Bringing people with learning disabilities together
Our LDN London Community Hubs bring people together, tackle social isolation and address the effects of poverty on some of the capital’s most vulnerable people.
At the Hubs we provide a range of activities and workshops, teaching crucial life skills and helping people with learning disabilities to play a bigger role in their community. We want to tackle the inequalities faced by people with learning disabilities.
Workshops include:
We work in partnership with other organisations to deliver sessions. These include: Westminster City Council, SASH, Westminster Talking Therapies, Matrix and The Advocacy Project.
If there are particular sessions you would like us to run, please come and talk to us or email us here. We invite guests and experts in to run sessions with us.
Our LDN Community Hubs are free to access. Sessions take place at 389a Harrow Road and Victoria Library in Westminster, as well as at The Greenwood Centre in Camden. We sometimes run sessions or trips at other locations across London.
If you would like to come to The Hub, simply fill in our referral form below and we will get in touch with you. You can also call our team member Laurence on
07715 311 399.
Our Westminster Hubs are funded by Westminster Council, as well as grants and donations. We run an action-packed programme of activities and workshops both at our Hub and at local community venues. Workshops are FREE to attend.
We have a co-production group made up of 10 Hub members who help to design the programme of workshops and ensure that we are offering sessions people want and need.
Our Camden Hub is funded by donations and grants and offers a programme of workshops and activities. Workshops are FREE and open to everyone with a learning disability – you don’t have to live in Camden to attend our sessions.
We work out of The Greenwood Centre, a community space designed for people with learning disabilities. We currently run a few activities each month in Camden.
If there is something you would like us to be doing at our Camden Hub, then please get in touch and we will see what we can do.
Click the button below to view our current programme of activities at the Camden Hub.
Londoners who have learning disabilities are being left out of their communities.
Imagine if the things you did every day were much more difficult. If there were constant barriers and struggles to doing everyday tasks that you take for granted: travelling, socialising, telling the time, paying bills. This is what it’s like for people we support. People with learning disabilities struggle to understand new or complex information and need help with everyday tasks. Learning disabilities affect someone for their whole life. Imagine having to do that on your own.
At LDN’s Community Hub, we know it’s vital to support people for a long time. But we need funding to do this. Sadly, due to a lack of funding, many people with learning disabilities don’t get the help they desperately need. Without this they often struggle with poor physical health and mental health, loneliness and isolation, poverty and are the victims of crime and exploitation.
Many people don’t get the chances in life they should have: to work, to make friends, get good and dignified healthcare, and to have a place to call home.
We want to change this – helping people with learning disabilities to make genuine connections and to be safer and healthier in their communities. Through our groups and activities, we help people feel like valued members of the community and become more confident and independent.
At the heart of what we do is tackling the social isolation and loneliness that many people with learning disabilities experience.
We also educate society about learning disabilities and bring about change.
We want to live in a London where people with learning disabilities are fully included in everyday life.
A huge thank you to our funders and sponsors of our LDN Community Hubs.
If you would like to join our amazing family of donors and supporters please click here.
Luana Baptista, Head of Community Engagement
My name is Luana and I am originally from the island of Madeira. I have worked at The Hub for a year and have enjoyed meeting lots of new people and helping them to be part of the community. In my spare time I play basketball for a team called the Tower Hamlets Trojans.
Laurence Swan, Community Engagement Manager
I’m Laurence and I am originally from Scotland. I started as a support worker at LDN 26 years ago. My job at The Hub has been one of my most exciting so far. I now live with my husband in North London and enjoy the theatre, art and visiting galleries, films and music.
Colin Doyle, Community Engagement Co-ordinator
I’m Colin, the newest member of the Hub team. I recently moved to London from the Northeast of England. I’ve been on some great trips with The Hub so far. I enjoy playing the guitar in my free time.
We offer this service in the following areas
160 Buckingham Palace Rd, London SW1W 9TR
37 Greenwood Pl, London NW5 1LB
To find out more contact
Laurence Swan, Community Engagement Manager
lswan@ldnlondon.org | 07715 311 399
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