# ALTERNATIVES TRUST EAST LONDON

## Details

- **Country:** England &amp; Wales
- **Charity number:** 1103724
- **Other names:** ALTERNATIVES, ALTERNATIVES CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTRE
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** Other
- **Registered:** May 12, 2004
- **Register:** https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&amp;p_p_lifecycle=0&amp;p_p_state=maximized&amp;p_p_mode=view&amp;_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_regId=1103724


## Contact

- **Address:** St. Edmunds Church, 464 Katherine Road, LONDON
- **Postcode:** E7 8NP
- **Phone:** 020 7476 8215
- **Email:** alternatives@altel.org.uk
- **Website:** www.altel.org.uk



## Activities

**Objects:** A) To provide accessible mental health support for marginalised disadvantaged women within Newham, addressing such issues including domestic abuse, trauma, poverty, parental challenges, pregnancy, miscarriage or child loss. B) To relieve the needs of women experiencing destitution including those with asylum-seeker and refugee status, homelessness or insecure housing and with no recourse to public funds or living in poverty; by providing advocacy, community, education and holistic support.C) To provide vulnerable mothers with holistic support to address intergenerational cycles of trauma for the ongoing benefit of themselves, their families and the wider community. D) The relief of unemployment for the benefit of women in such ways as may be thought fit, including assistance to find employment and volunteering opportunities.

**Activities:** Alternatives provides mental health and holistic wellbeing support to marginalised women, and by extension their families, living in Newham. We do this by offering free and accessible talking therapy, through advocacy support and community projects and by providing meaningful volunteering and employment opportunities.




## Classification

- **How:** Provides Services, Provides Advocacy/advice/information, Other Charitable Activities
- **What:** The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Economic/community Development/employment
- **Who:** Other Defined Groups, The General Public/mankind



## Geography

- **Area of benefit:** NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE GREATER LONDON
- Barking And Dagenham
- Newham
- Tower Hamlets
- Waltham Forest





## Trustees

| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|---|---|
| **Natalie Robinson** | Chair | Sept. 24, 2024 |
| Francesca Ojefua |  | Dec. 6, 2018 |
| Funmilade Aloutade |  | March 16, 2023 |
| Lincyenthe Joan Dallas |  | July 16, 2024 |
| Ruth Schwegmann-Fielding De Barros |  | May 21, 2024 |
| Vida Boateng |  | May 21, 2024 |




