Bootstrap Charity has been home to social entrepreneurs, small businesses, and charities for nearly 50 years, with a family of 75 tenants in the creative, social, and hospitality industries across 3 buildings. The combination of place and people generates a distinct energy and warmth. Bootstrap believes that good people can make the world a better place, and we reflect this in the way we work together and care for each other. Bootstrap Charity offers its charity tenants cheaper rents and funds its social enterprise tenants to run employment programmes, and draws on its tenants to mentor and offer industry expertise.

The Dalston Curve Garden is the vital green beating heart of Dalston. It is deeply rooted and loved in the community, and provides social, economic, environmental, and health benefits to all the local population. The garden runs an extensive volunteering involvement programme and year round activities to combat social isolation and bring neighbours and generations together.

V22 was established in 2005 in the heart of Dalston’s creative quarter to offer affordable studios for artists and makers. Rooted in cultural, social and spatial sustainability, V22 enables creative work, fosters collaboration, and helps protect artistic spaces in London’s rapidly changing cultural landscape. In June 2025, V22 bought its Ashwin Street home, securing the long-term future for this vital creative hub. Today, V22 operates eight buildings across London, supporting more than 300 studio spaces.

Cafe OTO, founded in 2008 at Bootstrap, is an internationally renowned independent music venue dedicated to creative and experimental music. Conceived as a community-focused space, OTO (Japanese for "sound") serves as a vital clubhouse for artists and enthusiasts of free jazz, avant-garde, noise, and more. The venue has hosted legends like Yoko Ono and Thurston Moore and is celebrated for its programming, multi-night artist residencies, and in-house record labels (OtoRoku and TakuRoku).

The Dusty Knuckle Bakery started life in a single 40Ft container in Bootstrap’s yard 10 years ago, with the intention of helping young people into employment by making the best bread in London. The social enterprise has grown to employ over 100 people across 3 sites, supports over 65 trainees a year, and won Time Out’s award for London’s best neighbourhood bakery, and has been awarded a King's Award for Enterprise for its outstanding work in promoting opportunity and social mobility.