London Girl
Find friends, business connections and things to do in London!
With nearly 7,000 London Girls, the team are planning something for everyone! We host monthly coffee meet-ups, brunches, panel events drinks nights and a book club. Led by Community Managers Charlotte Moyle and Holly Abigail, over the past few. years, London Girl has helped hundreds of women find new friends, housemates, travel buddies and business connections. They’ve also picked up a whole load of recommendations for London businesses, restaurants, bars and events to support.
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Charities and Support Networks in London
Refuge
Refuge’s core aim is to support any individual who has experienced violence and abuse, providing a range of specialist services to help survivors access safety and rebuild their lives. Refuge’s expert staff work closely and confidentially with every individual to develop a bespoke support plan as they understand that each person’s circumstances and needs are different. If any woman is unsure of which service she wants or needs then Refuge will support her in exploring her options.
“No matter what your experience-domestic violence, sexual violence, ‘honour’ based violence, forced marriage, FGM, human trafficking or modern slavery- we are here to support you.”
Phone: 0207 395 7771
Website: www.refuge.org.uk
Instagram: @refugecharity
Solace
Solace find creative and innovative ways to support thousands of women, children and young people each year from prevention and crisis, to recovery and independence. Services include:
Advice and Support
Emergency accommodation
Therapeutic services
Rape crisis
Solace additionally offer support and accommodation for women and children who are sexually exploited through trafficking and prostitution and another project to assist homeless women and children. Solace run 19 refuge centres across London: Barnett, Bexley, Camden, Enfield, Islington. Haringey, Southwark and Waltham Forest.
Phone: 0808 802 5565
Website: www.solacewomensaid.org
Instagram: @solacewomensaid
We're building smaller London Girl communities, made up of the different boroughs.
One of the most isolating factors of living in London is that you can live and work far away from the people and places that you know in the city. In some ways, it's amazing to live in such a vast city, but the reality can be very different: travelling is expensive, the commute takes longer and it can be hard to find the chunk of time you need to just have a cuppa with someone.
Whether you've lived in the city your whole life, moved here a few years back or just got the keys to your London pad yesterday, London Girl can be the guide you need to embrace life in the way that you really want to.
Imagine you're living in Ealing, working in Notting Hill and have friends across the city. With London Girl, you can get to know your neighbours over an Ealing Girl coffee on a Sunday, find the "I've had a terrible day, please meet me after work" friends at the Notting Hill Girl midweek drinks and scout out new areas to move to or find girls to go to gigs, gaming nights or dance classes within the areas that the various events are based.
Help us create London Girl in a way that represents all women living in the city.
In the same way that we let our community managers for other cities make decisions over when, what and where their events are, we're giving London Girls as much control as possible over where their communities will be.