ICSS – Inspiring future generations

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Educate

ICSS began as a supplementary school open to children of all backgrounds and faiths and entirely run by unpaid volunteers. The schools were set in up in the London boroughs of Newham in 2004 and in Tower Hamlets in 2009. At ICSS we inspire our students to aim high by achieving their goals and helping others including their younger peers and within the local community.

Inspire

What sets us apart is that we aim to include everyone to be part of the local community and society. In recent years we have evolved to not only provide free education and tutoring, but also mentoring to children of refugees and families of domestic violence.

Excel

We want for these and all children to benefit from the same opportunities as others without feeling ostracised, isolated, different or embarrassed and also to feel included within the community.

Who we are

ICSS is an entirely volunteer run organisation that operates in the London Boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets since 2004. The school is open to children of all backgrounds and faiths and we strongly believe that our students (from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds) need to be encouraged to integrate into British society, and our volunteers play an important part in this as role models.

CWSS (Canary Wharf)

ICSS (Manor Park)

Cakes and pastries contributed by Greggs and Sainsburys

ICSS Barbecue

OUR TEAM

Our volunteers are as diverse as the community around us - doctors, accountants, solicitors, and local businessmen being just some examples of the various backgrounds we hail from.

Muneeb Asif

ICSS Trustee

Muneeb was a former ICSS student at the inception of the charity in 2004 and has now come full circle from student to volunteer to trustee and volunteer. He has seen the organisation evolve to what it is today from the very beginning! See his amazing story in the case study under 'The Schools' menu.

Ciaran Donnelly

Volunteer

Ciaran is a volunteer and teacher in several organisations with experience teaching people of all ages. At ICSS he volunteers teaching maths and physics to older students. Ciaran holds a PGCert in Physics from Queen Mary University of London and is also a Trinity CertTESOL qualified English teacher. He gained experience, as well as understanding of the difficulties faced by asylum seekers and refugees by volunteering to teach English to people in these situations.

Zafar Razaq

ICSS Trustee - CWSS

Zafar has been with ICSS since 2007 and a Trustee since 2008. He has been in charge of running the school in Canary Wharf (Canary Wharf Supplementary School) for the last ten years. He was awarded for his efforts within the nominated category of ‘Improving Life Chances’ at the Mayor of London Awards in October 2019. Apart from his regular job as a Project Manager, he is also a governor of a primary school in Clapham Common.

ICSS: not just a school

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Student with CWSS volunteer

CWSS

ICSS teachers helped me perform better in my exams

Students with ICSS Volunteer (UEL student)

Lower school

Our Latest News: Mayor of London awards

Congratulations to ICSS volunteer and Trustee- Zafar Razaq at CWSS who was nominated and the overall winner of the category Improving Life Chances. Congratulations Zafar!