• AT the weekend, with support from JW3 and Camden Council, I hosted a Great Get Together (GGT) in JW3.

It brought together members of the local community and councillors to celebrate diversity and promote cohesion. These kind of events helps to strengthen the community and build connections with our voluntary sector partners.

Like other GGT events, we are honouring the words of the late Jo Cox MP: “We are far more united and have far more in common than that which divides us.”

The GGT is a huge campaign to bring communities together and achieve national unity. We are standing up for the values Jo Cox believed in; respect, kindness, community and love.

I am grateful to the staff and volunteers at JW3 and council colleagues for all the practical help they gave to put on this event.

It was a wonderful gathering of our neighbours and we met some people for the first time. We enjoyed our conversations over tea, coffee, biscuits and cakes.

Of course, we shouldn’t have to wait for an event to meet. We should catch up with our neighbours throughout the year not just once a year.

However, I will work hard to make next year’s West Hampstead Great Get Together event even better and I would welcome any suggestions from New Journal readers for how it could be improved.

Please feel free to email your suggestions to me at Nazma.rahman@camden.gov.uk.

CLLR NAZMA RAHMAN
Labour, West Hampstead ward