Editing Bethnal Green (section)

==Public services==
===Health===
The Bethnal Green and Globe Town Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) is a community-based multidisciplinary team; they provide a health and social care for service users with severe and enduring mental health problems, run by [[East London NHS Foundation Trust]] (ELFT).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ideastoreonlinedirectory.org/kb5/towerhamlets/cdmobile/service.page?id=U2gnPNkppJU|title=Idea Store Directory|website=www.ideastoreonlinedirectory.org}}{{Dead link|date=October 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

===Education===
{{Main|List of schools in Tower Hamlets}}
[[File:Bethnal Green Montessori School - geograph.org.uk - 1716721.jpg|thumb|right|Bethnal Green Montessori School]]
Bethnal Green has numerous [[primary schools]], educating children aged four to 11. St. Matthias School, on Bacon Street off Brick Lane, is over a century old and uses the Seal of the old Metropolitan Borough as its badge and emblem. The school was opened with funds from 18th-century St. Matthew's Church on St. Matthew's Row.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/oxedu_reports/display/(id)/87896 |title=Ofsted inspection report for Saint Matthias School |access-date=5 February 2009 |publisher=[[Ofsted]] }}{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The [[Bangabandhu]] Primary School, named after [[Sheikh Mujib]] (who had declared the independence of [[Bangladesh]]), a non-selective state [[Community school (England and Wales)|community school]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/templates/services/services-detail.cfm?sid=1867|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060926112838/http://www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/templates/services/services-detail.cfm?sid=1867|url-status=dead|title=A-Z Services – Tower Hamlets|archivedate=26 September 2006}}</ref> was opened in January 1989; it moved to a new building in November 1991 and has over 450 pupils. In the first decade, around 70% of pupils' parents spoke [[Sylheti language|Sylheti]], a dialect of Bengali, at home, and [[English as a second language]]; [[Bengali language|Standard Bengali]] was a subject choice in the school.

[[Bethnal Green Academy]] is one of the top schools and sixth form colleges in London. Other schools in the area include Oaklands School.

The oldest secondary school was [[Raine's Foundation School]] on Old Bethnal Green, a [[voluntary aided]], [[Anglican]]-tradition, state school founded in 1719.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HyqgAAAAMAAJ|last=Bell |first=Walter George |title=Unknown London |year=1966 |publisher=Spring Books |location=London |page=326|isbn=9787250010263 }}</ref> The school relocated, amalgamating with St. Jude's School<ref>{{Cite book|title=Bustling Intermeddler? The Life and Works of Charles James Blomfield |last=Johnson |first=Malcolm |year=2001 |publisher=Gracewing |isbn=0-85244-546-6 |page=109 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xLAX1Pb1bhwC}}</ref> to become [[coeducational]] in 1977. The school closed in 2020.

Bethnal Green Gardens and Bethnal Green Library provide leisure facilities and information.

===Voluntary and community services===
The [[Oxford House (settlement)|Oxford House]] is a proactive community centre that has its roots in helping the local community. Founded in 1884, as one of the first "[[Settlement movement|settlements]]" by [[Oxford University]],<ref>{{cite book|last=Koven |first=Seth |page=229 |title=Slumming: sexual & social politics in Victorian London |year=2004 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=0-691-11592-3}}</ref> it has helped alleviate or remove the impact of poverty and today provides a programme of community classes, events and weekly activities.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.oxfordhouse.org.uk/about/introduction|last=The Oxford House in Bethnal Green|title=About Oxford House|access-date=31 May 2019|archive-date=31 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190531195257/https://www.oxfordhouse.org.uk/about/introduction/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The Approach Gardens, once an unused space, has been developed into a community food garden, a shared fruit orchard and a wildlife area.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.opensquares.org/2019/gardens/Approach.php|last=London Parks and Gardens Trust|title=Approach Gardens|date=1 June 2019|access-date=1 June 2019|archive-date=1 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190601163913/http://www.opensquares.org/2019/gardens/Approach.php|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The Nomadic Community Gardens, once an area fenced off and overgrown, was occupied between 2015 and 2019<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=Sims|first=Alexandra|title=You've only got 8 days to visit Nomadic Community Gardens before it closes for good|url=https://www.timeout.com/london/news/youve-only-got-8-days-to-visit-nomadic-community-gardens-before-it-closes-for-good-092019|access-date=2021-01-21|website=Time Out London|date=20 September 2019 |language=en-GB}}</ref> by a temporary project or "meanwhile use" run by a private limited company<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/09761239|title=NOMADIC COMMUNITY GARDENS LTD - Overview (free company information from Companies House)|website=beta.companieshouse.gov.uk|language=en|access-date=2019-06-27}}</ref> on behalf of the property developer Londonewcastle, which leases the site to the garden operator for a [[peppercorn rent]] and provided start-up funding.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.homesandproperty.co.uk/property-news/buying/new-homes/meet-the-londoners-who-are-setting-up-new-popup-villages-in-londons-empty-building-sites-50016.html|title=Meet the Londoners who are setting up new pop-up villages in London's empty building sites|date=2015-10-20|website=Homes and Property|access-date=2019-06-27}}</ref> Londonewcastle gained planning consent for a development of "affordable housing, townhouses and apartments"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://londonewcastle.com/developments/fleet-street-hill|title=Fleet Street Hill {{!}} Londonewcastle|website=londonewcastle.com|access-date=2019-06-27}}</ref> on the site in November 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/appeal-victory-for-partington-and-barber-in-shoreditch/8692631.article|title=Appeal victory for Partington and Barber in Shoreditch|last=Waite|first=Richard|website=Architects Journal|date=25 November 2015|language=en|access-date=2019-06-27}}</ref> Construction on the Fleet Street Hill Project was intended to commence in 2016.<ref name=":0" /> In 2019 ownership of the lease was sold<ref name=":1" /> and the site remained empty.

The Gallery Cafe, in [[St. Margaret's House]], reopened as a vegetarian not-for-profit, community café in 2006; it became a fully vegan café in December 2017.<ref>Fat Gay Vegan, [http://fatgayvegan.com/2018/01/08/london-cafe-turns-totally-vegan/ "London Cafe Turns Totally Vegan"], 8 January 2018. Accessed 31 August 2018.</ref> It won ''Best Café in Bethnal Green'' at the [[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]] ''Love London Awards'' in 2014, 2015 <ref>Clack, David: "[https://www.timeout.com/london/things-to-do/the-time-out-love-london-awards-3 Love London Awards 2015 And The Winners Are]", Time Out, 17 November 2015. Accessed 31 August 2018.</ref> and 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.timeout.com/london/things-to-do/the-time-out-love-london-awards-3|last=Clack|first=David|title=The Time Out Love London Awards 2016|website=Time Out|date=15 November 2016|access-date=21 June 2019}}</ref>