A UK based charity, Beani Bazar Cancer and General Hospital – BBCGH, with hospital services and facilities in Bangladesh is playing a lead role in providing medical care at grassroots level. BBCGH provides access to primary medical care to the ...
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Inner London Football League Awards highlights community engagement
Emdad Rahman The best of grassroots was on the agenda as the great and the good came together for the Inner London Football League Awards night. The prestigious annual event was held at Impressions in Newham and celebrated another phenomenal ...
Read More »Muslim footballers to discuss the role of faith!
Emdad Rahman ER Consultancy is pleased to announce the first ever Muslim Premiership footballers forum. This is an event which promises to be a deeply thoughtful, uplifting, inspirational and empowering get together where the issue of what it means to ...
Read More »Poplar & Limehouse selection: why the outcry?
LABOUR PARTY members in Poplar & Limehouse constituency have chosen the candidate they want to stand for them at the next General Election: Apsana Begum. A new candidate had to be found as sitting MP “Dim Jim” Fitzpatrick is retiring. ...
Read More »New Trustees for Hedgecock Centre
Emdad Rahman The Hedgecock Community Centre (HCC) held its second AGM and four new Trustees have been appointed to the executive board. The AGM was attended by 20 HCC members and local ward Councillors. The HCC Chair, Secretary and Treasurer ...
Read More »Biggs declines to endorse members’ choice
JOHN BIGGS, veteran politician and Executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets, has stopped short of endorsing Apsana Begum – chosen by Tower Hamlets Labour Party members to be Labour’s candidate at the next General Election. Members had been patient with some ...
Read More »Poplar & Limehouse Labour selects new candidate
THE LABOUR PARTY members of Poplar & Limehouse Constituency Labour Party (CLP) have spoken. They came, they queued, they listened, they queued some more – and then they voted. There were over 500 of them, and they chose Apsana Begum ...
Read More »Shadwell FC and deaf charity address deafness through football
Emdad Rahman Shadwell Youth Organisation and deaf charity Al-Isharah Football organised an inclusive football show pitting players from the deaf and non deaf community to raise awareness and break down barriers. An extraordinary football tournament at Mile End Leisure Centre ...
Read More »Will Bangladeshis unite behind one candidate?
IT IS almost a “tale of two Johns” as Labour Party members in Poplar & Limehouse constituency head for their hustings meeting this afternoon. The members will be choosing who will be the Labour Party candidate at the next General ...
Read More »When sport is fun, not competition
A CITY-WIDE initiative in Birmingham is helping to revive the notion that sport, even competitive sport, can be about co-operation, not confrontation. It is linking together young people in 20 of the city’s schools. Birmingham Connect is run by the ...
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