There are around 1,000 voluntary and community organisations based in Westminster, with 600 providing services to Westminster’s communities.
Westminster’s voluntary sector employs 2,250 full time and 1,400 part time staff…but over half rely completely on volunteers.
High rents and property prices mean that affordable meeting space, or offices in Westminster are hard to find.
Westminster’s voluntary and community sector has an annual turnover of £198 million…but over half have a turnover of less than £10,000 a year.
Our city…
Around 245,000 people live in Westminster…but the population grows to over one million during the daytime.
Pockets of deprivation sit alongside areas of relative wealth – the whole of Church Street, Queen’s Park, Harrow Road and Westbourne wards are in the 20% most income deprived areas in England.
Over 100 community languages are spoken in the city.
One in three Westminster residents belongs to a black or minority ethnic community.
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