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Emdad Rahman With a glorious summer day in full swing, The Lighted Path, a new Tower Hamlets-based mental health project, was launched during a small community fun day at Sir John MacDougal Gardens on the Isle of Dogs. The family ...

Saturday, 4th June offers young and the young-at-heart a great afternoon out at the Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park. The Friends of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park are holding their annual Summer Fair from 12 noon until 5pm. There will be the ...

Emdad Rahman A crowdfunding campaign has begun for Weavers Kids Cafe, an enterprising community project in the north west of the borough. The Café is trying to get as many different people as possible to pledge what they can before ...

Stepney City Farm will be hosting its first fundraiser on the Summer Solstice — Monday, 20th June. The evening will begin at 6pm with a range of entertainment and activities, which will go on until 11pm. Stepney City Farm is ...

Tower Hamlets Council has welcomed government measures to reduce smoking this month – at the same time as it prepared to axe nearly £1 million from its own smoking cessation service over the next couple of years. The Council chose ...

Emdad Rahman Military sieges in Madaya, Ghouda and Moadamiyah have left a million Syrians facing starvation. Accordingly, the Ummah Welfare Trust (UWT) organised a weekend of fundraising activities to support affected people in these areas – where food is so ...

Emdad Rahman The Lighted Path, a new Tower Hamlets-based mental health project, is launching on Sunday, 5th June 2016 at Sir John Macdougal Gardens, 121 Westferry Road, London E14. The project aims to raise awareness of mental health, and volunteers ...

The latest edition of The Voice – newsletter of the East London Garden Society – has announced the launch of a crowdfunding campaign to create a London Community Flower Show. The news comes out as the slightly snooty Chelsea Flower ...

Emdad Rahman A community group of friends have got together and agreed to spend a significant amount of time doing something charitable and positive. The peer group came up with the idea of holding a weekend charity car wash with 100% ...

It was 25-4-25 on 26th May, as 25 parliamentarians turned out to celebrate 25 years of Human Appeal and launch the charity’s 2016 Ramadan campaign, which is being run in conjunction with the Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding. ...