Manjula Sood

UK's and Leicester City Council's first Asian female Lord Mayor from Thursday May 15th 2008 to May 2009. ^[1]

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 ^[2]

↑ Manjula Sood Bio, organizational web page, accessed October 4, 2012.
↑ These Young Minds Advisory Board, organizational web page, accessed October 26, 2013.