Our Community focus is on helping to eradicate poverty in London. The League’s community programmes are delivered through three Action Teams: Homelessness, Education & Employment and Holiday Hampers.
Homelessness
We offer year-round support for soup kitchens and drop-in centres that support the homeless. We work with emergency winter shelters during the colder months. We help prepare and serve meals, wash up afterwards, spend time chatting with our homeless neighbours, and distribute donated clothing. We also provide monthly help sorting food bank donations, collect warm coats for people in need, and support for women and children at refuges for families escaping domestic violence, homelessness and human trafficking. |
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Education & Employment
| Our Education & Literacy programmes focus on supporting children during their earliest years. We provide children with books, literacy tutoring, engaging arts & crafts programmes, and role models and mentoring.
 JLL volunteers with a variety of programmes, which support social mobility, access to the professions, and developing life skills such as managing a personal budget, building confidence, and helping the unemployed prepare for interviews and jobs.
Two of our long-term partners are Smart Works and Suited & Booted, which provide support to low-income London residents, who are trying to re-enter the workforce. Annually, as part of Little Black Dress Initiative, members run clothing donation campaigns through friends and family, and their workplaces.
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Holiday Hampers
| Holiday Hampers is the Junior League of London’s signature community project, as well as our longest-running community programme. Now in its 27th year, the programme provides personalised hampers filled with gifts, food, toiletries and other essentials for some of London’s most vulnerable populations during the holiday season.
In 2021, we delivered more than 850 hampers serving 1,500 individuals. Learn more about Holiday Hampers.
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