Adanna Womens Support group

Who we are

Adanna Women’s Support Group is a grassroots community group which was established in 2008. We aim to alleviate poverty in women and children through education, business enterprise and support for the benefit of mainly (but not exclusively) BAME women, women from immigrant communities and young parents living within the East London area of barking and Dagenham, Redbridge, Newham and Walthamstow.  We also provide an educational summer school for the children and financial education for disadvantaged communities to enable them to alleviate poverty and participate more in society.

We provide information and advice drop in sessions in the areas of women’s empowerment, raising confidence, employment, Relationships and debt.

We also run a women’s forum which is in the form of a workshop/seminar 10 times a year. With an annual women’s event in March around International Women’s Day.

We have a Befriending service and a mentoring service for women.

Every year we run a week long summer school for school children