Community

Emdad Rahman VOTE FOR Ability Bow in the Aviva Community Fund competition and you could help them win up to £10,000 to work with more disabled people and people with long term health conditions.  The “Join in” project will be ...

ROMAN READ is 18 years of age.  He was last seen at 8.30am on Thursday, 2nd November in a silver car on Cranmer Gardens in Dagenham. His disappearance is out of character and his family are growing increasingly concerned about ...

AS THE CRISIS in the Rohingya camps in Bangladesh escalates, Islamic Relief has announced that it is scaling up the level of humanitarian aid it is delivering in the area. The charity hopes to support 300,000 people who are trying ...

MORE THAN half of the Rohingya people who have fled Myanmar are children. They have fled from the danger of being killed to the danger of dying. As the world prevaricates, Human Aid is trying to keep them alive. In ...

Emdad Rahman IN AN EFFORT to improve health and wellbeing, some residents in Barking & Dagenham have set up a running club for the residents of the Leftley Estate and beyond. For the last six months, “Walk & Talk” running ...

THE EAST LONDON MOSQUE has invited companies to tender to provide Umrah and Hajj trips in partnership with the Mosque. It is anticpated that the services will be provided by specialist companies. The Umrah trip is expected to be held ...

Emdad Rahman TOWER HAMLETS Councillor Mahbub Alam joined the local Muslim community in Long Melford, Suffolk, to engage in a short discussion on Remembrance Day. The event was hosted by Razak Amin (Shahid).  The group also went out with the ...

AT THE START of this month, the Metropolitan Police Service launched this year’s round of an annual initiative which gives Volunteer Police Cadets (VPC) the chance to work alongside Metropolitan Police staff. The programme gives 26 cadets, aged between 15 ...

SHROUDED IS A very short film – but it lives with you for days after you’ve watched it. In its tiny form it is a film of jarring contradictions and shuddering earthquakes that make you confront your prejudices and your expectations. ...

THE VOLUNTEER POLICE CADET Programme (VPC) is a youth engagement and diversion programme supported by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS). It’s for young people aged 10 to 24 years and it gives them the chance to learn about policing skills, ...