About Us

St. Margaret's House Settlement is an independent charity based in Bethnal Green since 1889, providing practical initiatives, projects and activities to serve and enable the local community.
The settlement has over fifty office / meeting spaces; halls; shops; a garden and a cafe. More than thirty voluntary and community organisations use it as a base.
St. Margarets is inclusive to all elements of the neighbourhood;- we support the African Women's Welfare Association; Quaker Social Action; The Kipper and Providence Row Homeless Projects; The U-Turn Centre for Vulnerable Women; Tower Hamlets Friends and Neighbours; Tower Hamlets Activity in Retirement Centre; Globe Bengali Mohila Samity; Urban Youth; The Tower Hamlets Somali Association Network; the Clayton Volunteers Association and twenty other worthwhile voluntary and community groups.
In 2008 we started the Tower Hamlets University of the 3rd Age, which now has an independent management committee; Bilan, London's only dedicated Somali shop and Ikosi, a charity shop working for and on behalf of people with sickle-cell and thalassemia. Last year we started the Open Space, a new internship project and a new community development team. We also have regular community events and an outreach programme that has developed relationships with local schools, hospitals and leisure facilities.
St. Margarets hopes to become more financially independent and provide more space with a new-build office/ Neighbourhood Centre. The newbuild would have community space on the ground floor; training and meeting space on the first floor and offices for voluntary organisations on the linked top floor and roof extension. The offices and training spaces would pay for the running costs of the community and meeting spaces. This is a formula we have used very successfully for the past 15 years.
This is the launch of our fundraising appeal for the construction costs of this new space. If you would like to support this project please go to our website www.stmargaretshouse.org.uk or phone our director Tony Hardie on 0208 980 2092.