Hackney Speaker’s charity soirée last night ⁦JermainJackman🇬🇾⁩ ⁦Abney Park Trust⁩ @layyah2000 @crawleycallum ⁦⁦⁦HackneyMusicService⁩ kindly sponsored by ⁦Better Hackney⁩ 🙌🎶🎤❤️⁦Hackney Migrant Centre⁩ ⁦⁦Rising Tide Trust⁩ 🙌⁦

A great children's party at the Lord Mayor of London annual event 🙂 Every year the civic mayors of each borough are invited to put forward the name of one young person and accompanying adult. 😍 So that they can attend. Hope our young Hackney attendees enjoyed the event 🎊🎉

Thank you to everyone who came to my Hackney History Festival talk today at the Round Chapel. I really enjoyed sharing my fascination with local history artefacts that are often easy to overlook, whether on pavements or high up on buildings, from coalhole covers and boot scrapers to

Very pleased to introduce Richard Yeboah today at the second Hackney History Festival at the Round Chapel. There is a line in a poem in the book , which reads... "So I'll stay here and keep the faith" ... yes we are still here and we keep the faith , all these long years !

It was great to present at the Hackney History Festival yesterday on my new book 'From Hackney, With Love' and the story of gentrification in the Borough. A wonderful introduction from Hackney Speaker too! My book is officially out on 29th May! amzn.eu/d/fL7AsbQ #Hackney

Come and visit our beautiful Hospice gardens! 🌸🌿 We're opening our gardens to the public as part of the National Garden Scheme National Garden Scheme on Saturday 31st May, 10am - 4.30pm. Admission £3, children go free! 📍St Joseph's Hospice, E8 4SA stjh.org.uk/event/hospice-…

Privileged to attend a moving and thoughtful VE service of commemoration and thanksgiving at the Bevis Marks Synagogue on Sunday. Thank you for making me so welcome.

After a long day it was very special to catch up with my dear friends from Frampton Baptist Church ☺️ Let's always try and make time for each other 🫂

Happy to be invited to Camden Town Hall by the Mayor of Camden and to share our journey as civic mayors together and to support our local charities.

Just a reminder how talented our young people are ....Hackney Music Service students performing at the Abney Park Chapel, an evening with Jermain Jackman for the Speakers charity ♥️

Kick off the day with our first Borough of Sanctuary Steering Group meeting! Huge thanks to our community and vol sector partners, and especially our Sanctuary Ambassadors whose lived experiences and insights will be invaluable as we work toward becoming a Borough of Sanctuary.

My speakership year is almost over. It has been a privilege to represent and champion our borough as your Speaker for 2024-2025 . It has been an honour to fulfil both civic and ceremonial duties. I'm proud of our Hackney and our strong diverse community .

Sadly the only one not wearing a beautiful costume .......still part of our wonderful Hackney , still celebrating our community

The High Sheriff of Greater London, the Joint Civil Defence Team, Layah the winner of the UK Rap Game and young Hackney ...it doesn't get any better! From Hackney with Love ♥️

Photo shoot this morning in the Speaker' s Parlour with the 2012 Olympic Torch and the Torchbearer, reliving the moment and celebrating our young people who live and work In Hackney 👏🏽

As Sheila Suso-Runge (Cllr) prepares to step down from her post as #SpeakerofHackney, we wanted to take a moment to thank her for her unwavering #support and #commitment to young people and the borough. Thank you for everything Sheila

A big thank you to Cllr Anntoinette Bramble for the kind invite to tonight’s Hackney Council Annual Meeting. It was a a real privilege to witness the Speaker Making ceremony! Congratulations Sheila Suso-Runge (Cllr) on a fantastic year, and best of luck to the new Hackney Speaker for the year ahead!

Thank you to all staff & organisers of the Annual General Meeting & Community Reception yesterday. I want to thank all our Hackney Staff & Hackney Community for making my speakership so memorable. I welcome our new Speaker and wish her well in her year of office.

Congratulations to Cllr Sharon Patrick for her election as Speaker at Hackney Council's Annual Meeting last night. Future tweets from this account will be from or on behalf of Speaker Patrick.

Attending the launch of Stamford Hill Estates Football Programme on Tuesday #salaampeace Hackney Council Hackney Council