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Meg is supporting a campaign for safer holidays set up by the mother of Eden Galvani Skeete who died last year in a tragic fire accident on holiday in Turkey.

The Eden Trust campaign for safer holidays was launched in Westminster on Thursday 19th July.

The trust has been set…

Events attended include:

04/06 – London 2012 brand launch 05/06 – Runnymede Trust seminar – community studies 11/06 – Diane Abbott 20th anniversary – celebrating black women in public life reception 11/06 – Academy of Sport East London lottery award giving 12/06 – City & Hackney Mind women prisoners campaign meeting 13/06 – Launch of…

On Tuesday 17 July I had the pleasure of opening the new children’s centre in Haggerston.

Hackney currently has 14 children’s centres and is to receive over £23 million from Government for children centres from 2008 to 2011.

Part of the funding will enable centres to employ outreach workers to…

Meg today called for respect for shopworkers.

Meg visited the Co-op store at Gainsborough Studios, New North Road to meet with shopworkers and hear their stories.

A recent survey shows that over a third of shopworkers are verbally abused every month in their workplace. A quarter of staff suffer abuse…

Local schools Gayhurst, Haggerston, Lauriston and Sebright have all been awarded the Arts Council England Artsmark award 2007.

The Artsmark award honours schools that have shown a commitment to the arts, giving pupils a range of arts opportunities in school time and out-of-hours and through external partnerships.

Meg said, ‘It…