During this holy month of Ramadan, The Baraka Khan Foundation and The London Muslim Centre (LMC) have announced that they will be working in partnership to plan the establishment of The Baraka Khan Visitor Gallery (the BKVG). The BKVG will ...
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Janomongal Shomithy Bohor Gram hold Ramadan Iftar event
Emdad Rahman Janomongal Shomithy Bohor Gram have held their annual Ramadan Iftar 2016 at Care House in London’s East End. The collective is the oldest of its kind in the Bangladeshi region of Sylhet and serves the people through charitable activities ...
Read More »Sangeeta’s Ramadan poster is a winner!
Seven year old Sangeeta Digpal has won Tesco’s Ramadan poster competition. Along with hundreds of other entrants from across the country Sangeeta designed a poster showing what Ramadan means to her – and she emerged as the national winner. Sangeeta’s ...
Read More »Homeless blog: One Third Soup Kitchen bring in the kids
Emdad Rahman “A third of homeless people have been refused work because of their living condition” – Shelter Tonight at Booth House I was joined by youth from the Splash Life Skills Project – better known as Amzy’s Angels. They ...
Read More »It’s an honour – or three!
Three honours winged their way to Tower Hamlets as the Queen issued her Birthday Honours List. The first two awards recognise work in the local public sector – by two women who work with the borough’s young people. Deborah Weston, Director ...
Read More »Sheffield leads the way on air pollution monitoring
Air pollution is once more becoming a very serious issue in the UK. We expect to see some action about air quality in London, after new London Mayor Sadiq Khan made election campaign promises to improve matters as soon as ...
Read More »Human Relief launches “What Dad used to do” campaign
After the holy month of Ramadan, the joy and celebrations of Eid bring the family together. But orphan children have no parents to spend Eid with. They miss out on the full enjoyment of the day – and, as well ...
Read More »Ramadan 2016 with One Third soup kitchen
Emdad Rahman It takes merely minutes to make a positive change I told wide-eyed Inaya. It’s Ramadan 2016, and Kam and I had a new team with us today. We really enjoyed serving and mixing with our visiting guests. It ...
Read More »Emdad receives Volunteers’ Week Award
Muhammad Ismael London Bangla writer Emdad Rahman has been rewarded for his voluntary work with recognition from the Barking & Dagenham Volunteer Bureau as part of The Big Celebration – Volunteers’ Week 2016. Volunteers’ Week is an annual celebration of the fantastic ...
Read More »Deputy Mayor backs Brick Lane restaurant prosecution
Shampan Restaurant Limited, the company which runs the Shampan restaurant on Brick Lane, has been fined £3,757.50 – and one of its directors, Rukeya Haque, has been fined £1,220. The penalties arise out of a charge of “exposing and selling ...
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