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Press features, announcements, and reflections from Coffee Afrik CIC.

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.

6 March 2026

Read on Pioneers Post

Featureshado 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.

13 February 2026

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FeatureHyphen

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.

11 February 2025

Read on Hyphen

Coffee Afrik, as featured by the Campaign to End Loneliness

FeatureCampaign to End Loneliness

Coffee Afrik: bringing community together over a cup of coffee

An interview with Abdirahim Hassan on using culturally informed hubs to tackle loneliness through healing, indigenous practice and connection.

Why this matters

The origin of our framing: tackling loneliness starts with healing, within culturally competent spaces.

22 February 2023

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Coffee Afrik youth session, as featured in the Hackney Gazette

PressHackney Gazette

Coffee Afrik in Brick Lane providing opportunities for young people

The Hackney Gazette reports on the Brick Lane youth hub reaching more than 300 young people a week through workshops on rights, economics and wellbeing.

Why this matters

Local reporting on the busiest Black-led youth service in Tower Hamlets, meeting young people where they are.

1 November 2022

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Coffee Afrik, as featured in the Big Issue

PressBig Issue

How a grassroots group is reimagining community activism in east London

The Big Issue profiles Coffee Afrik's culturally sensitive, non-enforcement approach to supporting marginalised communities across east London.

Why this matters

One of the first national features to name the model: care that starts inside the community, not delivered from outside it.

19 August 2022

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