Alpha Kappa Alpha Just Chartered a New Chapter in London, Extending Global Presence to the UK

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LONDON — Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® has expanded its global footprint with the chartering of a new chapter in London, United Kingdom. On Friday, May 30, 2025, the sorority officially established Alpha Delta Alpha Omega Chapter.

The new chapter includes 25 professional women with backgrounds in real estate, finance, medicine, business, and other fields. Grounded in a commitment to community service, the group has spent the past year working alongside more than a dozen local organizations. Their initiatives have included distributing over 350 Childhood Hunger Power Packs (AKA CHIPP™ weekend meals), assembling more than 200 Blessing Bags, facilitating an eight-week entrepreneurship training program for women, logging over 200 volunteer hours, and investing more than £3,000 in Black-owned businesses.

The chapter’s first official service projects will continue this focus, with members—joined by volunteers and visiting sorority members—organizing activities such as collecting and distributing children’s books by Black authors and gathering professional attire for women re-entering the workforce.

“These women are already making an enormous difference in and around London,” said Carrie J. Clark, International Regional Director for Alpha Kappa Alpha. “They are an amazing group of servant leaders who I am confident will expand Alpha Kappa Alpha’s legacy of service in the Greater London area for years to come.”

Founded in 1908 on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C., Alpha Kappa Alpha is the oldest Greek-letter sorority established by Black college women. It currently has over 365,000 members across more than 13 countries and territories, now including the United Kingdom.

The sorority has led several global initiatives, including poverty-reduction efforts in sub-Saharan Africa, school construction in post-apartheid South Africa, and a recent service mission to Liberia supporting women and children. The sorority also launched the For Members Only™ Federal Credit Union—the first Black-owned, women-led, sorority-based digital financial institution in the United States.

With the addition of its London chapter, Alpha Kappa Alpha continues to build on its history of service and civic engagement on an international scale.