| Organisation (Please click for more info) | Organisation Description | Services Provided |
|---|---|---|
| Advocacy First |
Advocacy First offers a free and independent advocacy service for people in the community, patients in hospital and in care/nursing homes in Bromley. We offer a variety of advocacy services that is required by all our clients. |
Free and independent advocacy service |
| Allergy UK |
Allergy UK is the leading national medical charity providing advice, information and support to people with allergies and food intolerances. Wheelchair accessible. |
Allergy Factsheets |
| Belvedere Community Centre |
Local facility for hire to the community and organisations. Sports hall, meeting rooms, offices |
Sports |
| Christ Church Bexleyheath |
Christ Church is a town centre church serving those who live, work and shop in Bexleyheath. It is part of the Church of England. We are a welcoming and Inclusive community that is open to all people whether of faith of or no faith. We offer Christian acts of worship on Sunday at 8am, 10am, and 6pm, but we also have a variety of social activities that is open to anyone to join. We try hard to care for everyone who comes to Christ Church, and we seek to be a loving family. |
• Christenings (or Baptisms) |
| Cold Blow Crescent Residents Association |
We promote a safe and clean environment and ensure roads and pathways are maintained and repaired. We also watch out for local building projects that might be detrimental to our residents and oppose them where agreed. We also constantly keep residents informed of crime trends and help them where needed. We make a particular effort to help those home bound and send get well cards, condolence cards, new arrival cards and welcome notes to new residents. We have 95% membership. |
We have successfully petitioned to get a Sunday bus service for our residents. |
| Erith Town Forum |
The Forum is set up to promote the town, to encourage businesses to locate in Erith and monitor the regeneration of the area in order to encourage community participation and cohesion. |
We hold regular public meetings at Bexley College at which presentations are given on local environment/housing developments, community safety, health provision, leisure activities. Forum members and the public are invited to fully participate in discussions. |
| Family Matters |
Family Matters provides specialist therapy to victims of rape and sexual abuse and our aim is to relieve the mental and physical distress of children, adolescents and adults who have been victims of this horrific abuse. The sexual violence can be recent or historic; it can be reported to police or not reported. As a charity our services are subject to funding and at present and we are funded to offer support to clients living within Kent or the London Borough of Bexley or if aged 16 and under we also accept clients from London Boroughs of Greenwich and Bromley. We also offer a helpline service which is provided by trained volunteers. Opening times : 9am-5.00pm Helpline 7 days a week:01474 537392. |
• One to One therapy |
| Friends of Footscray Meadows |
Foots Cray Meadows are the largest public open space in the London Borough of Bexley, situated in the South East of the Borough bordered by Sidcup, Albany Park, North Cray and Bexley Village. The River Cray forms a central feature of the landscape. Foots Cray Meadows have evolved from the estates of: Foots Cray Place and North Cray Place. They are rich in Natural History with the River, Woods and Meadows providing valuable pockets of nature conservation. The area is within the suburban sprawl of South East London as such it is site of huge ecological importance as well as an outdoor recreation area. The Meadows are controlled and managed by Bexley Council |
Information Centre. |
| Metro Charity |
A centre in South East London for lesbian, gay and bisexual people and those questioning their sexuality. Providing information, support, advice, education and training. |
Youth services |
| North West Kent Countryside Partnership |
The North West Kent Countryside Partnership works throughout the boroughs of Bexley, Sevenoaks, Dartford and Gravesham on a wide variety of community conservation projects. Our Partnership has four main strands of work: Landscape & Biodiversity |
Volunteering group (conservation activities) |
| BexleySNB (Bexley Safer Neighbourhood Board) |
The main function of the Bexley Safer Neighbourhoods Board is to keep Bexley borough safe by providing a public forum by holding public meetings, where local people and groups can have direct access to senior officers from the police, the local council and other statutory agencies and have constructive discussion and debate about policing, crime and community safety issues in the borough. The board also works closely with the Safer Neighbourhoods Teams and ward panels in the borough. |
Public meetings - providing Information on local crime and safety issues |
| Bexley Gujarati Samaj |
To provide advice and support to the Gujarati community in Bexley to help integrate into the British Society. |
Yoga classes (Tues eve & Wed pm) |
| Rotary Club of Sidcup |
Rotary International has a membership of over 1,000,000 people worldwide, and is able to be a considerable force for good. Rotarians give service in their local communities and on a national and international scale. They also raise funds for local and international projects, and contribute to their own charity, The Rotary Foundation (TRF). The Rotary Foundation then makes available grants to the donor Rotary clubs for larger projects, sometimes matching the money raised locally by their donor clubs. The Rotary motto is “Service above Self”. |
Supporting local, national and international charities. Working in the local community with reading in schools. |
| St Lawrence Charitable Fund |
The Charity tries to help individuals and groups within the borough to obtain the financial and practical assistance they need to function effectively. |
The Fund’s objectives include:- |
| St Mary the Virgin Church, Bexley |
St Mary the Virgin Church, Bexley is a Church of England Church which works together with St John's in Bexley as the established church to serve the parishioners of these two parishes. |
Regular Sunday worship according to Church of England services. |
| Woodlands Farm Trust (The) |
Woodlands Farm is a fragment of London's old countryside that offers a unique opportunity to conserve heritage landscape and promote biodiversity. At heart this is a conservation and development project. |
• Volunteering opportunities in garden, with animals and in administration. |
| St Michael's Community Centre Association |
To provide halls for hire to the local community. |
• Bexleyheath Stage School of Dancing |
| Bexley Christian Life Centre |
We are a Church with a community heart reaching out to people of all ethnic groups, young and old, families and the isolated with the love of Christ. |
The Diamond Jubilee Club for over 65’s with music as reminiscence therapy meeting on the last Tuesday of each month 10.30am – 12.15pm |
| Bexley Women's Aid |
Bexley Women’s Aid provide refuge accommodation and outreach support to women and children experiencing domestic abuse. |
Refuge accommodation |
| Bexley Voluntary Service Council |
BVSC is the Council for Voluntary Service (CVS) set up to offer support to organisations and residents of the London Borough of Bexley. BVSC is the 'go to' place for all things community and voluntary related; whether you want to volunteer your time, are looking for volunteers or want to find out about local organisations. |
Supporting the work of voluntary organisations and volunteers in Bexley. |
