Community

PRIMARY AND second schools throughout the UK are bracing themselves for a difficult future as details of the Government’s new funding formula become clear. Under the current funding formula, schools with more challenges – such as higher levels of deprivation among ...

EDEN CARE held its first national conference on Thursday, 23rd February at the London Muslim Centre. The theme was “End of Life Support and Burial – An Islamic Perspective”. Aimed at creating greater awareness about best practices related to End ...

Md Talha BARKING & DAGENDHAM Volunteer Centre are hosting and offering a free one hour Dementia Friends information session to help raise awareness. The session will start at 12.15pm on 8th March in the Ripple Centre, 121-125 Ripple Road, Barking IG11 7FN. ...

Emdad Rahman THE LIMEHOUSE Open Day takes place today from 12-4 pm at the newly opened Limehouse Youth Centre, Limehouse Causeway, London E14 8BN. This is a free event and is open to the whole community. There will be refreshments, ...

Emdad Rahman As part of their social responsibility development, young people from the Splash Life Skills Project visited the Sonali Gardens old people’s home to meet the elderly, befriend them and serve delicious home cooked food. The happy residents were ...

Emdad Rahman THE HACKNEY SISTERS, a women’s collective from Clapton, north London, held a fun day and raised £22,766.36 to boost the Ummah Welfare Trust’s Winter Appeal for the suffering people of Syria. The money raised will also be used ...

Emdad Rahman EDEN CARE IS inviting readers to attend the Eden Care End of Life Support & Burial – “an Islamic Perspective” Conference on Thursday, 23rd February 2017 in East London.  This conference will be examining the best practice as well ...

Emdad Rahman I DIDN’T expect to see many regulars today. Winter is different, and our homeless friends need to keep coming just to keep the big freeze at arms length. Stratford isn’t very friendly and we have a definite need ...

Emdad Rahman A GENEROUS businessperson has donated his profits to support the humanitarian work being delivered by the Ummah Welfare Trust in Syria.  Jahirul Islam, the owner of Amma’s Kitchen in Ponders End, north London, responded to the appeal and ...

Emdad Rahman IN SUPPORT OF the long suffering Rohingya people of Burma, the pupils of Jamiatul Ummah in Whitechapel have raised over £1,000. The Rohingya are from the Rakhine State, Myanmar, and are widely considered to be among the most oppressed ...