Our Purpose
The Walworth Living Room is a community space in Walworth, Southwark where we can meet our friends, get to know our neighbours and strengthen our relationships to each other and to our community.
Lots of societal forces drive us apart–from work demands that leave us little time to socialise, to racism and xenophobia that make us suspicious of our neighbours, to gentrification, economic upheaval or environmental destruction that force us to move away from our communities to find housing or work.
The Walworth Living Room offers an antidote to these destructive forces. It is a comfortable and welcoming “living room” for the neighbourhood where people of all ages and backgrounds can eat, chat, create, learn, or just sit and relax. We aim to create an environment that fosters mutual trust, care and respect amongst diverse neighbours.
The Walworth Living Room offers activities, resources and workshops that support people to:
- Spend time with their friends, family and neighbours
- Meet new people and build new relationships with people of different backgrounds and experience
- Understand the value of social connections for individuals and society and the root causes of social isolation
- Share and practise the skills needed to sustain healthy community in a diverse neighbourhood
- Imagine a more just and beautiful neighbourhood
- Build collective power that enables us to take action or create projects for the benefit of the neighbourhood
