Community

In a major success for residents, the Newham scrutiny committee have played a crucial role in challenging and ultimately reducing proposed changes to visitor parking permit charges in Newham. Behind the scenes, councillors on the Scrutiny committee worked tirelessly to ...

WHO WANTS to be frozen all year? The Tower Hamlets Be Well centres do! The Council has frozen the fees at all its Be Well Centres for the next financial year (2025-26). Most boroughs have sports and/or leisure centres which ...

IT IS several years since the NHS decided to modernise the Royal London Hospital – triggering a wholesale redevelopment of the surrounding part of Whitechapel. But will the development bring improvements to the area? The opportunity to improve Whitechapel wasn’t ...

THE NUMBER OF people in England who were referred to the NHS wheelchair service in 2024 is roughly the same as the number of people who live in Northampton. What is the NHS wheelchair service? If you need a mobility ...

THE SLAVE TRADE was running across the Atlantic – but in Tower Hamlets, between 1567 and 1802, Black people were finding refuge and telling their stories. Now a new exhibition tells their stories. Six local residents have dug into the ...

THE CHISENHLE Gallery has announced a series of events which will take place over the next three months. Introduction 11am-12 noon, Saturday, 29th March An introduction to Claudia Pages Rabal’s commission Five Defence Towers, by Olivia Aherne, Curator, and Oscar ...

CARDIFF: the capital of Wales; the largest city in Wales and the eleventh largest city in the United Kingdom. Nestled on the south coast of Wales, it was occupied by the Romans and then by the Normans, before being unified ...

Emdad Rahman Da’watul Islam UK & Eire’s Ladies’ English Section hosted a “Meet & Greet” event at the Darul Ummah Care House, bringing together over one hundred women from diverse racial and cultural backgrounds. The event opened with recitation from ...

Muhammad Talha Shoreditch, London – Tower Hamlets Council took a proactive step in enhancing the aesthetic appeal and safety of Braithwaite Street in Brick Lane with a graffiti clean up event on Wednesday, 26th February. The initiative brought together the ...

Emdad Rahman Newham-based charity joins King Charles at special reception for community groups Sisters Forum, a grassroots organisation dedicated to empowering women and supporting families in Newham, was recently invited to Buckingham Palace for a prestigious reception hosted by King ...