Best Before Project aims to reduce food waste by raising public awareness about the amount of food being wasted in the UK because of the misinterpretation of the “best before” date label. Main activities include, running educational campaigns about food labels and encouraging food businesses to sell food that has passed its best before date as it’s legal and safe to do so. They also encourage and help facilitate them donating to local charities.

Every Step Matters provides therapeutic group and individual support to children young people and adults empowering them to break the cycle of Domestic Abuse and form healthy loving relationships.

Eat Club is a London-based charity that teaches young people fundamental cooking skills enabling them to develop healthy lifestyles and address issues around food poverty and poor nutrition. They offer bespoke cooking courses in collaboration with a network of partner organisations, delivering high quality, impactful sessions and programmes that improve young people’s physical and mental health and wellbeing.

The Young People’s Foundation Trust (YPF Trust) supports placed-based Young People’s Foundations across London and the UK with a mission geared towards ensuring that the existing Young People’s Foundations are impactful and efficient, telling the story of their successes and enabling its successful replication elsewhere. YPF Trust recognises the critical role that universal, accessible youth services provides in the development, aspiration and potential of children and young people.

Thrive CIC is the social enterprise for gender equality. One pillar of Thrive’s work is with corporate businesses helping them to achieve gender equality amongst their people. To achieve this, we write inclusive evidence-led corporate policies and run educational sessions internally where we bring in frontline expertise on the issues being tackled.

We Rise is an award winning Brixton based community business with a mission to empower disadvantaged young people to create successful futures. The organisation develops confidence, connections and skills for work through innovative real work experience projects and a range of school, community and employer programmes.

The Catalyst Collective believes that mentoring can be a powerful intervention in the lives of young women. We recruit, train, match and support young professional Black women with Black teenagers for year-long mentoring relationships. The organisation is committed to facilitating meaningful mentoring relationships between young Black women, and mentors they can identify with to support them in achieving their goals.

The Safety Box was born out of the great need to proactively address the growing concerns of youth violence, low self-esteem, knife crime, bullying, CSE (Child Sexual Exploitation), school exclusions, gangs, drugs, exploitation and underachievement of young people. Their mission is to awaken the potential of youth, so that they have a better future and above all keep them safe, delivering a range of accredited programs to not only those in prison, youth at risk, and young people; but also to their parents, caregivers and professionals working with youth at risk.

Life Force Hub’s mission is to support those in the Borough of Wandsworth who are looking to start or grow a business. Helping with the entrepreneurial thinking to build better foundations. The organisation offers tailored training courses, matching them with the right business mentor and helping to raise the capital investments they require. Life Force Hub has an underpinning goal of providing opportunities to those who are under represented in the community and do not have access to the tools required to achieve long-term financial independence.

Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) is a global organisation working for the practical realisation of human rights through research, advocacy, capacity building and mobilisation. Locally, the organisation links with the Commonwealth Secretariat and other institutions based in London advocating for human rights promotion and protection within the Commonwealth. In addition, they work closely with our Commonwealth 8.7 Network members focusing on eradicating modern slavery who are based locally. Our London office is small, with 6 in our team plus 4 interns, looking to expand and improve systems and processes.

Chair of TrusteesHome-Start Lambeth’s aim is to prevent the challenges of poverty, neglect and isolation from compromising children’s ability to thrive, through matching volunteers with vulnerable families with young children in order to provide support through weekly visits and calls. All volunteers are carefully recruited, selected and trained to support families with a range of

Based in South London, Young Mums Support Network works with young mothers who are facing challenges with parenting. The organisation works to reduce isolation in parenthood, helps mothers to manage their homes, and offers cooking courses, sewing and gardening as well as back to work courses.

Being incredibly disturbed by the silence of the Indian diaspora in UK to the increasing number of gang rapes and the sheer brutality of them, gave birth to NaariSamatā, a charity working on rape prevention by teaching the youth about gender equality and respect for women.

The Big Local SW11, works to address loneliness, isolation and mental health (particularly Anxiety and Depression) using a Community Development approach, enabling others and working in partnership. Their aim is to build a stronger, more resilient community sector by removing barriers that prevent people from realising their potential as residents, workers and volunteers.

Healthy Living Platform develops community programmes and activities that empower local people and are self-sustaining. They offer activities which benefit the health and wellbeing of the whole community and help improve the environment we live in, running food projects, vegetable bag schemes, food parcels, food growing/gardening, walks, Yoga, Zumba etc.

Citizens Advice Wandsworth provide advice, information and support on a range of social welfare issues to around 13,000 Londoners a year. They’re an independent charity that’s part of the national Citizens Advice network and work in partnership with five other offices in South West London to deliver a shared telephone advice service which covers a population of 1.5 million people. Their funded projects deliver a range of specialist and in-depth support targeted at people most in need.

Junction Elite believe in developing youths as footballers, and as people, giving them all skills needed as future young adults. The positive values they look to instil such as confidence, discipline, communication etc can help prepare them for the working world, or perhaps even a career in football, as well as having the tools to maintain a healthy active lifestyle. As well as this, Junction Elite work in the prevention of knife crime by raising awareness, and providing as many productive activities to shelter youths from that lifestyle as we can.

Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative are a global organisation working for the practical realisation of human rights through research, advocacy, capacity building and mobilisation. Locally, the organisation links with the Commonwealth Secretariat and other institutions based in London advocating for human rights promotion and protection within the Commonwealth.

Thrive CIC is the social enterprise for gender equality. One pillar of Thrive’s work is with corporate businesses helping them to achieve gender equality amongst their people. To achieve this, we write inclusive evidence-led corporate policies and run educational sessions internally where we bring in frontline expertise on the issues being tackled.

Eat Club is a London-based charity that teaches young people fundamental cooking skills enabling them to develop healthy lifestyles and address issues around food poverty and poor nutrition.