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Emdad Rahman Military sieges in Madaya, Ghouda and Moadamiyah have left a million Syrians facing starvation. Accordingly, the Ummah Welfare Trust (UWT) organised a weekend of fundraising activities to support affected people in these areas – where food is so ...

Emdad Rahman The Lighted Path, a new Tower Hamlets-based mental health project, is launching on Sunday, 5th June 2016 at Sir John Macdougal Gardens, 121 Westferry Road, London E14. The project aims to raise awareness of mental health, and volunteers ...

The latest edition of The Voice – newsletter of the East London Garden Society – has announced the launch of a crowdfunding campaign to create a London Community Flower Show. The news comes out as the slightly snooty Chelsea Flower ...

Emdad Rahman A community group of friends have got together and agreed to spend a significant amount of time doing something charitable and positive. The peer group came up with the idea of holding a weekend charity car wash with 100% ...

It was 25-4-25 on 26th May, as 25 parliamentarians turned out to celebrate 25 years of Human Appeal and launch the charity’s 2016 Ramadan campaign, which is being run in conjunction with the Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding. ...

The East London Mosque has published its Ramadan calendar.  The month will begin on 5th June and it is anticipated that Eid will be on 6th July. Printed copies of the timetable can be collected from the Mosque. The timetable ...

Tower Hamlets Council has always taken its responsibilities to looked after children in its care very seriously. It runs a Virtual School, which it explains as a system “responsible for working with social workers, carers and professionals to promote educational ...

Emdad Rahman A group of friends has got together to deliver a worthwhile project in aid of the Human Relief Foundation. Nura Said from Tower Hamlets and her friends have organised a family fun day in Whitechapel at the Brady ...

Emdad Rahman The Iftar 1000 team is planning a family fun day on Saturday, 28th May – and it’s extending invitations to the community to come along and support their charitable initiatives. The fun day will take place at St ...

Emdad Rahman Community activist Fokrul Islam has been recognised by the London Federation of Sports and Recreation with a Voluntary Award 2016. The Federation is the voice of voluntary sport in Greater London and through its wide representation on sports ...