Blossom Group

Where stories heal. Where people rise.

Blossom Group: Funder Brief

Blossom Group: Funder Brief

We created Blossom Group to stand with people who are too often overlooked, unheard, or pushed aside. Many of the communities we serve face language barriers, mental and physical health challenges, financial pressure, and deep isolation. We step in with care that is personal, culturally aware, and built on trust.

Our Mission

We help people feel safe, connected, supported, and hopeful again. We take a whole person approach that strengthens body, mind, and heart. Our work restores dignity and confidence, and it helps people move forward with stability and purpose.

What We Provide

Community and Belonging
Our Togetherness Café brings people around tables to share food, stories, culture, and friendship. It is a warm space where no one feels like an outsider.

Health and Wellbeing
Through Yoga for All, Walk and Talk, mental health circles, chronic illness support, and creative wellbeing activities, we help people rebuild strength and resilience.

Practical Lifelines
Our Community Box service offers hands on support with benefits, housing, form filling, advocacy, and guidance. We help people navigate systems that often feel confusing and overwhelming.

Our Approach

We never call people hard to reach. We adapt to them. We create spaces that respect identity, heritage, faith, and culture. We work across more than 90 languages through volunteers and community leaders who understand the realities of life on the margins. Trust is our foundation. Human connection is our method.

Our Impact

Our model delivers outcomes that are both measurable and deeply personal.

  • More than 30,000 residents connected to support and community.

  • Over 700 people supported into employment.

  • Around 1,500 learners moved into training and education.

  • 800 young people encouraged into higher education.

  • A volunteer team of more than 100 people speaking 98 languages.

  • Hundreds of health, wellbeing, cultural, and creative sessions delivered across East London.

Every number reflects a life that has regained confidence, community, and hope.

Why We Need Your Support

Your investment strengthens the safety net for people who are often invisible within mainstream services. With your support we can:

  • Expand our Togetherness Café model into more neighbourhoods.

  • Deliver more wellbeing sessions to reduce isolation and support early health prevention.

  • Increase our capacity for one to one advocacy and crisis support.

  • Build pathways that help people move from struggle into stability, education, and work.

When you fund Blossom Group, you invest in people who need doors opened for them. You invest in connection, dignity, and the power of belonging. And you help us keep transforming lives at the heart of our communities.

Our Promise

We will continue to show up with compassion, cultural insight, and relentless commitment. We will keep building communities where every person is welcomed, valued, and supported to grow.

Together, we can help more people blossom.

Blossom Group - What we do

The Largest Diverse Community Gathering Anywhere

Where to Find Us:

Togetherness Café

  • Monday
    ⏰ 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
    📍 Stratford Library, 3 The Grove, Stratford, London, E15 1EL

  • Wednesday
    ⏰ 11:00 AM – 2:30 PM
    📍 Leyton Cricket Ground, 2 Crawley Rd, London, E10 6RJ

  • Thursday
    ⏰ 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
    📍 Redbridge Institute of Adult Education, Gaysham Avenue, Ilford, Essex, IG2 6TD

  • Saturday
    ⏰ 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM
    📍 Pastures Youth Centre, 15 Davies Lane, Leytonstone, London, E11 3DR


The Community Box – Advice Service

  • Wednesday
    ⏰ 12:00 PM – 2:30 PM
    📍 Leyton Cricket Ground, 2 Crawley Rd, London, E10 6RJ

  • Thursday
    ⏰ 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
    📍 Redbridge Institute of Adult Education, Gaysham Avenue, Ilford, Essex, IG2 6TD

  • Saturday
    ⏰ 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM 
    📍 Pastures Youth Centre, 15 Davies Lane, Leytonstone, London, E11 3DR

Every last Sunday of each Month we are at the Waltham Forest Islamic Association 439-451 Lea Bridge Rd, London E10 7EA

 

Our stories come from real people. Every character is inspired by someone’s lived experience, then shaped to show the bigger truths many of us face. We protect identities, but we keep the heart of every story.

Prediabetes and Diabetes

We provide clear, tailored sessions that help communities understand prediabetes and diabetes through simple stories and a holistic approach.
Contact us if you would like us to deliver a session.