Your Labour councillors for Chatham

Contact your Labour councillors on chatham@hackney-labour.org.uk

Advice surgeries for Chatham Labour councillors:

Cllr Luke Akehurst:

Date: 2nd Friday each month Start: 6.30pm End: 7.30pm 

Venue: Hackney Town Hall 

Address: Mare Street, London E8 1EA 

Cllr Sally Mulready:

Date: Last Friday each month Start: 7.00pm End: 8.00pm 

Venue: Hackney Town Hall 

Address: Mare Street, London E8 1EA 

Note:Cllr Mulready will undertake home visits to elderly people. 

Cllr Guy Nicholson:

Date: 3rd Friday each month Start: 6.30pm End: 7.30pm 

Venue: Banister House Community Centre 

Address: Banister House Estate, London E9 6BN 

More about the team:

Cllr Sally Mulready
Sally Mulready has been a Labour Councillor for Chatham Ward since 1998.
 
Aged 60, Sally is married with four children and three grandchildren born at Homerton hospital and attending Hackney schools. She has lived in Hackney since 1966. She is active in her local Parish church of St Thomas Moore, running an advice service for elderly people there. She is currently an out-patient at the excellent Cardiology Department at the Homerton. She is a member of Unite and Unison.
 
During her twelve years as a Councillor Sally has built up a good reputation in the Ward for getting things done.  She especially works to assist more vulnerable and isolated constituents –older people and women from ethnic minority communities who are often isolated and struggling to bring up children alone.
 
She is a Board member of Chats Palace and has recently fought to secure funding for Chats to repair the roof and undertake other urgent works to ensure Chats remains a thriving local Arts resource.
 
Sally is Hackney’s Cabinet Adviser on Equalities and Disabilities Officer of the London Labour Party. Her top priorities if re-elected are improving local housing and schools and ensuring equal opportunities for all local residents.
 
Cllr Luke Akehurst
Luke Akehurst has been a Labour Councillor for Chatham Ward since 2002.
 
As Chief Whip of Hackney Labour Group 2002-2009 Luke helped create the political stability that has built the right environment for the Mayor and Council to massively improve services.
 
Aged 38, he has lived in Hackney with his partner Linda, also a councillor, for twelve years. They have a four year old son at nursery in the borough. Luke works as a Director at the UK’s largest public relations company. He is an active member of the Unite trade union.
 
During the last year Luke has been a neurology outpatient at the Homerton Hospital and had regular physiotherapy at St Leonard’s, and is a passionate supporter of the NHS after a serious illness put him in hospital for five months. As a wheelchair user he understands the needs of local residents with disabilities.
 
He has been a primary school governor since 1998 and is a member of Sanctuary Housing Association’s South Hackney Committee, which oversaw the regeneration of Morningside Estate.
 
Luke’s top priorities if re-elected are improving social housing, increasing community safety and supporting police efforts to cut crime, and continuing to improve Hackney’s schools.

Cllr Guy Nicholson
Guy Nicholson has been a Hackney Labour Councillor since 1998, representing Chatham Ward since 2002.
 
Guy is 49 and married with one daughter. He lives in the ward on Sutton Place and has lived in Hackney for 22 years. Guy is a member of the Community trade union and part of the TUC-led working group on the Playfair 2012 campaign – using the 2012 Olympics to campaign for fair pay across the sports industry in the UK and abroad.
 
Guy is Hackney’s Cabinet member for Regeneration and the 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games; making sure that regeneration and the Olympics in Hackney benefit us all in Hackney. 
 
Guy’s priorities are economic growth and development that supports all residents, is accessible and improves our quality of life; jobs for residents and opportunities for local businesses to grow; and using Culture and the Arts to strengthen our community.
 
Guy is proud of the millions of pounds being invested to support and improve our local schools, our local award winning Chatham Police team which has cut levels of crime by over a third living in Chatham, and the improvement to our streets and our local open spaces.