Community

St. Anne's, Soho is in the centre of one of the world's liveliest urban communities and a mass of cultural difference.

Soho is home to hostels for the homeless, the media industry, an amazing restaurant, bar and club scene, prostitution, the Football Association, the gay and lesbian community, several churches, a school for 149 children, 24-hour culture... and at one time, Karl Marx.

We cannot afford to forget, either, that Soho is home for 5,000 residents.

St. Anne's supports our communities in all sorts of ways. Primarily, of course, by being a parish church, providing a quiet, reflective space where we can accept and welcome each other, worship and be together.

We also support several charities by providing affordable space on a long-term basis: The Soho Society, Centrepoint and the Westminster Advocacy Service for Senior Residents are all based with us. Similarly, we let our space by the hour at affordable rates to scores of local charities and community organisations, providing them with space in Soho that is otherwise hard to come by.

We give financial support to a number of local organisations and charities as well as the Bishop Simeon Trust. Our clergy and congregation are involved in all sorts of different ways with various homeless charities and local organisations. We publish details of our work each year in our Annual Report.

The Soho Community Centre Trust hold a lunch club at St.Anne's every Thursday for Senior Citizens and their friends.

A 2-course meal with coffee is just £3.00. For further information please telephone Janet Vance on 020 7734 1712.

The Soho Community Centre Trust needs more Volunteer Chefs for its Thursday Lunch Club. If you are available to help out for the occasional Thursday, please contact Janet Vance on 020 7734 1712.

Day Trip to Hastings - July 2010