LONDON BLACK WOMEN'S PROJECT LIMITED

What LONDON BLACK WOMEN'S PROJECT LIMITED does

London Black Women's Project Limited (LBWP) is a UK-registered charity (Charity Number 1001834; Company Number 2393931) and specialist service-delivery non-profit that provides emergency refuge accommodation, confidential counselling, legal advice, and dedicated children and young people services to Black, Asian and minoritised women and girls who have experienced domestic or sexual violence and abuse. Founded in 1981 as Newham Asian Women's Collective (later Newham Asian Women's Project) and renamed to LBWP on 25 November 2015, the organisation has operated continuously for over 40 years and is women-only and women-led. Operations centre on seven refuges (six in the London Borough of Newham and one in Haringey) providing 51 bedspaces of emergency safe accommodation, plus confidential counselling delivered in person or via secure video platforms in English, Bengali Sylheti and Dhaka, Punjabi, Arabic, Yoruba, and Luganda. The organisation also runs the pan-London Safe Haven project on legal options to report sexual harassment, a GP training and advice service in Newham, and partnership programmes with Cafcass, Women's Aid, Imkaan, East Thames Housing Group, and Oya.

The organisation operates with a lean core team of approximately 10 employees, supplemented by freelance counsellors, and uses no proprietary technology platform — services are delivered via in-person refuge staffing, telephone, email, and secure video. Technology touchpoints are limited to an informational website (lbwp.co.uk) and a donation sub-site hosted via iRaiser on AWS infrastructure in Europe with two levels of encryption. Certifications include the Advice Quality Standard (Housing and Domestic Violence, 2015), Women's Aid National Quality Standard (2015), Customer First Quality Mark Standard (accredited with excellence three consecutive times from 2010), and an Ofsted Outstanding grade for the training service (2007). No patents, trademarks, AI/ML capabilities, or commercial customer logos are referenced.

The business model is grant-and-donation funded. Revenue streams consist of grant funding from Comic Relief, the Big Lottery Fund, the London Boroughs of Newham and Haringey, and central government, supplemented by individual donations (one-off and recurring via the iRaiser/PayPal-enabled platform) and a smaller training services stream delivered to frontline professionals across criminal justice, police, social services, education, housing, and the voluntary sector. Services are provided free of charge to beneficiaries — there is no pricing model — and go-to-market is community-led through self-referrals, organisational referrals, and partnerships with statutory bodies and GP practices. Distribution is regional, focused on London, particularly the boroughs of Newham and Haringey, with the Safe Haven project extending reach pan-London.

Name

LONDON BLACK WOMEN'S PROJECT LIMITED

Legal name

London Black Women's Project

Website

https://lbwp.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

1981

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

London Black Women's Project Limited is a UK-registered charity operating seven refuges (51 bedspaces) across Newham and Haringey to deliver emergency accommodation, counselling, legal advice, and children and young people's services to Black, Asian and minoritised women and girls affected by domestic or sexual violence.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Women's Refuge and Domestic Violence Support Services

NAICS

Temporary Shelters (624221), Emergency and Other Relief Services (624230), Community Housing Services (62422)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Domestic Violence & Abuse Support Services (BPAGAEAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Protection, Child Protection & Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Response (BPAGAAAG), Protection Services (GBV, Child Protection, Safeguarding) (BPADAHAF), Protection Services (GBV, Child Protection, Legal Aid) (BPADADAH)

Keywords

• Domestic violence support
• Refuge accommodation services
• Counselling services
• Women's charity services
• Specialist legal advice

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Grant Funding: Majority of services are grant funded from various charitable foundations and government bodies including Comic Relief, Big Lottery Fund, London boroughs of Newham and Haringey, and central government.
2. Donations: Individual monetary donations from public supporters, including one-off and regular donation options available through the donate page.
3. Training Services: Training and awareness raising services delivered to frontline professionals across criminal justice, Police, social services, education, housing, VCS, and other sectors on violence against women and girls including harmful practices. Previously operated a training service from 1995-2011 providing courses including ESOL, computer literacy and childcare.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

LBWP provides emergency refuge accommodation, confidential counselling, legal advice, and integrated support services for Black, Asian and minoritised women and girls who have experienced domestic or sexual violence and abuse. The charity operates seven refuges (six in the London Borough of Newham, one in Haringey) providing 51 emergency bedspaces, alongside pan-London legal and safeguarding initiatives delivered in multiple community languages including English, Bengali Sylheti and Dhaka, Punjabi, Arabic, Yoruba, and Luganda.

Product overview

London Black Women's Project (LBWP) is a specialist, women-only charity offering a portfolio of integrated support services for Black, Asian and minoritised women and girls who have experienced domestic or sexual violence and abuse. The core offering comprises emergency refuge accommodation with on-site caseworkers, confidential counselling available in multiple community languages, integrated legal advice services including the pan-London Safe Haven project, and dedicated children and young people support through a whole-family approach. Additional services include GP Training and Advice for healthcare professionals and an online donation platform. The services are designed to work together holistically, with refuge residents able to access counselling, legal advice, and children's services through a single organization, reflecting a trauma-informed, empowerment-based framework.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• Up to 35 women per year referred to other refuges due to lack of bed space in Newham
• +1 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• OyacoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023LBWP expanded its projects and services for women across London through strong partnerships with Oya.
• IMKAANcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 1998NAWP (now LBWP), along with the Asian Women's Resource Centre in Brent, secured funding to develop IMKAAN. The aim was to develop and provide resources in support of Black women's refuges. Today, IMKAAN is an independent second tier organisation and LBWP continues to have a successful collaboration and working relationship with them.
• East Thames Housing Group (now East Thames Housing Association)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 1996Opened a second stage refuge in partnership with East Thames Housing Group providing housing support to women under a model of semi-independent and independent living.
• CafcasscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborating with Cafcass on their Domestic Abuse Policy.
• Women's AidcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborating with Women's Aid to create and distribute the National Children's Pack for use in refuges. Also involved in co-production activities including collaboration to develop a national CYP pack.
• GP Practices in NewhamcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLBWP is working with GP practitioners and health centres in Newham to promote understanding and effective response to domestic abuse (including harmful practices). Building relationships and partnerships with GP surgeries to enable health professionals to talk to women about their experience of abuse and respond, record, safety check and refer appropriately.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Refuge: National domestic violence charity operating a large network of refuges and the 24-hour National Domestic Abuse Helpline. Comparable core service (refuges, helpline, advocacy) but at much greater scale and broader demographic remit than LBWP's specialist niche.
• Women's Aid: National federation of domestic violence service providers; LBWP is a member organisation and holds the Women's Aid National Quality Standard. Operates at federation/policy level rather than direct refuge delivery.

Direct peers

• Sistah Space: East London-based specialist organisation supporting women and girls of African/Caribbean heritage affected by domestic and sexual abuse. Closely aligned with LBWP's mission, beneficiary profile and trauma-informed ethos.
• Asian Women's Resource Centre (AWRC): Brent-based specialist organisation for Asian and minoritised women that co-founded Imkaan with LBWP. Provides refuge, advocacy and empowerment services for a closely overlapping beneficiary population in London.
• Southall Black Sisters: Specialist 'by and for' organisation supporting Black and minoritised women experiencing domestic and sexual violence, with a parallel focus on immigration status and No Recourse cases. Highly comparable service mix and advocacy orientation.
• Imkaan: UK-wide second-tier organisation supporting specialist Black women's refuges, originally co-developed by NAWP/LBWP and the Asian Women's Resource Centre in 1998. Operates in the same 'by and for' domestic violence niche and shares LBWP's founding DNA, making it the most directly comparable peer.

Others

• Women's Resource Centre: Infrastructure body supporting London's women's sector; LBWP actively partners with the Women's Resource Centre for referrals and resource sharing, making it a peer in the broader women's social services ecosystem.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/london-black-women's-project-limited

Compliance6 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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