A movement for community healing.

Building community infrastructure for health justice, youth leadership, women's power and systems change. Rooted in joy, Islam and love. Seven hubs. 33 projects. 14,000+ people reached every year.

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33

projects

7

hubs

14,000+

reached / year

6,000+

young people

8,000+

women & adults

What we do · Where we are

Seven hubs. 33 projects.
One interconnected ecosystem.

Two Youth Hubs. Two Women's Hubs. Programmes across Health Justice, Housing Justice, Research, Artivism and Community Organising. Co-designed with the people they serve, connected as a single ecosystem of community infrastructure.

Tower Hamlets Youth Hub

Young people · 11–25

Hackney Youth Hub

Young people · 11–25

Hackney Women's Hub

Tower Hamlets Women's Hub

Father's Hub

Fathers and men

Health Justice Hub

Adults · SMI focus

Housing Justice Hub

Tenants & residents

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Founder, Coffee Afrik CIC

“Tackling loneliness has to start with healing, and what healing looks like — through love and forgiveness, within culturally competent spaces.”
Abdirahim HassanBBC 1Xtra Future Figure 2023·Cambridge Social Innovation Prize 2025

Funders

Trusted with resources by the people who back the vision.

Latest news.

The social enterprise delivering trauma-informed care and devolving power

The social enterprise delivering trauma-informed care and devolving power

Coffee Afrik CIC has become one of East London's most vital community organisations — and it started with a coffee pot on the Pembury Estate.

Why this matters

Signalled national recognition of the community-infrastructure model, with lived experience treated as methodology, not anecdote.

Read on Pioneers Post

Coffee Afrik, as featured in shado mag

What do we build when the community decides?

shado mag examines how Coffee Afrik empowers women and young people through devolved decision-making and collective governance.

Why this matters

Captures the heart of the vision: community power built through devolution, not delivered top-down.

Read on shado mag

Coffee Afrik, as featured in Hyphen

Coffee Afrik: the east London charity 'rooted in joy, Islam and love'

Hyphen profiles how Coffee Afrik grew from a single crisis cafe into an ecosystem rooted in joy, Islam and love.

Why this matters

Set the tone for how Coffee Afrik is written about: a community-led movement rooted in faith and joy, not a service provider.

Read on Hyphen

For community

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Hubs are open to anyone — no referral, no form, no proof of need. Lived experience matters more than qualifications. Come as you are.

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For funders & partners

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100% transparent Community Bank Account on Open Collective. NHS-commissioned. Cambridge Social Innovation Prize 2025.

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