More than 30 voluntary/community groups use St. Margarets House on a regular basis. Many taking space under a licence agreement, acting as affiliated societies of the House and paying a standard licence fee; some paying what they can afford; many others using space here completely free of charge.

As well as supporting and resourcing affiliated user groups we develop and maintain our own social welfare initiatives: drop-in and self-help groups; art & craft projects; youth work and opportunities for volunteers.

Although St. Margarets is undoubtedly an umbrella organisation, this phrase does less than justice in describing the work undertaken here.

In 1993 we took on an underlease for numbers 15 & 17 Old Ford Road - the Georgian house to the west of our terrace and the small office block to its rear. These properties doubled our capacity.

Community  & Voluntary Groups which have used St. Margarets facilities in the last year:

Account Three Women's Advisory Service; Action Reconciliation Service for Peace; Activity in Retirement Centre; African-Carribean Development Forum; Age Concern; African Women's Welfare Association; Anson Ensemble; Approach T.A.; Art Classes; Bangladeshi Parents and Carers Association; Basement Writers; Beside; Bethnal Green Old People's Welfare Group; Bethnal Green Pensioners’ Group; British Stammering Association; Cephas Street Community Group; Cityside Regeneration; Citizens Advice Bureaux; Christ Disciples Mission; College of Health; Community Organisations Forum; ContinYou; Crossroads Care (Tower Hamlets); Cyprus Street T.A.; Daneford Educational Trust; East London Home Link; East London Lone Parents; Ethnographic Audio Visual Archive; FDE Architects; Gallery Community Café; Glass House Community Centre; Globe Centre; Involvement Consortium; IWLAS; The Kipper Project; LinkAge; LBC Family Group; LifeDance; LONSAS; Look Ahead; LVSTC; The Marigold Project; Maze Drug Education & Rehabilitation Proect; Maze Youth Café; Mile End Hospital; Mohila Samity (Bengali Womens Association); Mostyn Grove T.A.; Music Workshop; Parmiters Educational Trust; Pensioners Social Club; Poor’s Land Charity; Positive Steps; Pottery Classes; PRAXIS; Providence Row; Quaker Social Action; Queen Adelaide's Charity; Queen Mary College; Rathbone Choices; Rathbone Day Centre; St.Clements Daycentre; St.John-on-Bethnal Green; School for Entrepreneurs; Second University House Trust; Self-defence for Asian Women; Soldiers', Sailors' & Airmen's Families Association/Forces Help; Spitalfields Market Training Initiative; Step Ahead; Tower Hamlets Co-operatives Association; Tower Hamlets Sickle-Cell and Thalassaemia Centre; Tower Hamlets Social Services; Tower Hamlets Trades Union Council; Tower Hamlets Women's Aid; Tower Hamlets Health Strategy Group; Tower Project; U-Turn; Victoria Park Square Housing Association; Volunteer Action Tower Hamlets; Winant Clayton Volunteer Association; Worker’ Educational Association; Yoga Classes