Welcome
St Margaret’s House:
Your community Arts and Wellbeing Centre in Bethnal Green, East London
Join us for arts workshops, wellbeing sessions, exhibitions, events and much, much more.
Let the transformative power of the arts and community connection impact your physical and mental health and wellbeing.
Enjoy spending time with friends in our vegan Gallery Cafe and exploring our charity shop, Ayoka, to pick up a pre-loved outfit.
What’s on at St Margaret’s House
There’s so much to discover and take part in at St Margaret's House! Our programme will give you the chance to enjoy the arts and support your wellbeing here in Bethnal Green, East London. You can start something new or continue with something you have always enjoyed. Take your pick from arts workshops, wellbeing sessions, exhibitions, live events and more.
From weekly arts and crafts workshops to specialist activities where you can make and learn.
Whether you’re looking for yoga or Pilates or treatment clinics, there’s something for everyone.
The Gallery Cafe has beautiful exhibitions for five weeks; the Chapel hosts weekend exhibitions.
Find out about our monthly and one-off events from Open Mic to D/deaf and Art Cafes and more.
Lots of afterschool, weekend and holiday activities for children and young people and families.
Other community groups hold their sessions at SMH - fromthe u3a and East End WI to Bender Defenders.
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Our vegan cafe
Our cafe offers affordable vegan dishes, locally-ground coffees and sweet treats. We offer a vibrant space with a rolling programme of visual art exhibitions and a peaceful, award-winning garden. We also host many of the events of the Arts and Wellbeing programme in the cafe in the evenings.
Our charity boutique
Ayoka is our charity boutique: a treasure trove, full to the brim with secondhand delights. You can get your hands on affordable designer and vintage clothes, homewares, antiques and books. You’ll find us next door to the main SMH building. All proceeds from our charity shop go back into supporting our programme.
The Canvas
Our wellbeing space
The Canvas is a calming studio where people can develop and thrive. It’s the perfect small space to hire at an affordable rate to run your activity or event, bringing small groups together to connect, move, or relax. You can attend a range of different wellbeing sessions and clinics here as part of our programme.
The Create Place
Our creativity hub
The Create Place is our flexible community arts space. It serves as a launch pad for starting a creative project that benefits your community and a space for people to come together, share skills, create and have fun. With a range of community workshops and events, there is something here for everyone.
Hire a Space at St Margaret’s House
From our Edwardian board room and converted chapel to our large hall, bright rehearsal studio and small cabin, we have a diverse selection of meeting rooms and rehearsal and event spaces available to hire on an affordable, ad-hoc basis.
We also offer affordable office space for community, charity and grassroots organisations and wellbeing practitioners in our superb Grade II listed Georgian premises in Bethnal Green, Tower Hamlets.