Welcome
We’re a community Arts and Wellbeing Centre in Bethnal Green.
We believe in the transformative power of the arts and community connection to impact people’s physical and mental health and wellbeing.
Our Creative Health Tree Model is at the core of everything we do, championing an ever-growing relationship between cultural organisations and the health and wellbeing sector.
St Margaret’s House:
A home for creative health
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Our cafe offers affordable vegan dishes, locally-ground coffees and sweet treats. We offer a vibrant space with a rolling programme of visual art exhibitions and a peaceful, award-winning garden. We also host many of the events of the Arts and Wellbeing programme in the cafe in the evenings.
Our vegan cafe
Ayoka is our charity boutique: a treasure trove, full to the brim with secondhand delights. You can get your hands on affordable designer and vintage clothes, homewares, antiques and books. You’ll find us next door to the main SMH building. All proceeds from our charity shop go back into supporting our programme.
Our charity boutique
The Canvas
The Canvas is a studio designed to support small companies, charities, groups, individuals, artists, and practitioners in developing and thriving. The perfect small space to hire at an affordable rate to run your activity or event when an ample space is just not necessary, but you need a professional space.
Our wellbeing space
The Create Place
The Create Place is our flexible community arts space. It serves as a launch pad for starting a creative project that benefits your community and a space for people to come together, share skills, create, and have fun. With a range of community workshops and events, there is something here for everyone.
Our creativity hub
Hire a Space at St Margaret’s House
From our Edwardian board room and converted chapel to our large hall and small cabin, we have a diverse selection of meeting rooms and event spaces available to hire on an affordable, ad-hoc basis.
We also offer affordable office space for community, charity and grassroots organisations in our superb Grade II listed Georgian premises in Bethnal Green, Tower Hamlets.