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 way back into fitness. She has met so many people…
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 with long-term health conditions or mental health issues. She is…
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, delivering free inclusive dance and movement sessions in Newham. Her…
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…
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 the streets and into shelter. She has close relationships with…
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 who are struggling with the cost of living, has become…
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 residents’ voices being heard and their needs being kept at…
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 Advisory Group. She has been a COVID-19 Champion and Peer…
Julia lives on a boat and is passionate about people and plants; she studied ethnobotany and has done work in Newham around health creation, equality and the environment. Her work taps into local green spaces, nature-based interventions and green prescribing.…
