Pepper Pot Centre

The Pepper Pot Centre (PPC), also known as the Pepperpot Club, is a British charity based in Ladbroke Grove, West London, that for four decades has been supporting elderly people from the African, Caribbean and BME communities in the London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, offering a meal service as well as information and advice on social and health issues and benefits. The Pepper Pot was founded in 1981 by Pansy Jeffrey, a community activist from the Windrush generation, with the original aim of providing "a culturally sensitive drop-in centre for recently retired, redundant or disabled members of the elderly African Caribbean community". The Pepper Pot Centre was visited by The Queen on its opening in Ladbroke Grove in 1981. and again on its 25th anniversary, in 2005. In October 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the centre was visited by Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, who witnessed how "this hub for older people has continued to support vulnerable members of the community throughout lockdown".