Councillor Afzal Akram, the new Council Cabinet Member for Community Safety (pictured above right), and I attended the launch of Waltham Forest Council’s new Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) staff forum today.
The Event, which took place at Waltham Forest Assembly Hall in Forest Rd, Walthamstow, saw over two hundred staff of BME origin come together for their new staff forum’s inaugural meeting Continue reading “Waltham Forest Council’s Vision for Race Equality”
On Sunday, Forest ward Councillor Faiz Yunis (pictured above first left) and I attended a seminar at our local mosque, the Noor Ul Islam Trust, to discuss health issues affecting our South Asian community.
Coronary Heart Disease is a serious illness affecting thousands of South Asian people around the world. Indeed, many health experts believe the current situation is fast becoming an epidemic Continue reading “Noor Ul Islam Mosque’s Healthy Hearts Campaign”
Today has been a manically busy, but very enjoyable, day. I have attended and held a number of meetings with some of the key organisations providing services in and around the Leyton ward. Below is a brief report of today’s activities Continue reading “A day in the life of Your Leyton Ward Councillor”
On Friday, I was invited to address a group of ‘ESOL’ (English as a Second Language) students at Waltham Forest College, as part of their British ‘citizenship’ course.
The students had been studying the local elections as part of classes they are taking to learn more about British democracy Continue reading “Getting Political with Waltham Forest’s New Citizens”
We’re off!
Waltham Forest Council held its Annual General Meeting on the 25th of May.
The meeting agreed the Council’s Leader, Cabinet Members and this year’s Mayor. It also agreed which councillors will sit on which committees over the coming year.
Internally, I will sit on the Children’s and Young People’s Scrunity Panel, Tenants Council and the Performance and Improvement Panel. Externally, I now represent the Council as the Chair of the Leyton and Whipps Cross Community Council and sit on the board of regeneration board O-Regen. I have also joined the board of the North Leyton Children’s Centre and have a number of other external projects, I wish to pursue, in the pipeline.
As the largest elected political group, Labour holds six out the ten available cabinet positions.
I will keep you fully informed of further developments.