Author: Miranda

After a particularly challenging and draining day on Tuesday, my mood and spirit soon went back to normal when I arrived at the William Morris Community Centre in Walthamstow, to take part in the Waltham Forest African Caribbean Elders Group’s beautiful International Women’s Month celebration.

I joined Waltham Forest’s Greater London Assembly Member Jennette Arnold (pictured seated, front row left), Councillors Milton Martin (pictured above, back row, centre), Elizabeth Davies (pictured above, back row, second from right, in blue) and Afzal Akram (standing back row, far left), for an uplifting evening of food, song, poetry and raw positivity Continue reading “Celebrating International Women’s Month”

Local people interested in keeping up to speed with the multitude of fantastic educational and community projects happening at George Mitchell school (where I am a governor), should visit the school’s superb website.

In recent weeks, the school’s Challenge 2012 project has been going from strength to strength (the school is just about to hand over money it’s raised for a school in El Salvador) and pupils running George Mitchell’s School Bank have also received a visit from Nick Ross, the presenter of BBC One’s ‘Crime Watch’ programme. Continue reading “George Mitchell school goes Online”