Amarjit Singh

Amarjit Singh
amarjit.singh@newham.gov.uk
020 8478 3469 or 07899 662 403

Amarjit has been a Councillor since 1978. He has always represented Manor Park ward where he lives with his family.

He has extensive management experience gained through his job as a project manager, through work in the local community, activity in the Labour Party and his Trade Union and through his committee work on Newham Council.  

Amarjit is a Sikh. He was the first Asian Councillor and the first Asian civic Mayor in Newham.  This has given him a practical insight into the importance of equal opportunities, and the qualities and determination needed to turn policy and good intentions into practice. Amarjit believes that equal opportunities are the ability to recognise people’s differences in order to provide them with the same opportunities.  

Amarjit is well versed with ensuring value for money through his job as a project manager, his political activities as a council committee chair and as a former chair of school governors.  

As a local resident he cares about the area where he lives in and the issues facing the people who live there. The issues that concern most people are Crime, Education, Social Services, Housing, Regeneration and the Environment. As a Labour councillor he will try to make a real difference on all the issues by working with our Labour Mayor and transforming the local community by unlocking the ideas and vision of people within it.