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Hackney Marsh Partnership is a community development organisation based on the Kingsmead Estate.

It provides a number of services for the local community from after school clubs to legal advice. It grew from a shop refurbishment project by nearby St Barnabas, Christ Church and All Soul's churches. Residents said they…

Homerton High Street boasts one of London's longest standing green businesses.

The children's scrap project is an Aladdin's cave of raw materials for arts and crafts, all materials that would be otherwise thrown away. Members of the scrap project (mostly schools and youth projects) pay a flat fee to have…

I recently visited Nous Aussi; a charity that provides help for minority ethnic French speakers in London.

The charity, based in St John at Hackney community space centre, works with adults and children to help them in education and to access employment.

Twenty-seven African countries have French as either a…

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone in Hackney South and Shoreditch

And congratulations to Vita at Our Lady and St Joseph’s primary school for her fantastic winning design for my Parliamentary Christmas card. Congratulations also to the runners up from Our Lady and St Joseph’s and Queensbridge…

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1. Parliamentary Business

Queen’s speech On Wednesday 3 December the Queen visited Parliament to read her speech which gives details of…