Appointed Governors
Viv Ahmun has founded and been the Co-Director of many businesses, civil society organisations and networks in recruitment, enterprise development, primary healthcare, tech-based coms, and impact investment. In his early years he grew a multimillion pound national charity from just £20,000 annually and was one the first Black men to sit on the London Probation Board, when it was the main board for the country.
Viv is a seasoned social policy veteran, corporate governance and leadership advisor. He is also a former Home Office and Mayoral strategic advisor to the London Mayors Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson.
In 2021, he was honoured by the African Achievers Awards, held at Kensington Palace, for services to enterprise (Africa-based start-ups and the popularisation of technology-based business solutions in East Africa). In service to his community during the Covid-19 lockdown, he and his colleagues established the Baobab Foundation which is a multimillion-pound philanthropy brand which raised a 27 million pound endowment and gives £3 million annually to Black micro organisations in the UK.
He currently spends an increasing amount of his time on brokering inward investment from North America and Europe into Africa, whilst working with others in the diaspora to build Africa’s infrastructure from the inside out through his recently co-founded Open Africa SPV. His social impact work remains at the centre of everything he does.
I’m an Eastender through and through and have lived in Newham for more than 40 years.
I specialise in working with charities setting them up and helping deliver services.
My priorities are ending homelessness, ensuring good quality housing, and ensuring the police are accountable and responsive.
Elected Councillor (Aspire) for Poplar Ward, Tower Hamlets
Cabinet member for Health, Wellbeing and Social Care.
Sade is a mother of four children and has lived in Hackney for 16 years. She is keen to encourage the values of diversity, equality and solidarity.
She is a Hackney Council Cabinet member, tackling homelessness and housing needs, fighting for a better deal for homeless people. She is also No place for hate champion for Hackney, working to bring unity and peace to the borough and its diverse communities and faiths.
She is a trustee of Newington Green Alliance and works with other local groups to improve community life in Clissold ward and area. She loves to play table tennis in Clissold Leisure Centre.
Sade is a member of Institute of Leadership & Management and other professional associations
Councillor (Labour) for Challney Ward (Luton Unitary Authority)
Portfolio holder for Public Health
Awaiting profile
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