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The Alcohol Service (TAS) is a free and confidential alcohol service for adults, families, carers and affected others.

We support those in the bi-borough of Westminster and Kensington & Chelsea.

28/10/2026

Have you ever noticed the roundel at Westminster Underground station that celebrates African culture?

Created by artist Larry Achiampong, it draws on African symbols and design traditions, including Adinkra symbols associated with Ghana. Its 54 stars represent the 54 countries of Africa.

It’s an interesting piece of public art to come across in a station used every day by people travelling through Westminster. It gives a familiar London landmark a different story to tell, one that connects the city to African histories and cultures.

If you pass through Westminster station, take a moment to look for it.

More about the artwork and its background: https://www.qmsu.org/news/article/29421/Mapping-Black-History-in-London/

27/10/2026

Ottobah Cugoano - There’s a blue plaque at 80–82 Pall Mall, on a building many people pass without knowing the story attached to it.

Ottobah Cugoano lived and worked there in the 1780s. Born in what is now Ghana, he was kidnapped as a child and sold into slavery. He was brought to England, where he eventually gained his freedom and learned to read and write.

In 1787, he published a book arguing for the immediate abolition of slavery. It was a radical position. Cugoano was not simply asking for the slave trade to end; he was demanding freedom for people who were already enslaved.

He also helped campaign to save a man, Harry Demane, from being forcibly sent back to slavery in the Caribbean.

Cugoano’s later life is poorly documented. What we do know is that he used his writing and public campaigning to challenge a system from which Britain had profited.

His plaque is on Pall Mall, and there’s another memorial to him at St James’s Church, Piccadilly, where he was baptised in 1773.

Read more: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/ottobah-cugoano/

26/10/2026

Dame Oneta Malorie Blackman DBE FRSL

If you read Noughts & Crosses when you were younger, you might remember how unsettling its central idea was.

Malorie Blackman’s series imagines a society in which Black people hold power and white people experience the discrimination and exclusion that Black people have faced in the real world. The reversal forces readers to look at familiar assumptions from a different angle.

Blackman has written more than 70 books for children and young adults. Her work includes Pig Heart Boy, Boys Don't Cry and the Noughts & Crosses series. She also co-wrote the Doctor Who episode “Rosa”, about Rosa Parks.

From 2013 to 2015, Blackman served as the UK Children’s Laureate, using the role to promote reading and the importance of books for young people.

Her books are often shelved as fiction for children or teenagers, but the questions they raise about power, belonging and fairness are not limited to one age group.

More about her work: https://www.malorieblackman.co.uk/about/

25/10/2026

Stoptober

It can be hard to notice how much smoking costs when you're buying ci******es a pack at a time. It's often only when you stop for a period of time that you notice you have more money

It can be quite motivating if you have a goal for what you will use that money for instead.

25/10/2026

Mary Seacole - If you’re near Westminster Bridge, there’s a statue in the grounds of St Thomas’ Hospital that’s worth stopping to look at.

It’s Mary Seacole, the Jamaican-born nurse who travelled to the Crimea during the war in the 1850s. When she couldn’t secure a place with the official nursing teams, she made her own way there and established the British Hotel, where she provided food and care to sick and wounded soldiers.

She had spent years learning about traditional medicine and caring for people, including during cholera outbreaks in the Caribbean and Central America. After the war, she returned to Britain in poor financial circumstances and began writing her autobiography at an address in Soho Square.

That address has a blue plaque too. It’s a reminder that London was part of her story, including the difficult years after the fame she gained in the Crimea.

The statue is beside Westminster Bridge, in the grounds of St Thomas’ Hospital. The plaque is at 14 Soho Square.

More about Mary Seacole: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/mary-seacole/

19/10/2026

Black History Month Celebration!

All are welcome to attend at Edward Woods Community Centre.
This will take place on 22nd October 1-5pm.

12/10/2026

It's Stoptober

If you've been thinking about stopping smoking, this could be a good time.

You might have tried before. You might have stopped for a few weeks and then started again. A lot of people we speak to think that this means they tried and they can't. But if you've managed to stop for just a short time it means you can - so you can do it again.
Most people who successfully quit have tried before. Every attempt can teach you something about what makes it difficult and what helps.

If you've tried before, think about what happened last time. That might be the most useful place to start this time.

26/09/2026

Often, people can remember the date they stopped drinking or using drugs, but it can be hard to recall other big changes that happened, for example:

• When they started waking up and feeling okay
• When their family stopped worrying when they called
• When they started to make plans in advance.

You don't always notice these changes as they're happening. Recovery Month is a good excuse to look back and see how far you've come.

Turning Point Central London

20/09/2026

London Recovery Network 2026 will take place on 29th September 9am - 6pm at The Troxy. This is open to everyone in recovery and recovery professionals.

To attend, go to the website https://londonrecoverynetwork.org.uk/ and click to register.

19/09/2026

One of the challenges when you make a big change is suddenly having time on your hands.

An evening that used to be spent in the pub is now several hours long, and a Saturday can feel really different if the people you usually spent it with are still drinking.

Sometimes people don’t know what else they'd enjoy doing. I’ve found that when people think about what they enjoyed when they were younger, that’s a good start. If you enjoyed drawing, for example, you could start that. It can also feel uncomfortable to start with but going back to something you once liked and sticking with it can re-ignite an interest, or you can move on to something else.

Finding out what you actually enjoy can take a while.

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