The Team

Tom Harrigan MBE - Head of External Relations

On retiring at the rank of Chief Inspector in 2005 after 30 years service with Strathclyde Police, Tom was appointed to the position of Inter Faith Liaison Officer with Glasgow City Council. This post, with a time frame of 3 years was part funded by both Glasgow City Council and the then Scottish Executive. His primary role was to foster good relations between the faith communities across the city and to act as a conduit between the council and said faith communities. He is a long-standing Member of the Chartered Management Institute, and in his spare time is personally committed to voluntary charity work in India, Pakistan, Africa and here at home. Tom was honoured in 2005 by HRH Queen Elizabeth II when he received an MBE for services to the Police and the Community.  Tom is also involved with the following organisations:

• Glasgow the Caring City - General Secretary

• UK Friends of Unique Home Punjab India- Founder Member

• Glasgow Inter-Cultural Arts Group - Treasurer

Shaukat Sultan - Project Manager

Shaukat has a say in all the projects roshni run, with particular emphasis on the 'Protecting You Protecting Children' project.  It is through his hard work and dedication that roshni has over 50 organisations registered directly with this project.

Anela Anwar - Training & Development Manager

Anela, a graduate in Law, has over ten years experience working with minority ethnic communities spanning training, research, youth empowerment and community engagement. She has developed and lead several grass roots projects aimed at minority ethnic communities, particularly minority ethnic women and young people. Anela has developed and delivered training programmes on equalities, human rights as well as our Abuse, Culture and Child Protection programme.

Stephen Whitelaw - Communications & Digital Media

Stephen combines a solid educational and technical background with over two decades of business experience. After co-founding the software company Buchanan International Inc in Silicon Valley, Stephen founded the UK headquarters of Buchanan in Scotland.  Stephen spent three years working in the field of Enterprise Security in both the USA and Russia. Stephen is married with one child.

Shameem Ahmed - Communication & Development Officer

Shameem has been actively involved in community work, having set up a children's weekend school and is currently working as a trainee relationship counsellor.  Shameem is passionate about ensuring the well being of childen, young people and adults within ME communites. Having been an active supporter of roshni since its inception, Shameem is now part of the roshni team. Her varied skill sets and determination will bring a new dimension to the work of roshni

Volunteers

roshni owe a tremendous debt to our volunteers, past, present and hopefully for the future. they are too numerous to individualise, however, that is exactly what will be done in the very near future.

roshni will set up an additional page to individually thank and name each volunteer who has given their time effort and energy.