Look Ahead provides specialist support and care services to people with a variety of needs. In Southwark, it also provides Young Persons Floating Support – a support service for between 120 -150 young people (16 -21 years old) living in their own accommodation, across all tenures within Southwark.Â
Entelechy Arts is a community arts organisation that works to promote cultural and social cohesion.Using arts activities and large-scale performance events, Entelechy aims to create works that builds bridges between groups of people and individuals who lead parallel and unconnected lives, often in the same neighbourhoods. This includes arts, dance and performance activities with older people from diverse communities, young people, people with learning disabilities and people from different cultural and social backgrounds.
As a Charity dedicated to supporting older people we aspire to a society where all older people are treated with respect and have the opportunity to live fulfilled lives. We offer a wide variety of services including residential care homes, nursing care homes and dementia care homes. Our day clubs, home support, home visiting, telephone befriending and grant- giving services help older people to stay in their own homes and remain active in their local communities.
We provide an information and advice service for older people, their families and carers, focusing on social care, welfare benefits and befriending services. This is integrated with local support, including one-to-one and group befriending schemes.
We provide services across children & young people, adults, older adults, mental health, learning disability, autism, substance misuse, employment and residential support & care.
Meetings around Southwark borders. A lifeline of friendship, Regular Sunday afternoon tea parties for people over 75, who live with little or no social support.The afternoons are full of fun and laughter and make a real difference to the lives of our guests.
Each older person is collected from their home by a volunteer driver and taken to a volunteer host’s home for the afternoon. The group is warmly welcomed by a different host each month, but the drivers remain the same which means that over the months and years, acquaintances turn into friends and loneliness is replaced by companionship.
We provide accessible respite care and short breaks in a friendly and relaxed holiday environment. Each break is full board and offers a wide range of activities and excursions. 24-hour nursing care on-call and personal support is included in the price of your break.
No Second Night Out aims to prevent long-term homelessness in the capital. It provides a new programme that seeks to introduce a step change in the way we respond to those who arrive new to rough sleeping on the streets. If you’re concerned about a rough sleeper, call the Rough Sleeping Phoneline 24/7 –  0870 383 3333, or report online, link below.
Headway South East London, North West Kent offers a variety of services to survivors of brain injury and stroke. We also offer support to their families and carers, including early intervention support, a neuro clinic, psychosocial rehabilitation, a carers service, community support, and vocational rehabilitation.