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About Us
The Margins Project, based in the Union Chapel, provides a range of vital support services to people facing homelessness, crisis and isolation in our community and beyond.
We provide support to up to 180 people every week. Our services include:
- Sunday Drop-In: Where guests receive a hot meal and can access a range of services to meet their immediate needs such as clothing, showers and laundry facilities
- Advice and resettlement service: Advice workers are available at Sunday Drop-In and at the Winter Night Shelter to help guests find and retain accommodation, to advise them on routes into employment or to advise on benefits to which they may be entitled.
- Winter night shelter: Every Thursday between January and March we welcome up to 24 guests to a warm, dry shelter, along with a hot nutritious evening meal and a hot and hearty breakfast the following morning as part of the Caris Islington Network of night shelters.
- Volunteer-run cafe: We encourage any ex-guests, who feel they are ready, to volunteer at the Margins Project. Volunteering at the Margins Project has helped many of our ex-guests to develop and grow in confidence
- Groups and workshops: We run a variety of groups and workshops throughout the week, allowing our guests to meet up, relax, develop creativity, learn new skills and grow in confidence and self-esteem.
We have a small core team of three staff members:
Margins Project Manager
Laura Michener
Union Cafe Manager
Will Reid
Fundraising Officer
Shernell Durrant
We have a small number of session workers who help to run the Union Cafe, Sunday Drop-In and Cold Weather Shelter
We also have a large group of wonderful volunteers, without whom the Margins Project would not be able to run. We very much appreciate this and are all extremely inspired by their hard work and dedication. Many of our volunteers are ex-service users of the project, who, once back on their feet, have been keen to ‘give something back’. We have around 25 core volunteers who help to run the Sunday Drop-In, Cold Weather Shelter and Union Cafe.
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