Manjula Sood

UK's and Leicester City Council's first Asian female Lord Mayor from Thursday May 15th 2008 to May 2009.

Affiliations
Councillor Sood holds and has held the following positions:-


 * Sport England East Midlands Regional Champion
 * Chair for the Leicester Council of Faiths
 * Vice Chair and Women's Officer for the Constituency Labour Party (CLP)
 * Member of the Asian Refuge Shelter
 * Member of the Afro Caribbean Working Party
 * Trustee of the North Memorial Homes in Leicester, a charity created for war veterans
 * Vice Chair and Public Relations Officer for Fibromyalgia, a charity for which the Minister of Health, Rt. Hon Patricia Hewitt is the Patron
 * Active member of the Leicester Domestic Violence Forum
 * Active member of the Older People Forum
 * Member of the Faith Regeneration Advisory Group, actively engaged with developing a multi faith centre in Leicester
 * Member of the Inter Faith Network UK since 1995
 * Chair of numerous Mental Health regional conferences and member CSIP (Department of Health Care Services Improvement Partnership)
 * Chair of Narilets, an organisation solely created with a vision to enhance the skills and the experience of ethnic minority women in Leicester encouraging them to be more immersed in commerce, successfully securing funding from the National Lottery
 * Non Executive Director at Leicester Glenfield Hospital for three years from 1998 to 2001 for the NHS Trust
 * Vice Chair of Equal Opportunities, Education and Social Services for Leicester City Council
 * Governor of Leicester College of Further Education
 * Governor for the Trinity Hospital in Leicester
 * Patron, Guild of St Martin
 * Advisory Board, These Young Minds

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