Shpresa Programme is a user-led charity that promotes the participation and contribution of the Albanian-speaking community in the UK and enables its users to play a positive and active role in society. Shpresa runs many projects to support the Albanian-speaking community in London and the UK.
*Children and Young People project - aims to improve the life, education and the wellbeing of the Albanian-speaking children from refugee, asylum and migrant backgrounds as well as enabling their voices to get heard.
- Heritage project (Albanian language , heritage and social action)
- Youth champions (Sport, environment leadership, mental health training social action
- Breaking the chains Project
- Jack Petchey Awards
*Women's Heath and Wellbeing project - aims to improve the chances of the Albanian-speaking women to break the isolation, loneliness and other barriers so they can improve their health, integrate within the society and play a full part in the family, community and society.
- Empower Newham Women project
-Empower Barking and Dagenham Women Project
- Walk Talk watch
*Volunteering project - aims to promote volunteering amongst Albanian-speaking community as way to improve their chances of employment as well as their education and health. At the same time, as an organisation we offer work placements and internships, and team challenges for business teams.
- Still changing our future
*Advice and Advocacy project - aims to provide, in partnership with other providers such as MiCLU, Money A+E, Horizon, Manor gardens , New Europeans advice and advocacy on behalf of the Albanian-speaking clients in various fields - such as benefits, immigration , settlement , debts etc.
- Be the change
*Campaigning - aims to engage, up-skill and empower the Albanian-speaking people living in the UK, to work together to solve the problems that matter to them and for the common good. we are an active member of London citizens
- Living wage
- CLT( housing)
- Settle our status
- Mental health
*Training and Education - aiming to create opportunities and support members to identify and access training locally. we are working in partnership with Nals, Alisar Prospects training , Barking Adult college , Total family coaching etc
* Emergency provision - aims to relief of financial hardship, in particular providing financial support, clothes, food and access to data to the most vulnerable group by working in partnership with partners and local authority such as Newham council,
* Resources and research - aims to share our learning, model of working and resources with other user-led groups to maximise our impact and play our active role in society. we also want to get the voices and lived experiences of our members in research, currently working with UEL, York University , UCL, Liverpool university and Southhampton University
- Into the arms of traffickers
- LOHST
19/02/2026
Sot kaluam nje dite te bukur, grupi i nenave dhe femijet e klasave te gjuhës shqipe, vizituam muzeun e Historisë Natyrore në Londër.
Eshtë një muze që ekspozon një gamë të gjerë ekzemplarësh nga segmente të ndryshme të historisë natyrore. Është një nga tre muzetë kryesorë në Exhibition Road në South Kensington, të tjerët janë Muzeu i Shkencës dhe Muzeu Victoria dhe Albert.
Gezuar Pavaresine e Kosoves🇽🇰🇦🇱
Nje falenderim i vecante per grupin e femijeve nga Projekti i Shkolles Shqipe ne Barking, bashke me mesueset Saime Dushku dhe Valbona Ademaj, dhe mbeshtetjen e prinderve per shfaqjen e mrekullueshme te organizuar per Kosoven. 🇽🇰🇦🇱 Faleminderit per performancen e shkelqyer! Shume krenare per ju te gjithe 🇽🇰🇦🇱
Shpresa Programme ju uron Gezuar🇽🇰!
17/02/2026
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17/02/2026
Happy Independence Day 🇽🇰
Thank you to all the participants who joined this special celebration for the Kosovo Independence Day 🇽🇰
We are proud of our history and our heritage as well as we integrate with dignity to the new home we have created in the UK and the strong community we have built together. 🇦🇱🇽🇰
Luli 🤍🪽 - you are so deeply missed!
we will always remember you, we will always be proud of your legacy and we will continue to do our best to keep Shpresa thriving as you always dreamed and visioned!
The mission continues!
17/02/2026
A warm thank you to the Barking and Dagenham Council representatives for being present to share this moment with us and support our community. 🇽🇰🇦🇱
A special thank you to Ashraf for her inspiring speech and her ongoing support to our community initiatives!
Thank you for joining us and for everything you do!
17/02/2026
Honoured to celebrate 🇽🇰 Kosovo Independence Day with our community at the Barking Town Hall, where we proudly raised the Kosovan flag together.
It was powerful to see so many members of our community, alongside council representatives and supporters, united in celebration, reflection and pride.
This day we also remembered our dear late CEO, , whose vision, courage and dedication built the foundation of Shpresa Programme. Although she passed last year, her spirit continues to guide us every day.
We carry her legacy forward with strength and dignity , continuing our mission to support and empower our community, strengthen voices, and stand up for justice.
Also taking opportunity to raise awareness on the work we do.
From our ; campaign to our campaigning, we remain committed to creating opportunities, equality and hope for all.
Together, we celebrate. Together, we continue. ❤️🇽🇰
17/02/2026
Flag raising ceremony at Barking Town Hall! 🇽🇰
Celebrating with pride and joy!🇽🇰🇦🇱
Gezuar Pavaresine e Kosoves 🇽🇰
17/02/2026
17/02/2026
Nga Shpresa Programme ju urojmë
Gëzuar Pavarësinë e Kosovës të gjithë shqiptarëve, kudo që jeni! 🇽🇰
17/02/2026
Shpresa Programme ju fton te na bashkoheni te festojme se bashku🇽🇰🇦🇱
Barking Town Hall
Gezuar Pavaresine e Kosoves 🇽🇰
17/02/2026
Getting ready
Join us to celebrate
Kosovo Independence Day 🇽🇰
At Barking Town Hall 🇽🇰🇦🇱
Gezuar Pavaresine Kosove🇽🇰
16/02/2026
Come and join us tomorrow! Celebrating The Independence Day of Kosovo! 🇽🇰🇦🇱
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Shpresa Programme is a registered charity number 1110688 and a company limited by guarantee number 4692860. Shpresa works with over 2,000 Albanian speaking refugees and migrants each year to foster integration and to support men, women and children, enabling them to contribute to the communities in which they now live and work.
Shpresa received the Queen’s Award for Volunteering in 2004. We hold the London Youth Quality Mark, Gold Award for excellence in our Youth Work provision. We also hold the Special Distinction Award from the National Resource Centre for Supplementary Education for exceptional all round high quality supplementary school provision. We were awarded the Forum for Health and Well Being’s Communities of Health Award for the third year running in 2016. In October 2016, we were delighted to receive the Marsh Award for our contribution to the fight against modern slavery for our work with trafficked women and children. In July 2018 we fully achieved the PQASSO level 2 ( 4th addition) and we are proud to have achieved the Trustees Charity .
At Shpresa we have come into contact and supported many hundreds of Albanian speaking people , children who learn Albanian language dancing, perform get involve in sports, parents who learn English and parenting skills, volunteers who get training and support and later on jobs, women that suffer domestic violence and get protected, people who need information and guidance , food or clothes , Shpresa has become the family for the young people who are here without their parents and has become the organisation where we all can knock for help and they will try their best to help.
Our CEO received an Honorary Award as Migrant and Refugee Woman of the year in 2012, the David Crystal Award from the Chartered Institute of Linguists in 2014 in recognition of her work with Shpresa Programme fostering the study of community languages, the Ambassador For Peace from Universal Peace federation December 2016 and recently May 2017 the UK Foreign Social Entrepreneur Award from Money Gram Currently Shpresa is running several projects
Empower Women - Women’s Project, Make it happen - Albanian school, Working together to develop resilience – Youth Project ,Still changing our futures - volunteering,Resources - offer resources and support
Currently we are operating in these boroughs: Newham – 4 venue Including main office,Barking and Dagenham – 1 venue,Redbridge – 1 venue,Enfield – 1 venue, Haringey – 1 venue, Croydon – 3 venues,
Shpresa runs many projects to support the Albanian community in London
*Children and Young People project - aims to improve the life , the education and the wellbeing of the Albanian speaking children from refugee, asylum and migrant backgrounds as well as enabling their voices to get heard.
*Women's Heath and Wellbeing project - aims to improve the chances of the Albanian speaking women to break the isolation, loneliness and other barriers so they could improve their health, integrate within the society and play a full part in the family, community and society
*Volunteering project - aims to promote volunteering amongst Albanian speaking community as way forward in improving their chances of employment as well as their Education and health. In the same time as an organization we offer work placement and internship and team challenges for business teams
*Advice and Advocacy project - aims to provide in partnership with other providers such as RAMP, Praxis, RAMFEL and Community links advice and advocacy on behalf of the Albanian speaking clients in different fields such as benefits, immigration etc
*Campaigning aims to engage, up skill and build power of the Albanian speaking people leaving in UK and other communities to work together to solve the problems that matter to them and for the Common Good
* Resources aims to share our learning, model of working and resources with other user led groups to maximise our impact in the society and play our active role in the Big society
