14,000+ people reached every year.
One ecosystem of care.
More than 6,000 young people and 8,000 women and adults engaged every year. 33 interconnected projects across seven hubs, Youth, Women's, Fathers', Health, Housing, plus Research, Artivism and Community Organising strands. Community-owned infrastructure.
Health Justice reached 1,500+ Tower Hamlets residents.
648 received direct support across PCN 7 & 8 · 129 received intensive 1-to-1 care · 83 got a full health check.
The full picture.
Health Justice, 2025/26
Reported across Tower Hamlets PCN 7 & 8
Annual reach
People engaged across the ecosystem
Foundations
Who we are, where we work
What changes when we keep showing up.
Building community infrastructure
Coffee Afrik is no longer simply delivering projects. We are building national community infrastructure, relationships, leadership, knowledge, healing spaces and collective capacity that let communities shape the policies, institutions and resources that affect their lives.
Power devolved, power kept
The Hackney Women's Hub became the first hub fully devolved to community governance in 2024. The Youth Accountability and Governance Board followed. Five paid Young Community Steward roles now share governance across the organisation.
NHS partnership renewed
East London NHS Foundation Trust has commissioned Coffee Afrik continuously since 2019. The Health Justice Programme reached 1,500+ Tower Hamlets residents in 2025–26 across Primary Care Networks 7 & 8.
Communities as knowledge producers
Research and Knowledge Partnerships with QMUL, the NHS Race & Health Observatory and the Violence Reduction Unit. 10 Young Researchers across the Peer Action Collective. Lived experience as methodology, not anecdote.
Trusted with resources
Long-standing relationships with The National Lottery Community Fund, Tudor Trust, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and other significant partners. Investment rooted in relationships, lived experience and community stewardship, not transactional grant cycles.
Supporting other movements
Dozens of grassroots organisations supported through fundraising, safeguarding, governance, research, mediation and organisational development. The infrastructure we build is shared infrastructure.
Numbers show scale.
Voices show change.
Coffee Afrik creates spaces where people who might never have met sit together, share their experiences and realise they are not carrying everything on their own. You leave those conversations feeling lighter and more hopeful than when you arrived.
For a long time, I felt invisible. Coffee Afrik provided not just a programme, but a community. I found women who understood my journey, believed in me and reminded me that my voice has value. Today I am more confident, more connected and I am supporting other women in my community too.
The youth activities gave me somewhere positive to be after school. I learnt new skills, met mentors who believed in me and now I'm looking forward to opportunities I never thought were possible.
Funded, commissioned, featured.
- FUNDERThe National Lottery Community Fund
- FUNDERTudor Trust
- FUNDEREsmée Fairbairn Foundation
- COMMISSIONEREast London NHS Foundation Trust
- PARTNERLondon's Violence Reduction Unit
- PARTNERDecolonising Economics
- PARTNERLand in our Names
- FUNDERCivic Power Fund
- PARTNERLondon Harm Reduction Collective
- PARTNEROpen Collective
- PARTNEREqually Ours
- FUNDERBlagrave Trust
Annual impact reports.
Download our published reports. New documents are added here as they are produced.
Health Justice annual impact report 2024/2025
Purposeful Report 2026
Health Justice Annual Impact Report 2025–2026
Lottery Fund Impact Report 2026
Fund the infrastructure.
Coffee Afrik has built community infrastructure for seven years. We are now scaling devolved governance, expanding the research lab, and seeking three-year unrestricted funding partners.