A Thanksgiving event at the end of the Mayor of Harrow, Cllr Rekha Shah’s year took place on Sunday and was attended by her Chaplains and Harrow’s religiously diverse communities and local organisations.
It was a great celebration of Harrow’s religious and cultural diversity which was the focus of the Mayoral year. Chaplains from different faiths all gave glowing recognition of Cllr Rekha Shah’s passion to bring communities together.
‘The Mayor, Cllr Rekha Shah, has proven herself a tireless and passionate advocate for the wellbeing of all her fellow men and women’ Rabbi Kathleen de Magtige-Middleton, one of five of the Mayor’s Chaplains from Harrow’s faith communities, announced at the Mayor’s Service of Thanksgiving. She continued ‘In everything the Mayor has done with and for the community, on a personal level, in her working life as a social worker, and this year in her mayoralty. She is a very humble person, with great vision that encompasses all faiths, who is true to her word and cares passionately about what she believes in. The Mayor was described to me as ‘small and amenable, but totally determined as well as a real mover and a shaker’. May you continue to ‘move and shake’ this community – and help us all weave a society as multi-cultural, as joyful, as engaging and inclusive as the picture taken at a local school reveals’.
‘This service has shown the depth of wisdom that comes from the plurality of our faiths by the prayers and readings that have been offered by my fellow chaplains. I too hope that we will continue that partnership in the future’.
The Mayor has also supported the community by raising more than £23,000 for local charities: Parkinson’s and Harrow Bereavement Care.
