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.…
Angie and her family have lived and worked in Newham for six generations. She has always operated on the front line, having worked as a child protection social worker for 20 years, and later in a local charity. Angie started…
Darshana has lived and worked in Newham for over 25 years. She loves to connect with people and draws her energy from this diverse and thriving borough which has given her numerous career opportunities and a fulfilling life. Darshana’s work…
Celia set up ClimateYouChange.org in 2019 with the aim of addressing the climate emergency through community education and individual lifestyle changes. ClimateYouChange is an inclusive group of people who all share the same goals. They are involved in wide-ranging educational…
