by First Love Team | Sep 1, 2017 | Events
My name is Lily and I am 16 years old, living in South West London and until this summer I had never experienced the reality of poverty in the United Kingdom. This summer I spent a week at the First Love Foundation and have learnt some of the most valuable life...
by First Love Team | Jun 8, 2017 | Events
Friday 2nd June saw the launch of the 2017 East End Film Festival, opening with the open air screening of Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise’s classic musical, West Side Story in Tower Hamlet’s most historic Old Spitalfields Market. The event was held in partnership...
by First Love Team | May 19, 2017 | Events
You may have been watching the unfolding story in EastEnders where Denise Fox is facing crisis, after losing her job and has to visit a foodbank. If EastEnders was real life, then Walford would be Tower Hamlets, so Denise would have most likely been referred to our...
by First Love Team | May 11, 2017 | Events
This week is Mental Health Awareness Week #MHAW17 and the theme is ‘Surviving or Thriving?’. Mental health is often an underlying reason to why people are referred to us. It is estimated that 1 in 6 people in the past week experienced a common mental...
by First Love Team | Mar 31, 2017 | Events
This week The Insurance Institute of London’s Young Members’ Committee organised their first ever charity quiz night and kindly chose to support us. The quiz was held at the Steam Wine Bar Restaurant – thank you to Steve and the team for kindly donating the...
by First Love Team | Mar 1, 2017 | Events
There is a new Sainsbury’s store opening near Stepney Green station and we are thrilled to have been chosen as their charity partner! We meet people every week from across the borough of Tower Hamlets who are facing crisis. Over the past week alone, reasons for...
