Some of our past events

Pride Month Celebration 2025

Multicultural Week 2024

Tower Hamlets has lots to celebrate – we are a diverse community with a history of supporting each other and standing up against hate and prejudice. We’d love to hear how your school celebrated – let us know at rachael.garvin@neu.org.uk Here are some lessons which were used in Tower Hamlet Schools this week. Feel free to use them – let us know how your lessons go!

Here are some resources we used in our schools to celebrate the multiculturalism of Tower Hamlets. Feel free to use them. Please let us know if you have any resources that we could share.

Tower Hamlets and the City NEU Pride picnic 2024

Celebrating Pride at the Tower Hamlets Pride Picnic in Victoria Park. This was a great family friendly event.

Equalities conference: ‘curriculum without borders: Educate, include, empower

Workshop titles and leads:

• Voices of Trans and Non-Binary Youth – Ashie Nair she/they 🏳️‍⚧️
• ⁠Decolonising Your Pedagogy – Rae Garvin she/they 🇵🇸
• Fighting LGBT+phobia – Claudia Merlo she/her 🏳️‍🌈
• Disability toolkit: Organising in the workplace – Pablo Phillips he/him ✊🏾

Tower Hamlets and the City NEU Summer Social 2024

End of year celebration at Ariana in Mile End. We love to see both familiar faces and new ones!

Black Members Network event 2024

The NEU uses Black in a political context to encompass “all members who self-identify as Black, Asian and any other minority ethnic groups who do not identify themselves as white“.