Join the Branch Committee!

LONDON FREELANCE Branch welcomes Shaimaa Elhadidy and Ronahi-Lonai Hasan to its Committee. We still have vacancies - not least for a second Welfare Officer, who we would like to be female, given the personal nature of some of the work.

Student members, please do consider joining us too.

To discuss getting involved, contact a Committee member - see www.londonfreelance.org/lfb/contact.html

Members of the committee outside the Calthorpe Arms, an an important site in English legal history

Image © Mariam Elsayeh Ibrahim

Members in après-meet

The LFB Branch Committee held its first live meeting for more than three years in July. Many of the members, familiar only through the gallery on Zoom, had never met before - especially those who joined during the pandemic.

Their acquaintance was later expanded in or outside the historic Calthorpe Arms in Gray's Inn Road, just down the road from the NUJ head office. In this photo by Mariam Elsayeh, the others are (clockwise from Shaimaa Alhadidy in striped jacket) Mike Holderness, Nick Renault-Komiya, Tom Westcott, Henry Broome, Tony Levene, Phil Sutcliffe, Dapo Ladimeji, Tim Gopsill and Deborah Hobson. If you do want to know who does what job on the committee, you'll have to go to the list at the link above.