Westminster Befriend a Family (WBAF) provides practical and emotional support to families, helping to prevent breakdown and separation. 

For 22 years we have been breaking cycles of disadvantage and social exclusion. If your family – or a family that you know of, living in one of the Westminster wards – is going through difficulties and is in need of support, please contact us  (More…)

 


 
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Are you a resident of Westminster, with children, and in need of benefits advice, respite, seeking refuge, or being made homeless? If that sounds like you, read on. We would like to help. (More…)
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Our charity’s director, Jacqueline Crooks, has won Westminster City Council’s Living City award for leadership in community services. Jacqueline beat 100 nominees for the award, which recognised her “unstinting commitment to raising money, training volunteers and using her leadership skills to arrange help for so many isolated families”. Westminster City Council [more]



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