A home for Filipino language and culture in Britain.
Filipino classes for kids and adults, live online and in person in London, and a Baybayin course. Built by a community, recognised by the Philippine Presidential Banaag Award.
September & October
2026
Kids’ online Filipino classes start on 13 September. Adult Conversational Filipino, online and in person at Notting Hill Gate, and the five-week Baybayin Culture & Design course start in October.
No Filipino child growing up in Britain should ever feel a stranger to their own heritage.
The London Filipino Centre began as a whisper: one father's quiet worry that his son understood Filipino but could not speak it. A community survey in 2014 confirmed the worry was shared. On 12 July 2016, twenty children arrived at a taster class built for ten. Ten years on, LFC is a community where the language, Baybayin and the culture of the Philippines live, breathe and grow, far from home.
Read the LFC storyFilipino, taught with heart.
Baybayin, taught as design.
The pre-colonial script of the Philippines, written large on the LFC seal and taught since 2019 as a writing system, an art form and a cultural statement.
Every letter above is a living character, not decoration. In an LFC workshop you learn to read and write them within the hour, then make them your own. Workshops have travelled to Greenwich, UCL, Imperial College, Sheffield, Manchester and CelebrAsia at Battersea. Bring one to your school, university or community group.
National recognition for a decade of quiet Saturdays.
Conferred by the Commission on Filipinos Overseas and received in Pasay City on 29 June 2022, the Banaag Award recognised London Filipino Centre CIC's outstanding contribution to preserving and showcasing Filipino language and Philippine culture among overseas Filipino communities in the United Kingdom.
The honour belongs to every learner, family, teacher, volunteer and partner who helped carry the work forward.
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Enquire about a class, bring a Baybayin workshop to your community, volunteer, or partner with LFC. One email reaches the whole team.