Memon Centre Leicester

Hi Thank you for visiting the original Blogsite of the Leicester Memon Centre. This blog has now merged with our main site : http://www.memoncentre.com Please visit our new site from now on to get regular updates about the centre. The new blog is actually called Notice Board (so as to not sound too technical!) and it's location is: http://www.memoncentre.com/documents/blog.php Thank you for your visit. Shuaib http://www.memoncentre.com

Over a week ago, we asked the following question on this website. The poll was open for a week and ended on 28 May. Thanks to the 31 people who voted, and here are the results (in order of the most votes): WHAT DO YOU WANT THE NEW COMMITTEE TO DO IN THE NEXT 2 MONTHS? Get the Centre extension project going: ... 16 people = 51% Barbecue: .......... .......... .......... . .... ..... 9 people = 29% Collect funds for a charitable cause: ........ 3 people = 9% Excursion/ Trip to Skegness: ................. 2 people = 6% Sports tournament :............................. 1 person = 3% So the majority of the people (over half!) want the extension project to start, closely followed by a Barbecue at the Centre in the next 2 months. Perhaps the committee can COMBINE these 2 things and arrange a Fundraising Barbecue say sometime in July where all proceeds go towards the Centre Extension Project! Apart from that, a lot of other comments and suggestions have been received so far which we will insh...

MESSAGE FROM COMMITTEE MEMBER, IMTIAZ GAFFAR: "Thanks to all who took part in Wednesday event, we need your support in future." I. Gaffar

The football match gathering on Wednesday at 730pm at the Memon Centre was organised by Imtiaz Gaffar and Ashraf Okhai. The event was a great success and approx 80 people turned up which included a number of kids. Food was excellent and everyone enjoyed the evening thoroughly. Our special thanks to Irfan Karim (Iffy) for sorting out the screen. Also many thanks to Asif Apex, Shabbir Rangers, Shiraz Nathani, Rafik Alif and all the others for their help in assisting with the occassion. Also thanks to Koyla Restaurant and Best Buy Cash & Carry for offering discounted food and drinks. We wish to organise these evnts on a regular basis and request your support. Please leave your comment if you have any suggestions and ensure you submit your email details to the website to be informed of similar forthcoming events. Submitted by Ashraf Okhai to memoncentre.news@blogger.com ___________________________________________________ Note: You can now submit member's posts like the one above d...

We have just a added a small poll on the right hand side of the website. Please take part in it, thanks. Since the election of the new commitee on Sunday, we have started having various comments on the website about what needs to be done at the Memon Centre. Thanks to all who have submitted their suggestions so far. Just to be specific, we have shortlisted a choice of 5 random things that the new committee could do in the next 2 months. Please vote for one of them so we can get a feel for what the majority of people want the new committee to do. We will post the results on the site after a week when the poll end, and hopefully the committee will kick-start with the most voted-for suggestions. Of course if you have any other alternative suggestions for the next 2 months, please leave a comment. Thanks Shuaib Website Committee PS: We are also experimenting with the colours on the site, please let us know what you think, thanks.

NEWSFLASH: These are the results of the Committee Elections held at the Centre today: 1) Chairman: MUHAMMAD JAKHURA 2) Vice Chairman: SIKANDER SATTAR 3) Secretary: NAZIR OKHAI 4) Treasurer: NAVSAR SACRANIE 5) Member: MAJID SUIDA 6) Member: IQBAL ALIMAHOMED 7) Member: IMTIAZ GAFFAR 8) Member: KHALID JUSSAB 9) Member: SHABBIR GAFFAR 10) Member: RAFIK VINDHANI 11) Member: KHALID GAFFAR 12) Member: (TO BE CO-OPTED) 13) Member: (TO BE CO-OPTED) Eleven positions were available (with a further 2 to be co-opted by the new committee in due course). Thank you to all who attended, voted, all the nominees and congratulations to all members in the new commitee. To congratulate and / or make a suggestion to the new committee about what needs to be done at the Memon Centre, please leave a comment. Thanks

STOP PRESS Last-minute announcement. General elections for the Memon Centre committee are being held at the centre tomorrow afternoon. Hope everybody is able to attend. Shuaib Website Committee PS: If you weren't aware of this, we sincerely apologise, and this is precisely why we have set up this new website. So please submit your brief details (first name & email address only!) to be kept updated of community news and forthcoming events! Jazakallah.

Salaams Welcome to the new website for the Leicester Memon Centre. If you want to be kept informed by email of events at the centre, please give us your first name & email address on the right hand side. Jazakallah