strives to offer a holistic service that provides a wide scope of services to enable
Latin American women to address their main issues, as well as a range of educational
projects to enable them to break away from poverty and exclusion.
Users: Latin American Women and Youths
Services: Housing, Money & Debt, Housing & Advice for the
Elderly, Outreach for Housebound Women, Counselling, Business Advice, Domestic Violence
Prevention and Volunteering.
UCKG (Universal Church of the Kingdom of GOD)
Business Adviser: Charles Ajorgbor
Main contact: Kim Powell
Telephone: 020 7686 6013
Email:
trainingcentre@uckg.org
Website:
www.uckg.org.uk
One of the two of ACBBA'S 'faith' members, the UCKG was founded in 1977 in Brazil.
It is a registered charity and Christina spiritual centre with activities in over
90 countries. UCKG Training Centre was set up as an arm of the UCKG Help Centre
in 2000. The training centre provides vocational training to people residing in
the London Borough of Islington in addition to other boroughs across London. UCKG
hope to train and equip users to become more skilled for the job market with the
provision of accessible training, childcare provision, trainee support, etc.
Services: IT Training, ESOL, Business Advice, Spiritual Counselling,
support for prison inmates and their families, Hospital visitation group, Food Donation,
Blood Donor sessions, Clothe collections.
Users: Long-term Unemployed, ex-offenders
Muslim Welfare House
Business Adviser: Kamel Abdessetar Main contact:
Moadh Kheriji
Telephone: 020 7263 3071
Email:
info@mwht.org.uk
Website:
www.mwht.org.uk
Founded in 1970, this establishment was originally formed to assist Muslim students
coming to the UK for further education. Over the years, however, the focus of the
charity has changed, as has its user community. The multi-purpose building acts
more than just a Mosque, but as an entire community centre. The MWH also acts as
a social, cultural and learning and advice centre for more than 15 nationalities,
ranging from Algerians, Somalis, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis.
Users: Muslims across the board
Services: Information Technology (ICT), Advice & Counselling,
Fashion Design, Saturday School, Business Advice and ESOL
Somali Speakers Association
Business Adviser: Mohamoud Nur
Telephone: 020 7833 9893
Email:
somali.speakers@ukonline.co.uk
The SSA supports the Somali community to access opportunities and services. SSA
has gained a reputation as an inclusive organisation by cutting across tribal lines.
Users: Somali Males/Females, Youths
Services: Advice & Training in Housing, Welfare Rights, ESOL
Classes, RSA/OCR Clait, Education & Health and Business Advice and Pastoral
care
The HELP (Healing & Empowering Lone Parents)
Business Adviser: Triumph Ayo-Isegun
Telephone: 020 7012 1172
Email:
help@thehelp.org.uk
The HELP makes possible the co-ordination, encouragement and representation of very
diverse people from all walks of life. The HELP is established to tackle social
exclusion of a group of people whose value to society is underestimated and could
remain untapped due to public prejudices and practical limitations imposed by parenting
alone.
Users: Lone Male/Female parents
Services: General Advice & Counselling, Business Advice and
Support
Iranian Community Centre
Business Adviser: Sima Azad
Main contact: Ali Mahmoudi
Telephone: 020 7700 0477
Email:
icclondon@btconnect.com
ICC aims to help Iranians in the process of their resettlement in this country.
ICC offers its services to all Iranians experiencing difficulties and has tried
to fill the existing gap between the needs of the community and the existing provisions.
Users: Iranians Males/Females, Youths
Services: Immigration Advice, Welfare Rights and Advice, Health
Education, Employment, the Elderly, Youth Clubs, Business Advice and Support
Islington Bangladeshi Association
Main contact: Asad Choudhury
Telephone: 020 7833 2608 / 020 7833 0591
Email:
ahciba@aol.com
IBA is a grassroots led registered charitable organisation based in South Islington.
It is the only specific Bangladesh led organisation surviving in the Borough of
Islington and is now the main point of contact for the Bangladeshi community there.
The Association was set up in 1984 to tackle poverty, deprivation and the isolation
being experience by a marginalised Bangladeshi community in the borough. It has
a long standing reputation within the community in terms of service provision -
addressing the social, cultural, welfare and economic needs of the Bangladeshi community.
Users: Bangladeshi and other Asian peoples
Services: Advice and Information service (welfare, drugs, education,
consumer, debt, interpretation and translation, housing, business start-ups), OAP
club, Employment and training, Homework club, Arts & Crafts
Pepys Community Forum
Business Adviser: Fartun Shide
Telephone: 020 8694 3503
Email:
reeta@pepyscommunityforum.org.uk
Established in 2000, PCF is an organisation that strives for full equality of education,
training and employment opportunities for refugees and asylum seekers living in
Lewisham. PCF has become a driving force in tackling the issues refugees and asylum
seekers face in Lewisham and also unlock their potential both as individuals and
members of the community.
Users: Refugee and Asylum seekers from across the board
Services: Advice and Information (welfare, immigration, education,
training, business start-ups, employment, ESOL
African Community Partnership
Business Adviser: Yemi Akinyera
Main contact: Elizabeth Oloo
Telephone: 020 7277 7997
Email:
yemmy124@yahoo.com
A UK based non-profit making organisation representing all people who define themselves
as being of African origin. There core objective is the improvement of the socio-economic
status of members of target communities through advancement of education and capacity
building in such skills as will fit them for employment and enable them to fully
participate in society.
Users: African communities and Caribbean peoples
Services: Information and Advice (housing, welfare benefits and
employment), IT and Internet access, life-skills training, youth exchange programmes,
volunteer brokerage, international development, business support and advice.
Hopscotch Asian Women's Centre
Business Adviser: Sultana Easmin
Main contact: Nahar Choudhury
Telephone: 020 7388 6200
Email: nahar.choudhury@hopscotchawc.org.uk
Hopscotch supports the Asian community, particularly Bangladeshi women and children
in Camden to enable them to participate in society with the knowledge, skills and
confidence to access society's opportunities, benefits and decision-making processes.
They promote self-sufficiency within the community through access to education,
training and employment.
Users: Asian women and children
Services: housing, welfare, immigration, health, computing, crafts,
creche, business support services.
Islington Chinese Association
Business Adviser: Katy Tse Blair
Telephone: 020 7263 5986
Email:
islingtonchinese@yahoo.co.uk
Website:
www.islingtonchinese.com
ICA has been established for 18 years. They were set up to advance education amongst
the Chinese community through the provision and promotion of facilities for education
and training and relive poverty and distress through advisory and other services.
They are proud to have forged links not only with other Chinese organisations but
with the wider community as a whole
Users: Chinese
Services: Advice and Information (welfare, housing, benefits, education
and training) OAP luncheon club, youth activities, business advice and guidance
Eritrean Community in the UK
Business Adviser: Mebrathu Russom
Telephone: 020 7700 7995
Email:
ecuk@eritreanuk.org
ECUK is a charitable organisation established in 1987 to promote the quality of
life of Eritrean refugees and asylum seekers in the UK by providing advice and guidance
in a variety of topics in addition to culturally based counselling. In the past
17 years ECUK has made a tremendous impact and contribution to its community and
as a result of that, its credibility and accountability has increased significantly.
Users: Eritreans
Services: Immigration, Welfare, Housing and Education, Business
advice
Bengali Workers Association
Main contact: Enayet Sarwar
Telephone: 020 7388 7313
Email:
enayet@dsl.pipex.com
BWA is a registered charity working for the welfare of Bangladeshi people living
in the London Borough of Camden since 1976. It has a longstanding reputation within
the community in terms of service provision and aims to empower British Bangladeshi
people through community initiatives and raise awareness through education and training
and to strengthen the social fabric of the Bengali community and encourage self-help.
Users: All Camden residents, but primarily Bangladeshi's.
Services: Advice and Information (welfare, immigration, benefits)
specialist advice (legal, Local authority and DWP), Arts and Crafts, Parenting,
Health, OAP club, Youth activities, ESOL, Computing, Business support and advice
Afghan Community Organisation of London
Business Adviser: Nooralhaqui Nasimi
Telephone: 020 7277 6242
Email:
nasimi@afghancommunity.org.uk
Website:
www.afghancommunity.org.uk
Established in 2002, ACOL is governed by a management board of eight members and
has a membership of over seven hundred people. The organisation has established
strong links with other Afghan organisations in the UK and work together on initiatives
to support and develop Afghans living in the UK.
Users: Women and Men of the Afghan community
Services: ESOL, Arts & Crafts, Advice and Information (welfare,
benefits, immigration), Business support and advice
Kentish Town Somali Welfare Association
Business Adviser: Mohamed Ibrahim
Telephone: 020 7428 0446
Email:
mmibrahim3@yahoo.co.uk
Established in early 1998 to provide different services to Somali community, particularly
children and families. Since its inception this organisation has been providing
much needed advice and guidance for the Somali community
Users: Members of the Somali, Eritean and Ethiopian communities
Services: Advice and Guidance (immigration, welfare, benefits,
business start-ups, training and employment) youth activities, Supplementary classes,
Health, ESOL
An-Viet Foundation
Business Adviser: Huong Dao
Telephone: 020 7275 7780
Email:
anviet@anvietuk.org
Website:
www.anvietuk.org
A refugee community organisation that provides various services to Vietnamese users
across the east of London.
Users: Vietnamese refugee and asylum seekers
Services: Welfare advice, interpreting and translation, business
advice, drugs awareness, cultural events
Algerian British Connection
Business Adviser: Mouna Hamitouche
Telephone: 020 7713 0875
Email: algerianbritishconnection@yahoo.co.uk
A unique association which serves the Algerian community in Camden and also other
Arabic speaking communities. ABC is committed to serve the needs of the local community
in general and those of Algerian background to achieve her/his full potential by
participating and contributing in all aspects of a productive life via adequate
support, advice, training and guidance.
Users: Algerians and Arabic speaking members of the community
Services: Arts and Crafts, ESOL, Business support services
Care Alliance
Business Adviser: Priscilla Muruthi
Telephone: 020 7388 2717
Email:
priscilla.m@care-alliance.org.uk
Care Alliance aims to improve the quality of life for the disadvantaged and the
poor by empowering them to take action themselves to better their lives and those
of others through the development of potential of refugees and other disadvantaged
people and breaking down barriers to enable refugees to access opportunities around
them.
Users: unemployed and under-employed refugees form all refugee
communities
Services: Advice and Guidance (immigration, welfare, benefits)
training and employment, business support and advice
The Gate Construction Co-operative
Business Adviser: Berio Lutumba
Telephone: 07900 572 272
Email:
info@thegateco-coop.co.uk
Website:
www.thegateco-coop.co.uk
The Gate Construction Cooperative was founded in January 2005 as a social enterprise
to assist BME's and other small building and maintenance contractors within New
Cross NDC (New Deal for Communities) and the surrounding areas. The Gate Co-Op was
created by professionals from a varied background including the legal, accounting,
housing, construction and the environmental sectors. The principal aim of the Co-Op
is to deliver and participate within economic regeneration aiming to leave behind
a legacy of working companies through the management of local tradesmen from a pragmatic
perspective and with a social conscience in the above mentioned areas.
Users: Members of BME communities
Services: Training in Construction (practical and vocational),
business advice, lobbying and legislative services and research and development
into best practices.
Halkevi - Kurdish & Turkish Community Centre
Business Adviser: Can Bulus
Main contact: Yasar Ismailoglu
Telephone: 020 7249 6980
Email:
info@Halkevi.com
Website:
www.halkevi.com
The centre was established in 1984 and is a registered charity. Halkevi's main priority
is to wecome and provide support for Kurdish and Turkish refugees, the majority
of whom are Kurdish who have fled oppression and economic hardship. Halkevi's objectives
are to help its members - who are spread across the whole of England - with their
cultural, social and political difficulties.
Services: Welfare and Immigration advice, Business Advice, Counselling,
Luncheon club,
Users: Individuals mainly for the Kurdish/Turkish communities