17TH – 19TH MAY 2019, HACKNEY MARSHES Hackney Festival of Fitness is excited to announce the first names added to its fitness line up for Friday 17th and Saturday 18th of May 2019 at the Fitness Festival Village on Hackney ...
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Football on the menu as Neighbours in Poplar visit Calais Kitchen
Emdad Rahman Neighbours in Poplar have returned from a deployment to Calais, France, where a team of volunteers led by Sister Christine Frost spent a day at the Refugee Community Kitchen which serves hot, nourishing meals to displaced people on ...
Read More »Arriva bus drivers climb Snowdon for Rohingya
Emdad Rahman EAST LONDON BUS DRIVERS have climbed Mount Snowdon in aid of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. The whole group consisted of bus drivers from the Arriva bus garage depot in Ash Grove – and their collective efforts raised £3,000. ...
Read More »Team HRF take aid to Bangladesh
Emdad Rahman A GROUP OF volunteers from the Human Relief Foundation (HRF) travelled to Bangladesh over half-term to deliver aid. Volunteers from the Whitechapel branch visited the Rohingya Camp in Cox Bazar, followed by three days in Sylhet where they ...
Read More »London Enterprise Academy pupils join charity 5k
Maruf Ahmed WHILE MOST SCHOOL CHILDREN were tucking into their well-earned midday lunches, a group of Year 10 pupils from the London Enterprise Academy in Whitechapel joined volunteers from the UK charity Human Relief Foundation to raise awareness of issues ...
Read More »Team Orange get the Ealing Feeling
Emdad Rahman TEAM ORANGE, on behalf of the UK charity Penny Appeal, completed the Ealing Half Marathon for charity. The run at Lammas Park, now recognised as West London’s biggest running event, has three times been voted the UK’s best ...
Read More »Headstart Education Centre to support charity appeal
Emdad Rahman TO CELEBRATE 16 years of excellence, the Headstart Education Centre is holding a charity BBQ fundraiser to support the initiatives of UK charity the Ummah Welfare Trust. Half of the profits will be donated to the charity’s Iraq appeal. ...
Read More »Charity BBQ for Syria
Emdad Rahman THE UMMAH WELFARE TRUST, in partnership with Team Tough Guy, is running a charity fun day for Syria. The family fun day takes place on Saturday, 13th October from 12-7 pm on Romford Street, London E1 1HX. Fun ...
Read More »Did Russian poison suspects stay in Bow?
THE CITY STAY HOTEL in Bow is the focus of attention this morning – as claims surface that Ruslan Boshirov and Alexander Petrov partied the night away in the hotel before making their way to Salisbury. What the pair did ...
Read More »Balinga FC win HRF Rohingya Cup
Muhammad Hamza BALINGA FC have won the Human Relief Foundation Rohingya Cup – after beating Carlton Wanderers 2-0 in the final. The fundraising football festival took place at Carlton Square Gardens, Mile End, and featured an array of local footballers ...
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