The Angelou Centre

The Angelou Centre was founded in 1993 and is a registered charity and a limited company. Based in the west end of Newcastle, an area of high deprivation and with the highest concentration of Black and minortised people in the city. We work regionally and nationally (refuge accommodation) delivering a range of holistic women-only services for Black and minoritised women across the North-East.

Established to advance economic inclusion for women excluded due to disadvantages of race and gender, our holistic approach uncovered the violence and abuse experienced by women as significant barriers to achieving their full potential. Services and support for survivors of abuse have expanded substantively, over the last decade, responding to the needs and demands of service users. 

Thier ‘wrap around’ support, developed in partnership with a wide range of relevant statutory and voluntary agencies, also addresses related problems of homelessness, poverty, mental health and insecure immigration status and empowers women and children to rebuild their lives free from violence and abuse.

Support women through a team of multilingual and culturally competent workers and volunteers with wide-ranging knowledge and racialised lived experience of the barriers to inclusion and independence (including violence and abuse) faced by Black and minoritised women in cross-cultural contexts.

As a black feminist organisation, they promote social justice for black and minoritised women and girls that supports their development and/or recovery, whilst addressing social inequality, structural and institutional discrimination.

Their work retains a critical eye on the intersecting oppression that Black and minoritised women and girls face at personal, community and structural/institutional levels in order to ensure that safety, representation and voice of black and minority women and girls is central to the work they do.

• Support
• Economic Inclusion
• Empowering Women
• Fighting Oppression
• Promoting Social Justice