Last week I met with Marian and her brilliant team of volunteers at Preloved@45 – the new community shop on Wellinger Way, Braunstone. Pop along and see their great range of quality children’s, women’s and men’s clothing, household items, white goods & toys!
On Friday I met with brilliant pupils at Braunstone Frith Primary School who are campaigning to make their school safe by dealing with traffic problems on Tatlow Road. It was great to hear their concerns, and to discuss the possible solutions available, and to agree the next steps of the […]
It was fantastic to see democracy in action on Election Day for school council at Heatherbrook Primary last week. There were some fantastic manifestos and candidates …. good luck all!
On Friday I visited the fantastic Christ the King Catholic Voluntary Academy in Leicester. I met with the wonderful school council, and especially enjoyed hearing about their “every second counts” approach in learning and achievement. Without doubt, the best part of any week is visiting our schools in Leicester West. […]
It was lovely meeting with Yvie Woods, Paige Snow & Luc Honey who are doing Level 3 BTEC in Health & Social Care at New College Leicester. They are so passionate about their work and raised concerns about the lack of provision of proper infant CPR training to new parents […]
Yesterday I spoke in a Westminster Hall Debate on vaccination of children against Covid-19. I welcome the fact that children are now being offered a Covid vaccine following advice from the UK’s Chief Medical Officer. This will be vital to keeping them in the classroom which is so beneficial […]
On Friday I had a busy day chairing Feeding Leicester, a group trying to eradicate food poverty in the city, discussed the ground-breaking work TUC Midlands have been doing to tackle worker exploitation in Leicester’s textile industry, and spoke with Cllr Sarah Russell and Cllr Elly Cutkelvin on concerns with […]
Last week I attended the opening of the amazing Walkers Re-play football pitch at the New Parks Hub in New Parks with Gary Lineker, Emile Heskey, and Abbie McManus, as well as other Leicester Legends and players from Leicester Women. The pitch, which has been funded by Walkers, is one […]
Last week I visited Stokes Wood Primary School and New Parks Adventure Playground who are both taking part in Leicester’s brilliant Holiday Activities and Food programme. At Stokes Wood headteacher, Jane Gadsby, and her team have been giving children such a great start to their summer with mud monsters, henna […]
Last Friday I had an amazing day visiting Leicester City Council’s Holiday Activities and Food scheme at Fosse Primary School and the Woodgate Adventure Playground. The City Council have been working with Premier Education UK at Fosse Primary and other schools across the city to provide lots of brilliant […]
On Friday I had a superb day being shown around the newly built Space Park Leicester where they are bringing together world class research & world leading industries to create jobs & skills of future. Space science is used in so many sectors (artificial intelligence, agriculture, cyber security, climate change) […]
It was fantastic to meet Jo Randall from Team Hub & Neetu Squire from Leicestershire Cares recently, and to hear of the great work they do. The whole team is doing amazing work to support the community in New Parks, with a big focus on children & young people, which […]