Meet a Young Changemaker: Dollie Stifflell
Dollie has had an enormously transformative year, overcoming several personal trials in remarkable displays of resilience. She has gone from never eating at school since nursery to now regularly having…
Meet a Changemaker: Jane Williams, CEO of The Magpie Project
Jane set up The Magpie Project in 2017 to help local families facing insurmountable barriers to accessing help for their children – such as bus fares, concerns about immigration, lack…
Meet a Changemaker: Bethan Lant, Advocacy, Training & Development Manager, Praxis
Bethan has worked with migrants in east London, including many Newham residents, for over 22 years. Through her work at Praxis she has been involved in identifying the many health…
Meet a Changemaker: Ana France, Senior Family Support Worker at Kay Rowe Nursery School and Children’s Centre
What started as a two-week secondment in 2007, ended with Ana being asked to run the Deanery Road Children’s Centre. Ana has been a fixture in Newham’s family support offer…
Meet a Changemaker: Peter Chung
Peter grew up in Newham and loves how multicultural the borough is. He is passionate about the Ageing Well agenda; as co-chair of the Ageing Well Resident Advisory Group and…
Meet a Changemaker: Bill Hopkinson
Bill has worked closely with the council as co-chair of the Ageing Well Strategy Delivery Board. He runs the LGBTQ+ Seniors group, which meets for coffee and a chat to…
Meet a Changemaker: Sandra Amoah, Chair of ASK, User Led Mental Health Group and The Resident United Forum
Having experienced mental health discrimination herself, Sandra is the Chair of the ASK group, which advocates for and supports residents whose mental health affects their daily lives. Sandra is an…
Meet a Changemaker: Dr Imrana Siddiqui, GP and Mental Health Clinical Lead for North East London ICB
Imrana is passionate about reducing inequalities. As a GP, seeing patients struggle to access the care they need made her want to make health systems more accessible and relevant for…
Meet a Changemaker: Ben Levinson OBE, Director of School and Trust Development, The Tapscott Learning Trust, and Executive Headteacher, Kensington Primary School
Ben’s focus is around the potential for education and health to work more collaboratively and strategically to improve outcomes for children: as Headteacher of Kensington Primary School, he has worked…