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Emdad Rahman Haverhill Electrical Suppliers are celebrating almost four decades of top class service after winning the best business category at the inaugural Suffolk BME Business Awards 2016. Haverhill Electrical Suppliers has been established for over 35 years, supplying national retailers ...

Emdad Rahman The UK-based humanitarian charity Ummah Welfare Trust (UWT) organised an assembly at Madina Masjid, Barking & Dagenham, as part of a Syria children’s appeal. Earlier this year staff and volunteers at Ummah Welfare Trust had launched an Eid ...

Emdad Rahman It was a case of Chelsea and Scintilla Cricket club providing a sporting theme as our One Soup Kitchen hit the streets to enjoy our weekly catch up with London’s homeless citizens. The heavens had opened. It was ...

Muhammad Ismael As part of a character building initiative, Year 8 students at the London Enterprise Academy in London E1 have been learning about dementia and the effect the brain disease has on the lives of people. Dementia Friends Champion Emdad ...

Emdad Rahman Members of Neighbours in Poplar had a productive weekend as youngsters planned, ran and sold goods at a community event to raise money for a girls school in Bangladesh. The young people came up with the idea after hearing ...

On the night of 16th September 1940, near the beginning of the London Blitz, Nazi forces began to drop naval mines for the first time over London. Many failed to explode and created an imminent threat to the safety of ...

Emdad Rahman The Save Rukon fundraising dinner was hailed a tremendous success after a full house attended a blockbusting evening of networking, food and fun. Rukon Khan is a final year Honours student at Sylhet MC College and is suffering ...

Emdad Rahman The Speaker of Tower Hamlets Councillor Khales Ahmed Ahmed recognised the outstanding commitment and services of a community activist who has been at the forefront of community engagement for the last twenty years. Musleh Ahmed’s community activism was ...

Emdad Rahman Barking & Dagenham Muslims celebrated their Eid day with communal morning prayers at Barking  Park. The prayer was conducted by Imam Imran, who told the congregation, “Although this is a day of great happiness and enjoyment let us not ...

Emdad Rahman “Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how expensive it is to be poor.” James Baldwin. It was rainy, dark and bleak. The town centre was bustling though. My team Scintilla Cricket Club had taken on the soup ...