I have been involved in community work and activism through my own community, The Hindu Cultural Society. It helped me be able to use my voice and connect to other Faiths and communities to work more cohesively in Middlesbrough and the Wider Tees Valley area. I have been involved in system change initiatives in both the Education and the community sectors and I am now bringing those skills to the work I will be helping to develop and facilitate in the Redcar and Cleveland area.
The work that we are currently carrying out is around In-work poverty in East Cleveland. We are looking at how do we use a community-led approach to develop sustainable solutions to addressing in-work poverty and its impact in rural communities and how learning from these approaches can feed into issues in the urban areas and other initiatives across the South Tees.
I am looking forward to working closely with colleagues and partners both in Redcar and Cleveland, and in MVDA where I'm being hosted.
Local Implementation Lead, Redcar and Cleveland
Geeta is hosted at MVDA to be working alongside Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales. She is the Local Implementation Lead for the Peoples and Communities work in Redcar and Cleveland.
- Email: Geeta.Sharma@LBFEWcommunities.org.uk
- Telephone: 07362514915