Emdad Rahman The Bangla Mirror Group, the publishers of the Bangladeshi Who’s Who – the first ever Bangladeshi power list – have announced plans for the eagerly anticipated 2016 publication of this compendium of the best of British Bangladeshi life. ...
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Final push to fund life-saving cancer treatment
Mo Haque Channel S (Sky 814) and the Beani Bazar Cancer & General Hospital have teamed up to help me, Mo Haque, by organising a live TV appeal on 9th November, from 6pm to 1am. This a last push to ...
Read More »Emdad completes 100k for Alzheimers research
Muhammad Ismael Emdad Rahman celebrated reaching 100k to help raise funds and awareness for Alzheimer’s Research UK by enjoying a cup of tea with Councillor Khales Ahmed – the Speaker of Tower Hamlets. He said, “Emdad’s achievement is a tremendous ...
Read More »Sir Michael Barber speaks at London Muslim Centre
Sir Michael Barber has spent his professional life in education. He moved from working for the National Union of Teachers to advising Tony Blair on the delivery of policies. He took to government like a duck to water, analysing how ...
Read More »Haverhill Electrical Suppliers lift business award
Emdad Rahman Haverhill Electrical Suppliers are celebrating almost four decades of top class service after winning the best business category at the inaugural Suffolk BME Business Awards 2016. Haverhill Electrical Suppliers has been established for over 35 years, supplying national retailers ...
Read More »Barking Madina Masjid supports Ummah Welfare Trust
Emdad Rahman The UK-based humanitarian charity Ummah Welfare Trust (UWT) organised an assembly at Madina Masjid, Barking & Dagenham, as part of a Syria children’s appeal. Earlier this year staff and volunteers at Ummah Welfare Trust had launched an Eid ...
Read More »Football and cricket unite for One Third soup kitchen
Emdad Rahman It was a case of Chelsea and Scintilla Cricket club providing a sporting theme as our One Soup Kitchen hit the streets to enjoy our weekly catch up with London’s homeless citizens. The heavens had opened. It was ...
Read More »London Enterprise Academy pupils become Dementia Friends
Muhammad Ismael As part of a character building initiative, Year 8 students at the London Enterprise Academy in London E1 have been learning about dementia and the effect the brain disease has on the lives of people. Dementia Friends Champion Emdad ...
Read More »Neighbours in Poplar raise money for the needy
Emdad Rahman Members of Neighbours in Poplar had a productive weekend as youngsters planned, ran and sold goods at a community event to raise money for a girls school in Bangladesh. The young people came up with the idea after hearing ...
Read More »Rare medal on show at Docklands Museum
On the night of 16th September 1940, near the beginning of the London Blitz, Nazi forces began to drop naval mines for the first time over London. Many failed to explode and created an imminent threat to the safety of ...
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