What does it do?A drop-in centre offering a wide range of advice, information and leisure services for all ages.
Our projects and services include an advice surgery, youth club, mental health project, an elderly peoples luncheon club, library/reading room facilities. We also hold third party surgeries which include housing advice surgery, pensioners surgery, MP surgery and a councillors surgery. Please contact us for details.
The Elderly Peoples Luncheon Club
The NLMCC has been providing an Elderly Luncheon Club for over 60’s since its inception in 1984.
- The men’s luncheon club operates on Friday evenings from 8pm.
- The ladies luncheon club operates from 2-6 pm on Sunday.
The purpose of the clubs are to:
1) Provide a social and lunch club for isolated, older people from
the Muslim communities in Hackney
2) To prevent social isolation
3) To promote independent living
4) To assist older people from the Muslim communities to access appropriate statutory services.
Some of the services/activities we deliver are:
- Full healthy balanced meals
- Health workshops delivered by health professionals
- Day trips to various places of interest
- Urdu Poetry workshops/recitals
- Library/reading room for users to come and read from the available books and newspapers.
- A place to meet, interact with and befriend other people.
- Friendly, general advice and support form our volunteers on issues and concerns the users may have.
- Signposting elderly users to statutory services and bodies for specialist help.