Tom Fletcher
- Credit: Everyone Active
Harrow Lodge Leisure Centre manager has been picked as Havering s hero for his contribution to the community during the pandemic.
The project, hosted by the BBC, asked London councils to nominate a lockdown hero in their borough – someone who has made a significant difference to their community in this difficult time.
The team delivered more than 3,000 food packages and over 500 PPE deliveries to shielding residents, local food banks, care homes and key workers
- Credit: Everyone Active
Tom Fletcher, area contract manager for Everyone Active leisure centres in Havering, worked with the local authority to set up a support hub at Hornchurch Sports Centre - which has been replaced by Harrow Lodge - in March last year to meet the needs of the local community with the outbreak of Covid-19.
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Colette Allen (left) and Polly Mann outside Hackney Quest on Poole Road.
- Credit: Andrew Leo
The director of a Hackney charity is nominated as the borough’s lockdown hero for BBC Radio London’s Make a Difference Hero campaign on Sunday.
Originally from Edinburgh, Colette Allen has worked at the youth charity Hackney Quest for 20 years and was nominated by the council in the scheme honouring those making a difference to their local communities during the Covid pandemic.
Based on Poole Road, the charity has 100 volunteers and works to provide mentoring services, activities, and support to more than 300 young people in the borough.