Muhammad Talha The volunteers at Ekota Academy play a huge part in the sporting club providing excellent grassroots community programmes. For young people there’s cricket, football and martial arts, and for the elderly there’s Zumba and fitness classes for women, ...
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FA Vase home clash for Sporting Bengal
Emdad Rahman Sporting Bengal United Football Club will host Deal Town FC this Saturday in the Isuzu FA Vase Third Round Proper. Deal Town, 4-2 winners at Phoenix Sports in the Second Round, will be visiting the former Kent League ...
Read More »Headteacher Ashid All honoured by City of London
Muhammad Talha Ashid Ali, Headteacher of the London Enterprise Academy, Tower Hamlets, has been honoured during one of the oldest surviving traditional ceremonies still in existence today, one believed to have been first presented in 1237. Ali has been recognised ...
Read More »THH offers help with jobs
TOWER HAMLETS HOMES (THH) is the Arms Length Management Company which runs the Council’s housing stock on their behalf. Like many local social landlords, it is also offering help with finding a job. Social landlords offering advice on employment is ...
Read More »Cenex appoints Dennis Hayter as new Chair of Board
CENEX IS AN independent, not-for-profit consultancy and research organisation based in Loughborough. It specialises in work to reduce carbon emissions across the UK. It encourages firms in the automotive industry to adopt low emission technology – to attract more investment ...
Read More »Keepmoat supports 20 apprentices in Tower Hamlets
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 ...
Read More »More people in Tower Hamlets are working than ever before
Tower Hamlets’ employment rate is the highest it’s been for the borough since recording began in 2004. The figures, provided quarterly from the Annual Population Survey, show that 68.1% of the borough’s population are currently in employment – a 4.2% ...
Read More »Engineers raise resistance over GCSEs
As thousands of young people received their GCSE results last week, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) warned that the Government might be poised to make a blunder. Their plan is to merge GCSEs in engineering, electronics and manufacturing ...
Read More »Grants to help businesses with internet costs
Small and medium businesses in Tower Hamlets could get up to £3,000 towards installing a high-speed broadband connection, usually of 30Mbit/s or more. The new grant from the Greater London Authority (GLA), worth up to £100 million across the UK, ...
Read More »Head for the hills!
In the 1980s, the then Tory Government set up the London Docklands Development Corporation, which made deals (usually discounts on their taxes) with various companies to move to the Isle of Dogs. They told us that wealth would trickle down ...
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