About us
Who we are
Our mission at St. Hilda’s East is to equip our service users with the resilience to navigate modern life. We welcome everyone into our spaces, work together to deliver engaging activities, promote social contact and ultimately enrich lives.
Founded as a settlement in 1889 by the the Guild of Cheltenham Ladies College, today St. Hilda’s East delivers its services from two main sites within Tower Hamlets - a large, friendly Community Centre in Shoreditch, and an Elders Day Centre for the Bangladeshi and other communities, located in Shadwell. We also work in community partnerships and multiple outreach locations throughout the Borough to provide opportunities to connect and support people of all ages from all walks of life.
We deliver stay and play activities for preschool children and their familieis, youth programmes, wellbeing activities for women, a food coop, social activities and empowering support for older people, free legal and welfare advice, and volunteering opportunities.
Our culture and values
St Hilda's East's Vision:
A world where everyone in our community thrives, feeling connected to those around them and confident in their life prospects
Our Values:
- We are approachable and always sensitive to our diverse community, treating everyone with empathy and dignity.
- We are responsive to the needs of our community, offering support, expertise and connecting them to people, tools and opportunities that allow them to flourish.
- We are constantly evolving, striving to learn and improve how we support the wellbeing of every generation who has lived their lives with us.
Equality, diversity and inclusion policy
St Hilda's East is committed to racial justice and wider inclusion and diversity. We are working towards a goal where our team fully reflects the diversity and difference in lived experiences of our local community.