COVID-19 Act Now to avoid a Local Lockdown: Community Leaders Meeting: 15 September 2020

COVID-19 rates, areas and local lockdownWhat are the current infection rates in Redbridge? For every 100,000 people who live in Redbridge, around 36 people are testing positive for Coronavirus each day. Breakdown of what areas and ages the increase has been in? The areas with the highest infection rates are:• Barkingside• Bridge• Clementswood• Chadwell• Churchfields•…

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Spiritual view: Our duty to follow government guidelines

Article written by RFF Chair Mohamed Omer and published in the Ilford Recorder 15.8.2020 As the coronavirus pandemic seems to show no sign of abating and the worldwide death toll creeps ominously to one million, it becomes increasingly clear that this new way of life will become the norm. In religion, we find the ultimate…

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Changes to urgent treatment centres

Urgent care is for anything that needs the same day treatment. The way patients can get treatment for an urgent health problem is changing. If you have a minor injuries or minor illness, you can get treatment at an urgent treatment centre by calling NHS 111. Urgent treatment centres can treat most injuries and illnesses…

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People and the changing environment’ Tobacco Road and Brickfields of Meherpur

Blog by RFF member/supporter/volunteer Peter Musgrave Before the lockdown happened, Peter was planning on holding an exhibition of his Bangladeshi photographs in July at the Meditation Centre in Angel  Islington, called ‘People and the changing environment’ in conjunction with a workshop. It was of photos he had taken in Bangladesh over the years. The Plan was…

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