Our Work In Pictures

The CSJ Alliance Team Meet Tony Millar at Whitechapel Mission

Pictured: Zoe Briance, CSJ Alliance Manager, Tony Millar, Director Whitechapel Mission, and Chris Bullivant, CSJ Projects Director.

Tony shows the CSJ the dining room

Whitechapel Mission has a large property just down from Whitechapel tube station which has a large dining room to serve hot breakfast. The mission served breakfast to over 1,700 inidividuals last year.

Engagement

The 8 members of staff are helped by many volunteers. Breakfast is the first point of engagement and allowed the team to help 1,400 homeless individuals with help in getting benefits, accommodation or other next steps training.

A volunteer shifts food

The Mission receives generous donations of food. The charity is well established within the community, dating from the 1890s.

A homely touch.

Those who've enjoyed a hot breakfast and need to talk through other problems can come to the office. This is set up as a homely kitchen so that it is a non-threatening environment.

Overflow

This mission received clothes donations through a drop off hatch available to the public in the street. All clothes are cleaned, ironed and stored by size ready for guests to take what they need.

Food storage

The Mission does not receive any state funding which provides it with an independent voice to speak up for the homeless. In this photo, the collection from the harvest festival.

Tony Millar

Tony is one of only six directors that have run the Whitechapel Mission in over 130 years. Originally set up to help "Oliver Twist" type characters in the 1890s, the charity's beneficiaries are on average 25 years old, 80% male and 50% white, 20% Afro-Carribean, 20% recent East European arrivals, 10% Bangladeshi.