Community

Time is nearly up for organisations thinking of bidding to develop a Corporate Strategic Plan and a Media Strategy for the East London Mosque Trust (ELMT). The two strategies were put out to tender by ELMT last month – and ...

Taj Accountants recently opened a new office in Valence Road, in the East London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Paul Scully MP, the Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Curry Industry, came to inaugurate the office. After the ribbon ...

Emdad Rahman Beanibazar Sporting Club UK (BSCUK) and Beanibazar Cancer Hospital (BBCH) have teamed up to work on a whole host of ideas and expertise to complement the fantastic current team and enable the hospital to move forward with its ...

Emdad Rahman Bangladesh fast bowler and cricket sensation Mustafizur Rahman was the guest of honour during the celebration of a successful summer youth cricket programme in Whitechapel. The 20 year old first came to the fore as a teenager during ...

There are few women cycling in Tower Hamlets – but a new project is set to change all that in the coming months. The Royal Foundation of St. Katharine has been awarded a TfL Cycling Grant, which will fund a ...

The Alzheimer’s Society is planning to reach out to black and minority ethnic schoolchildren in Tower Hamlets to raise awareness of dementia and help pupils learn more about the condition. The charity has won funding from Tower Hamlets Clinical Commissioning ...

Emdad Rahman The British charity Human Relief Foundation (HRF) has a group of volunteers currently assisting needy Syrian refugees in the Zaatari camp in Jordan. During the course of their relief work the team met Ahmad Mansour, a five month old ...

For once, Bangladeshi Labour councillors were rising from the benches, one after another, to speak in a Council debate. As they did so, they may have wondered why their non-Bangladeshi colleagues were sitting on their hands. This happened at the ...

Stepney City Farm is hosting a day of creative, informative, practical and exploratory workshops about community food and food politics on 31st July which features talks on two key eco issues of the day. The day is a collaboration between ...

Experts working on a cure for dementia have made a scientific breakthrough which they hope will lead to new possibilities for treatment and even a vaccine within five to ten years. Nothing can be guaranteed – there have been “breakthroughs” ...