Nahid Rasool
nahid@shantona.co.uk
CEO
Nahid has been managing the organisation since its foundation in 1998. In the beginning there was only Nahid and one other member of staff running the centre which then had a focus on supporting women purely from a Bangladeshi background. It quickly became apparent to Nahid that the centre’s services were in demand and as such, Shantona has grown in line to support the wider BAME communities.
Today, the centre has grown with over 30 staff into a diverse, multi-cultural organisation. Through Nahid’s work, she has met a lot of remarkable people: from community members to external organisation representatives as well as the wonderful team at Shantona. Nahid is a pro-active representative for voicing the needs of local people and issues affecting their lives. The Right Honourable Prime Minister David Cameron’s visit to Shantona in 2016 provided further testimony of the importance of such activities of the Centre.
Nahid is highly committed and passionate to improve race relations and to reduce inequality in education, health and other sectors. To supplement this, she is heavily involved in various strategic planning committees including the Education Leeds Equality and Diversity Team, Family support sub group, BME strategy group, Community cohesion strategy group’ and many others.
Adults and Community Team
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Our adults and community team is made up of a domestic violence support worker, Better Together programme project worker that supports and promotes healthy liefstyles, a complex needs worker who is dedciated to helping those with more diffcult issues, a BSBT project worker who runs the Strong Mothers, Stronger Daughters project that increases community cohesion and promotes healthy relationships and our Services Coordinator. Together they work to promote a happier and safer community for all.
To find out more contact admin@shantona.co.uk or call 0113 249 7120
Young People and Children Team
Preeti Tyagi
preeti@shantona.co.uk
Services Coordinator
Preeti is our young people's services manager. She develops and overlooks our youth work and manages staff and volunteers working with young people and children, as well as develop all young people’s services including our youth club, holiday activities, child sexual exploitation and domestic violence awareness amongst young people and their families. The focus of our young people’s services is to engage in a culturally sensitive way with mainly BAME girls and young men. We work with a wide range of partners and agencies working with children and young people.
Early Years Team
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The eary years team is made up of 7 permanant staff and several other volunteers and session workers. The team is managed by Tam Le and Sabuj Shalam. Together the team manages the Shantona nursery which invloves coordinating a full time early years sevice that caters for children from the age of 2 + years.
To find out more contact admin@shantona.co.uk or call 0113 249 7120
Sabuj Shalam and Tam Le
tam@shantona.co.uk
Early Years Managers
The purpose of their roles is to manage and develop of all early years staff and ensuring and facilitating the participation of service users. Tam and Sabuj are responsible for recruiting and maintaining sufficient numbers of children for outreach and partnership work, managing day to day activities, setting up sessions in-line with early years foundation stage curriculum and are responsible for planning and running an exciting range of play activities for children at the centre.
Diane Law
diane@shantona.co.uk
Development Coordinator
Diane works as our Development coordinator, focusing on fundraising and quality assurance for Shantona.
Administration and Operations Team
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Our admin and operations team is made up of management support workers and our CEO. This team handles all of our admin, finance, funding, business operations and the day to day taks we undertake at Shantona.
If you have any general enquiries please contact admin@shantona.co.uk or call 0113 249 7120 and one of our admin team will be happy to help.
