Deaf- and Disabled-led · Brixton and Camberwell

A place to belong. A place to grow.

Welcome to Katakata. Come in for good food, meet your community, learn new skills or get support. However you communicate, there’s a place for you here.

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The front of Katakata Brixton: a blue sign with KATAKATA in turquoise letters, a wide window showing colourful murals, armchairs and plants, and orange chairs outside under a willow tree.

Today's usual hours Katakata Brixton: 11am to 5pm Neurodiverse by Katakata, Camberwell: 10am to 5pm

Start here

What brings you here today?

However you communicate and whatever you need, there's a way in. Pick the one closest to you.

01
Come in for food
Galettes, crêpes and fresh juices at our two cafés.
02
Learn sign language
Free BSL courses, free practice drop-ins and one-to-one lessons.
03
Get advice or support
Free advice, including in BSL, and a weekly food bank.
04
Join something
The garden, open mic night, our annual festival and more.
05
Partner or commission
Catering, BSL training, Deaf-led video, employment and research partnerships.
06
Research and learning
Help us learn what makes a space like this work.

Our approach

It all starts with a welcome

From a welcome, five things can grow.

The welcoming space
Our greatest asset is our welcoming space and the relationships built in it. The café, food, garden, advice, training and activities are the ways people come in and become part of the community.
Belonging
Belonging and confidence
People come back because they're known here. Friendships and confidence grow at the table.
Our approach
Support
Practical help and accessible advice
Free advice, including in BSL, and a weekly food bank, in a place that already feels safe.
Advice and support
Work
Skills, training and employment
A small-group employability programme in our cafés, and a weekly Job Club with the Jobcentre.
Work and training
Leadership
Deaf and disabled leadership
Lived experience runs Katakata. It shapes how we welcome people and what we work for.
Who leads us
Change
Learning, partnerships and wider change
We learn from the people in the room, and we're exploring partnerships that take what works here further.
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Our community in numbers

What happens here

Figures from our own records, as at November 2026. Some people come more than once, so weekly figures are not counts of different people. See our impact for details.

about30people a week come to our food bank
about5 to 6people a week get advice and guidance
55meals a week cooked for two Thames Reach homelessness services
around300people at our annual Katakata Festival

Eight members of the Katakata team stand together in the community garden, laughing and holding a rake, spades and a watering can.

Work and opportunity

Real work, in a real workplace

We know the barriers to work because we've met them ourselves. In our cafés, small groups of Deaf and disabled people learn cooking, barista skills and customer service in a real workplace.

Skills, training and work

Being honest