Welcome…
Crossroads Women’s Centre in Kentish Town is a disability-accessible, multi-racial community resource. We bring together women from different ages, backgrounds and communities to share experiences, learn from and support each other.
We provide a place of safety and a diversity of self-help services and activities in one place where women are encouraged and can find solutions to problems, even the most difficult – our motto is something can always be done. We support mothers and other carers on whom families and communities depend most to get through the worst of times.
The Centre is a base for several women’s organisations. Men ready to work with women in a mutually supportive way are welcome. Visitors from every age and social background comment on how warm and welcoming the Centre is, and the spirit of co-operation that prevails. It is known as a lively anti-racist, anti-poverty and justice hub.
Opening hours Contact details Urgent help Groups based here What we do Donate, support usFind out about our monthly self-help meetings
All African Women’s Group open to asylum seekers and refugees.
Disabled Mother’s Rights for mothers with visible and invisible disabilities at risk of losing their children.
Support Not Separation for mothers facing unwarranted separation from their children by Social Services or the Family Court.
WinVisible for women with visible and invisible disabilities.
Groups at the Centre can be found here.
Current News & events
Fundraiser for Crossroads Women – listen and buy the ‘Wages Due’ song!
Singer-song writer Gemma Rogers has re-imagined the song, “Wages Due”, written and originally sung by Boo Watson in 1975. Released on Bandcamp, people are asked to pay what you can to download the song. All proceeds go to Crossroads Women.
Boo Watson was a founding member of Wages Due Lesbians in Toronto, Canada. A talented musician, she wrote “Wages Due” aged 17, reflecting her experiences as a young woman who had joined the International Wages for Housework Campaig. The song was an immediate hit.
Press Release from Gemma Rogers here.
Parliament Hill School choose Crossroads as their favourite charity
In May 2024 Year 8 students at Parliament Hill School for Girls invited Crossroads Women to tell them about the Women’s Centre, their chosen charity to put forward for a £1000 prize.
After the talk they put together promotional publicity. Other classes were doing the same for their chosen charities. Each class in the competition then presented to the whole school, which voted on who should get the prize. Our team came second, but their presentation was judged the best! Above is an example of the publicity they put around the school. We are delighted the girls chose the Centre and will stay in touch as they progress through the school.
CROSSROADS film showing at Mayday Rooms
Our film about the Crossroads Women Centre, The Story of Six Buildings, was shown on 23 May 2024 as one of two films at an Archival film night: Taking Space, Making Space! 1970s feminist spatial interventions and radical placemaking in London and NYC” which highlighted the squatted formation of women’s centres. Two women from the Centre, a veteran and a newer volunteer, participated in a packed meeting at the Mayday Rooms for the Q&A.
Climate change: learning from women farmers in Andhra Pradesh, India:
Thursday 20 July 2023, 6-8pm, Swiss Cottage Library, 88 Avenue Rd, London NW3 3HA
What we saw when we visited the women’s self-help groups transforming their communities with natural farming ALL WELCOME.
More information here.
Launch of the Disabled Mothers’ Rights Charter
At Crossroads Women’s Centre Wed 12 July 2023 1- 3pm. Official launch of the Disabled Mothers’ Rights Charter – see here. Disabled mothers speak out and launch our Charter of Rights:
- Disabled women are not unfit mothers.
- End discrimination by social services and the family courts.
- Our legal rights – and our children’s – must be implemented!
- For more information – see here.
- Report in Camden New Journal, 27 July.
Make Kentish Town tube step-free:
Our needs are not “too expensive”! We all need a lift! Don’t let us down!
On Friday 23 June, women from the Crossroads Women’s Centre including pensioners and wheelchair users, mums and babies, members of WinVisible (women with visible and invisible disabilities) joined with Inclusion London and other groups the protest co-ordinated by Camden Disability Action at Kentish Town tube. We are calling for a lift to be installed as part of the planned refurbishment. Transport for London have refused a lift as “too expensive”! This is unacceptable. A lift is essential for disabled and older people, mums/carers with buggies, and more …
No stations near our Women’s Centre have wheelchair access, and the north-bound Kentish Town bus stop is closed while flats are built. People are determined to protest until we win the lift – #KentishTownStepFree.
Hear heartfelt chants. Sign the petition here.
Eleanor Rathbone: the Mother of Child Benefit, an oral history project:
Click here to read the publication!
50 Years Old…
The first six years of the Women’s Centre are featured in the newly launched archives of the Wages for Housework Campaign which celebrates its golden anniversary last year.
The archives can be viewed here at the Bishopsgate Institute.
Teach-in Tuesday 9 January
The women’s centre welcomed 40 women and men to this exciting teach-in with Swati Renduchintala and Meerabi Chunduru. They were inspired by learning in depth how the women’s self-help groups in Andhra Pradesh started, their way of organising and how they are transforming agriculture from chemical to natural farming. See video for more information.
12 March Event : International Women’s Week event at the Crossroads Women’s Centre
Public meeting & livestreamTues 12 March 2024, 12-2pm Every year thousands of children are separated from their mothers by
sexist and racist immigration laws or family courts – causing heartache and
lifelong trauma. See here for more details.
And this is the link for the livestreaming of the below event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?