Meet a Changemaker: Peter Laing, Chief Executive Officer, Newham Community Renewal Programme

Peter is passionate about tackling the underlying causes of poverty and disadvantage by focusing on community engagement, mental health support, and improving access to essential services and activities that contribute to overall wellbeing. He is Chief Executive of The Renewal Programme, which works with 3,500 people every year, most of whom are from marginalised global majority communities. His work focuses around the core values of dignity, inclusion, collaboration and empowerment, and he is interested in helping to co-create a borough where everyone can easily take steps to stay healthy, with the support they need to prevent illness before it starts.