Our Purpose
Practical help for people facing poverty or financial hardship.
Our Values
Dignity, trust and inclusion.
Our Reach
Rooted in Ilford. Working across England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland — and with people displaced by the war in Ukraine.
Practical help when language or money is the barrier
IPFWORLDWIDE relieves poverty and financial hardship, with grants towards energy costs, household expenses and essential transport.
We also promote social inclusion among migrants and refugees who are shut out by language barriers or by financial hardship, through translation services, grants for food, and advice and support about accessing essential services, including healthcare.
How We Can Help
Language should not stand between you and a doctor or a solicitor. We translate documents and interpret at appointments so you can be understood.
If you cannot explain yourself at an appointment, the wrong decision can be made about your health, your benefits or your home. We interpret at appointments with doctors, hospitals, the council and other services, translate letters, and help with the forms and the fare.
We help you understand letters, complete forms, and gather the documents services ask for. Where you need legal or immigration advice, we help you find a regulated adviser.
We provide grants towards food, energy bills, household costs and essential transport if you are facing poverty or financial hardship.
Our support is free. If we can’t help, we’ll tell you honestly and refer you to a service that can.
Our Work
Emergency Accommodation
We help people fleeing domestic violence reach local authority homelessness teams and refuge services, and we can meet essential costs while longer-term support is arranged.
Legal Support
We help refugees and people seeking asylum find regulated immigration advisers and solicitors, and where we can, we help meet the cost of representation.
Our Story
2015 - We started in Ilford, helping neighbours with letters, forms & fares.
2020 - We ran a Covid response across the borough.
2025 - We registered as a charity in England and Wales.
Today - The same work, reaching further.
Our Covid Response
Working with Redbridge Council, we reached people in poverty across the borough: families, and people sleeping rough. Many had no recourse to public funds. We delivered supermarket vouchers, food parcels, help with essential costs, and sleeping bags and blankets.
Support Our Work
Every pound goes to people facing poverty or financial hardship. We provide grants towards food, energy costs, household expenses and essential transport, and we translate, interpret and help people reach healthcare and the other services they are entitled to.
Donate
Give once or monthly. Gift Aid adds 25p to every pound if you are a UK taxpayer.
Help Reduce Poverty Lottery
£1 a week for the chance to win up to £25,000.
Every entry funds our charitable work.
IPF Community Kitchen
Order food online. Every order helps fund our charitable work with people facing poverty or financial hardship.
Volunteer
We need translators, admin support and trustees. Tell us what you can offer. If you speak another language, that is often all it takes. Tell us what you can offer.
Partner With Us
Working together across east London
We work with local councils, employers, GP surgeries, hospitals, advice services, and places of worship across east London, including mosques, churches, temples, gurdwaras and synagogues.
If your organisation meets people who need an interpreter, help with paperwork, or a grant towards food or energy bills, get in touch. We can take referrals, and we can come to you.
Contact UsOur Projects
Initiatives in development that will extend our reach.
IPF Community Hub - In development RM16, Thurrock. A planned community centre where people can walk in for help, and come together for inclusion activities, festivals and celebrations.
About the Community Hub
IPF Children’s Health and Support Centre - In development A planned programme to improve health, wellbeing and independence for children with disabilities.
About the Children’s Centre