Who We Are?
Derman, a registered charity and company limited by guarantee, was set up in Hackney in 1991 by members of the Turkish, Turkish Cypriot and Kurdish communities in partnership with local GPs and the health authority.
Derman’s staff members are committed and highly educated people who come from the communities it seeks to serve.
Derman is accepted as a professional, effective, efficient and caring organisation that is here for all people from our communities. It has developed a solid reputation as the only health and social care-related service provider to Kurdish and Turkish people in the UK. It is also seen as a robust organisation that is here to stay through the next decade and beyond.
What We Do?
Derman provides a range of health-related services to Kurdish, Turkish, Turkish Cypriot and Eastern European Turkish people mainly refugees and asylum seekers mainly in Hackney.
The services include Counselling, Mental Health Recovery Support, Advice, Health Advocacy and Activity Groups for individuals and families.
Derman offers its services freely, at no cost, to all Kurdish, Turkish, Turkish Cypriot and Eastern European Turkish people mainly Hackney irrespective of their political, ethnic and religious backgrounds. Derman’s services are all completely non-denominational and politically unaligned.
Derman is one of the very first to be firmly based within its client community.
- Derman is a good example of a self-help organisation springing out of its constituent community. London is a truly multi-lingual, multi-cultural city – a vital resource for this country and its people. The Kurdish, Turkish, Turkish Cypriot and EU Turkish people make a key contribution to the economy, gastronomy and culture of London.
- Derman is also an excellent example of holistic care, the importance of which is increasingly recognized today. An individual needs to be treated as a whole person not just as having an illness or a problem. Otherwise that individual is confronted by a separate collection of services often unrelated to each other and they fall between the gaps.
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Visit us
The Basement, 66 New North Road, London N1 6TG
Call us
020 7613 5944
Mail Us
services@derman.org.uk