National Lottery Community Fund Awards Two-Year Grant to Continue Peer Support Café in Westminster
London, October 2025 – The Abdul Majeed Educational Trust (AMET) is proud to announce that it has been awarded £19,900 from The National Lottery Community Fund to continue and expand its Peer Support Café at Church Street Library, Westminster, over the next two years.
The project provides a safe, multilingual, and welcoming space for refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants, especially those who speak Arabic, Amharic, or Tigrinya as their first language. Each weekly session combines interpreted peer support, refreshments, and interactive workshops covering topics such as health access, domestic violence prevention, budgeting, women’s wellbeing, creative therapy, legal rights, and digital literacy.
Over the next 24 months, AMET will deliver 90 weekly sessions, supporting more than 1,000 participants. The project aims to reduce isolation, improve wellbeing, and strengthen community resilience among newly arrived and long-term excluded residents.
“This two-year National Lottery funding ensures continuity for one of Westminster’s most inclusive wellbeing projects,” said Dr Eiman Abd Almonim Khidir, Community Engagement Coordinator at AMET. “It allows our community members, many of whom have faced isolation, trauma, and language barriers, to feel heard, supported, and empowered to rebuild their lives.”
This award follows earlier support from The National Lottery Community Fund in January 2024, which first launched the Peer Support Café. The project was then sustained with funding from Islamic Relief between August 2024 and June 2025, allowing AMET to build strong community relationships and deliver life-changing support to hundreds of residents.
The new funding ensures the café can continue to bring people together, address early-stage challenges like housing, health, and domestic violence, and strengthen ties between excluded communities and local services such as the NHS, Citizens Advice, and Westminster Council.
AMET thanks National Lottery players and The National Lottery Community Fund for recognising the importance of this work and investing in inclusion, wellbeing, and resilience across Westminster.
“We’re proud to see the Peer Support Café continue to grow,” said Naglaa Sadik Ahmed Mustafa, Secretary of the Abdul Majeed Educational Trust and Director of Naglaa’s World Ltd (www.naglassworld.com), a professional translation and interpretation company supporting migrant and refugee communities. “Language should never be a barrier to wellbeing or opportunity. Our collaboration ensures that everyone, whatever their first language, can fully participate and access the services they need.”
About Abdul Majeed Educational Trust (AMET)
The Abdul Majeed Educational Trust (AMET) is a Westminster-based charity supporting refugees, asylum seekers, and underserved migrants, particularly those who speak Arabic, Amharic, and Tigrinya.
AMET provides peer support cafés, women’s wellbeing hubs, and culturally safe health and education workshops. The charity works closely with Westminster Council, Imperial College London, Oxford University, Citizens Advice, and the BAME Health Forum to bridge the gap between vulnerable communities and essential services.
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