Staff Spotlight – Habiba Begum, Community Development Project Manager, Challenge ELBA
When did you join ELBA / BIG Alliance?
August 2024
What is your role and what does it involve?
As a Community Development Project Manager in the Challenge team, I facilitate building connections between our corporate and community partners through offering practical team volunteering opportunities.
Three words to describe yourself
Curious, reliable, creative
Tell us one thing that people may not know about you
I love watching a wide range of films. I watched about 150 films during lockdown (although I am not a fan of horror, not because I actually find it scary, but because the jump scares are too unsettling for me! If I had a choice I would turn the sound off in horror films!)
Tell us the best thing about working for ELBA
Engaging with charity organisations to support real on the ground social impact for incredibly deserving local communities.
Name your favourite place in east London and why
Bethnal Green – although I don’t go there often anymore after moving, but it’s where I am from, I spent my childhood there with my grandparents, and had my earliest memories growing up.
Complete this sentence ‘The absolute best thing about volunteering is…’
….that the personal gratification is unmatched.