Penguin

HQ: 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London, SW1V 2SA, United Kingdom

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One Housing Foundation

London, UK

- General charitable purposes - Education/training - The advancement of health or saving of lives - The prevention or relief of poverty - Arts/culture/heritage/science - Economic/community development/employment - Recreation - Children/young people - Elderly/old people - People with disabilities - Other charities or voluntary bodies - Other defined groups - Makes grants to individuals - Makes grants to organisations - Provides human resources - Provides services - Provides advocacy/advice/information - Other charitable activities

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The Bright Morning Star Prisons And Homelessness Outreach

London, UK

The bright morning star prisons and homelessness outreach is an award winning, non for profit organisation that has been service Londoners since 2015, Our aims and objectives is the relief and prevention poverty and homelessness across London. The organisation is doing this by running community outreach, Day centre's, coffee morning and Prisons visits to His Majesty Prisons across London. The Bright Morning Star Prisons And Homelessness Outreach head office is Chartharm Court community hall, Canterbury crescent Brixton SW9 7PT. The Day Centre is 1 Opal Street Peddlar Acre Community hall, Kennighton SE11 4HZ Although the organization in base in Lambeth but we Outreach to Homeless, rough sleepers and Prisons inmates in Southwark, Wandsworth, Croydon, West Minister Councils. and Stratford. Our organisation is a first point contact for ex offenders, rough sleepers and the homeless to get support for reintegration after they left prison. We run 5 days a week with the help of our dedicated volunteers, management and staff. The bms activities include coffee morning, food sharing community food service, , food pick up and distribution, prison visit, outreaches, housing advice, benefit advice, sign posting, trainings. art and craft, one to one counselling service and mediating between landlord and tenants. We support, elevate and help to rebuild the lives of the the most vulnerable people in London eg older people, job seekers, those on low income, Assylum seekers, refuges and the homeless people etc. The BMS is a Registered Contractor to Lambeth Council and community hall that we are using in Chartham court belong to the Council that has seen the good work that we do and offer us the space to use. we use the hall 7 days a week for the past 2 years. The Council refurbished the hall and launching was done in August 2025. We continue to partners with Job Centres that attend day centre in Kennington, Streatham and Kennington Job Centre twice a Month, Hygiene Bank, Greggs food Foundation cooperative stores, Pret A Manger Look Ahead homeless shelter, Stockwell probation services, Wandsworth Probation, and healthy living platform Lambeth, Felix Project and Fares hare, St Mathew Estate, Mursel hall, Cooperative store etc

Connecting All Communities Cic

London, UK

We are called Connecting All Communities, a not for profit organisation based in East London of Hackney. CAC aims to tackle segregation and persuade community cohesion to celebrate our similarities and accept our differences to understand and to apperciate individual uniqueness. We are have been providing food parcels and cultural hot meals to residents in and around Hackney. Since the cost of living has increased the demand of our services triples. We would be really greateful to have wonderful volunteers who are able to help us to help others in many different ways such as collecting and delivery our food parcels and cultural hot meals to people who are unable to come to our centres. We also be thankful for volunteers who can help us work behind the seen at the confort of their own homes Although we are registered at Pembury Community centre, we are delivering most of our activities, programs and projects at Banister House community centre in Homerton area. Our work is not only around food but there are many different tasks that we deliver everyday. We are mainly working from home on voluntery based. We would kindly appreciate if you could kindly give back just a little bit of your time, skills and knowledge to the local communities.

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Penguin Volunteering 2022/23

Welcome to the Penguin volunteering page! Purpose is one of our core values at Penguin Random House UK - we want to make the world a better place in both big and small ways. Using our time and talents to volunteer can make a big difference to a charity or local community organisation. It can also have a positive impact on our own personal development, helping us to see the world a little differently and giving us a chance to use our skills in a new environment. For this reason, we support all Penguin Random House UK colleagues to take up to two Volunteer Days every year. Below you'll find a range of volunteering opportunities to get involved with - scroll down to find out more and sign up.

Penguin Volunteering 2023/24

Purpose is one of our core values at Penguin Random House UK – we want to make the world a better place in both big and small ways. Using our time and talents to volunteer can make a big difference to a charity or local community organisation. Penguin colleagues can find a range of live volunteering opportunities below, and these will be updated throughout the 2023/24 academic year. Scroll down to find out more and sign up now!

World Book Day Volunteering 2023

World Book Day is our biggest single volunteering effort each year. Every March over 500 colleagues from Penguin Random House UK volunteer in schools and communities local to our sites and some of the most literacy-vulnerable parts of London. Colleagues deliver storytelling sessions to little ones and reading activities in primary schools. They also facilitate interactive careers workshops with teenagers in secondary schools and host book club discussions with adults in homeless shelters, community centres and care homes.

Penguin Volunteering 2021/22

Welcome to the Penguin volunteering page! Purpose is one of our core values at Penguin Random House UK - we want to make the world a better place in both big and small ways. Using our time and talents to volunteer can make a big difference to a charity or local community organisation. It can also have a positive impact on our own personal development, helping us to see the world a little differently and giving us a chance to use our skills in a new environment. For this reason, we support all Penguin Random House UK colleagues to take up to two Volunteer Days every year. Below you'll find a range of volunteering opportunities to get involved with - scroll down to find out more and sign up.

Penguin Christmas: It Begins with a Book

A boost of confidence, the perfect recipe, the adventure of a lifetime - it begins with a book. But not everyone has equal access to reading, and the COVID-19 crisis has made that inequality more pronounced. At Penguin, we aim to give everyone access to books.

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