Meet a Changemaker: Paul Archer, PE Teacher
Paul set up Newham Ability Camp after his son lost his sight 21 years ago – he wanted to give other people with disabilities the chance to participate in sport.…
Meet a Changemaker: Maddy Mattis, Teaching Assistant and Sports Coach
Maddy works with sports clubs and schools to help people build their confidence around health, fitness and personal growth. On recovering from cancer treatment, she found light exercise a great…
Meet a Changemaker: Bisi Imafidon, Extended Schools Manager, sports coach, fitness instructor and personal trainer
Bisi is passionate about making a difference in her local community. She works with residents who face additional barriers to getting active – such as older people, women, and people…
Meet a Changemaker: Stella Howard
Stella is passionate about bringing dance and the arts into health settings and vulnerable communities to encourage healthy relationships to movement. She is founder of Embrace Space: Arts & Wellbeing,…
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…
Meet a Changemaker: Ami Moulton, NEWdawn Night Shelter Manager
Ami works with the homeless community in the borough and is passionate about seeing affordable housing options in Newham. She runs a church-led winter night shelter, which takes people off…
Meet a Changemaker: Samantha White, Manager of Community Centre
For the past eight years, Samantha has helped homeless people by providing them with food, clothes and showers. The food bank she set up eight years ago, which supports people…
Meet a Changemaker: Hilda Mango, Rough Sleeping Partnership Board resident co-chair, Newham Homelessness Action Group resident co-chair, ELFT People Participation Digital Champion and Lead Assessor for the Service-User Led Accreditation
As an extremely active member of the Newham community, Hilda helps develop services for the borough in countless different ways. Knowing we all face numerous challenges, she is passionate about…
Meet a Changemaker: Katie Blake
Katie Blake is a long-standing council volunteer, who has contributed her time, knowledge and efforts to supporting a wide variety of community campaigns, such as the Ageing Well Strategy Resident…