Community

Tower Hamlets parents and carers can get to grips with real nappies at a special “Nappuccino” event from 10am to 12 noon on Tuesday, 17th March at at Whitechapel Idea Store, 321 Whitechapel Road, E1 1BU. The council will be working with ...

Tower Hamlets Council is appealing for people to come forward and find out about becoming a foster parent. The council currently has 115 fostering households on its books, but it is always looking for more recruits. In particular it needs ...

Tower Hamlets residents have just one more week to give the council and its partners their views on the borough’s priorities for the next five years. The Tower Hamlets Community Plan sets out the way in which the borough’s public, ...

Emdad Rahman Hope & knowledge, in association with the Ummah Welfare Trust, are taking part in a night ride to raise money and awareness for the Rohingya people of Burma. The team hopes to complete the moon ride from Cambridge ...

The Barts NHS Trust has revealed that it has amassed a stonking deficit – and local pro-NHS campaigners are blaming the costly PFI deal which financed the new Royal London Hospital. The Trust seems to be resorting to desperate measures ...

Friends of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park and volunteers are ready to bring to life an inspirational greening project on a wall in the Leopold Estate! Building work begins on Thursday, 26th March – and the Friends are appealing for helpers to ...

Ahead of National Apprenticeship Week (9-13th March), Keepmoat, one of four contractors working with Tower Hamlets Homes on their Decent Homes programme, is pledging to support over 400 apprentices across the UK over the next 12 months.  A firm supporter ...

Hundreds of residents took advantage of free activities and events hosted by Tower Hamlets Council during the February half term. •More than 1,500 people turned up to the council’s flagship event, Get Your Skates On, organised by the council’s sports ...

Young women and girls in Tower Hamlets who have experienced sexual violence can now seek support from a new advocate based in the borough. The Nia Project has received funding from the Home Office as part of the Government’s Ending ...

The March issue of The Voice, newsletter of the East London Garden Society (ELGS), is out now. It covers the usual range of fascinating articles about gardening for food and fun – with recipes, horticultural tips and bits of general ...