First Love Foundation

We are a registered poverty-tackling charity based in Tower Hamlets. We’ve spent the past 11 years pioneering and embedding an innovative alternative to the way poverty is tackled. We have helped thousands of people facing crisis to get their lives back on track. Our holistic model of support has been cited by the APPG on Hunger and Poverty (2014) as the most effective in tackling poverty anywhere in the UK. Our AQS-accredited service offers rapid, trauma-informed crisis intervention, wraparound support, welfare rights advice and advocacy to resolve the crisis and help carve a path to sustainable living. We help the hardest-to-reach, most marginalised people in our community – those who have given up hope. Through person-centred, meticulous case management, our front-line team capture the underlying issues of each client’s crisis. Through our deep insights, we are able to shine a light on where the system is failing the most vulnerable in society. The people we help are from diverse backgrounds, including BAME, women fleeing domestic abuse, people with disabilities, elderly and isolated people, and low-income white households. One key factor that unites these diverse groups is the overwhelming feeling of being marginalised, left to face their crisis alone, not knowing who to turn to for help. We dedicate our work to throwing them a lifeline. We are experienced in building back a sense of hope in those who are struggling to carry on. With your help we can work with them to carve a meaningful path forward, and start to love life once again. We want to see a Britain without poverty – join us in making this vision a reality.