Mohamed Omer

Board Member – External Affairs, Gardens of Peace Muslim Cemetery

Mohamed is currently involved with various charities: he is a Board member – External Affairs, Gardens of Peace Muslim Cemetery, based in Hainault Essex. This is the largest dedicated Muslim Cemetery in Europe and has a capacity for 10,000 graves and burials in accordance with Islamic Shariah.

Chair – National Burial Council (an umbrella body for all Muslim Community dealing with burials and deaths )

Member of the Burial Cremation Advisory Group at the Ministry of Justice representing the Muslim Community
He is a trustee of The Big Issue Invest – an organization funding Social Enterprises that are not able to obtain funding from banks. Mohamed has been actively involved with community work in East London for the last 15 years.

He is the Chair of the governors of Oaks Park High School in Ilford. Oaks park is a community school and the only PFI school in the borough.

Appointed as a trustee of Haven House Childrens Hospice in Woodford in August 2016 .

Executive Member of the Federation of Redbridge Muslim Organisations (FORMO )

Member of the advisory group on Counter Terrorism at Scotland Yard .

Chair of the Redbridge Faith Forum

Part of the APPG on Baby Loss

Part of the APPG on Bereavement