“At H&F Labour we’ve always strived to prove we’re different, by our deeds, not just words.
That’s how we’ve managed to save Charing Cross Hospital, cut council tax, provide unprecedented cost-of-living support to our residents, and pioneer our Pathway Bond offering young people new life chances in the industries of the future.
No matter what the challenges, H&F Labour will fight for you – always.”
Cllr Stephen Cowan, Leader of the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham
Jacolyn is Social Impact Lead for Hammersmith and Fulham Foodbank. She is a trustee for the local charity, Urban Partnership Group, and set up and ran a Covid-19 Mutual Aid Group for Addison and Brook Green. In 2020 Jacolyn founded a literacy catch-up programme, Wild Readers.
Ross has worked as a community organiser in his hometown of Aberdeen. He coordinated over 250 local aid groups and helped build a cooperative renewable energy project. Other work includes the International Campaign Against Child Slavery. When working in India he helped draft a bill taking thousands of children out of the steel industry and back into full-time education.
Laura is a solicitor. Her work has included the Howard League legal service for people under 21 in prison and Visiting Fellow at London South Bank University. 2019 Solicitor of the Year at the First 100 years’ Inspirational Women in Law Awards. Committee member of the Association of Prison Lawyers, Legal Aid Practitioners’ Group and Legal Action Group.
Stala is an architect with a passion for improving the quality of the environment. She has regularly volunteered for the Foodbank Doorsteppers as a leafleter and collector since its inception in March 2020. Her other community work includes Friends of Brook Green and she has volunteered regularly to support children reading in a local primary school.
Adam Peter is a former schoolteacher. He has wide experience of working in education including a doctoral research at University College London. His community work includes W12 Together, Friends of Brook Green, Friends of Wormwood Scrubs, and the Bush Theatre
Wesley has been a councillor representing College Park & Old Oak since 1994. He is the Borough’s Cabinet Member for the Environment and has led the fight against climate change. He has been a board member of the socially-responsible environmental organisation REGENESIS and a governor of primary and secondary schools.
Bora is a journalist and editor. She has been a councillor since 2018 and was the first councillor of Korean heritage elected in the UK. She is the Chief Whip on the Council, is a governor at a primary school and is on the Board of Directors of the Lyric Theatre.
Alex runs a national mental health and well-being charity. She has been a councillor for College Park & Old Oak ward since 2018. She is the Chair of the Wormwood Scrubs Charitable Trust Committee. Her work in the community includes being a governor of a primary school in the ward.
Lisa has been a councillor representing the area since 2006 and has been instrumental in stopping the Conservatives selling off and demolishing all the Borough’s council homes. She works for an MP.
Rowan is an economist. He has been a councillor since 2018. He is playing a key role in making the council more efficient. He has helped deliver record savings that have allowed H&F to provide free breakfast for all primary school children, be the only council in England to abolish home care charges and offer generous sanctuary to refugees.
Rory has been a councillor since 2006. He was part of the Borough’s health team that saved Charing Cross Hospital. His community work has included being a school governor of several primary and secondary schools and a board member of Groundwork West London. He works as a financial regulator.
Omid works for Andy Slaughter, the MP for Hammersmith, specialising in Home Office and immigration casework. His community involvement includes Avonmore & Brook Green Ward Action Group, Friends of Gwendwr Gardens, Friends of Brook Green and Avonmore Residents’ Association. He has a particular interest in inter-community cohesion.
Lucy has been a councillor since 2018. She chairs the Borough’s Health, Inclusion and Social Care Committee and is a member of the Health & Wellbeing Board. She is a trustee of Fair Shot Café, a project that aims to provide jobs for Disabled people.
Nikos currently works for the Labour Party. He also works for the Smile Brigade, supporting vulnerable residents and improving their mental health and wellbeing. Nikos is one of the founders and directors of Ready Tech Go, a community group that provides access to technology. He has volunteered at Bishop Creighton House and Age UK.
Stephen devised and ran the successful strategy to Save Charing Cross Hospital. He has represented the Grove area since 1998. He is the council leader. Amongst other things, he introduced an efficiency programme that’s saved record amounts. He used the proceeds to abolish home care charges, introduce free breakfast for all primary school children, and set up the largest crime fighting operation in the Borough’s history. He led the Borough’s response during the Pandemic.
Helen has been a councillor since 2019 and, in March 2022, was appointed as the Borough’s Flood Champion. She is the Chair of the council’s Finance Committee, upholding the principle of ruthless financial efficiency while continuing to invest in more frontline services. She is a governor at a primary school with a special needs unit and a school academy trustee. Helen works in an NHS-linked medtech startup, having previously managed an NHS hospital surgical service in women’s health.
Callum has a background in advocacy. He has represented Hammersmith Broadway since February 2025 and is a Trustee of the Lyric Theatre. He works for the Labour Party, having previously been a consultant in the non-profit and public sectors. As a private renter, he is passionate about building more genuinely affordable homes in Hammersmith and Fulham.
Sharon has been a councillor representing the area since 2014. She is the Borough’s Cabinet Member for Strategy and has been a school governor and worked on Fulham Community Partnership Trust, Sir William Powell Almshouses, Fulham Good Neighbours, Action on Disability, Fulham Broadway’s Safer Neighbourhood Team and its Business Improvement District Board.
Patrick has taught English as a foreign language, mainly to Chinese speaking students. As a young, gay and dyslexic person he wants to be in a position to affect positively people like him. He believes in an equitable society that looks after people, gives them dignity and the opportunity and chance to improve their lives.
Paul is an engineer working for a leading industry organisation. His community and charity work includes TRA Chair, a Road Safety Charity, a Fulham school governor, Fulham Churches Forum (Chair), H&F Homes, the North Fulham New Deal for Communities project and the H&F Community Safety Board.
Ashok is a solicitor. He has been President and Secretary of the West London Law Society. He is a committee member of the Labour Business and Green Policy Group and Labour Business. He has been a school governor and trustee of Paddington Law Centre and Hammersmith & Fulham Law Centre. He volunteered at Fulham Food Bank during the pandemic.
Ann led the campaign to build the new Sands End Arts and Community Centre which opened last year – she is now a trustee. She has been a councillor for Sands End since 2018 and is also a trustee of Lygon Almshouses and Powell Almshouses.
Zarar works in the welfare to work sector. He has been a councillor for North End ward since 2018. He has strong links with organisations such as the Irish Centre, Woman Care Foundation, Islamic Welfare Centre, Twinning Enterprise and the Iranian, Iraqi and Afghan Associations. He has been a primary school governor and trustee of Hammersmith and Fulham Volunteer Centre.
Mercy has been a councillor for Shepherds Bush Green ward since 2002. She has been Mayor and Deputy Mayor. She campaigned to save Shepherds Bush Market and has been involved in Growing in Faith (parish life and social action), and the many charities she sponsored as Mayor or Deputy Mayor, particularly the Hammersmith Hospital Lupus Clinic.
Genevieve has volunteered on two postnatal wards in Kingston Hospital. Her responsibilities included helping parents with their anxieties and emotions about the birth of their children. She has been a COVID-19 Relief Volunteer for The Smile Brigade, distributing free food parcels to households across Fulham.
Rebecca is the Borough’s Lead Member for Refugees and has led H&F to set up a compassionate support programme that is helping people escape danger from many places particularly Syria, Afghanistan, and Ukraine. She has been a councillor since 2018, helping residents with housing issues. She has 20 years’ experience providing advice about housing and welfare benefits.
Asif is a solicitor specialising in Immigration, Asylum, EU & Family Law, Wills & Probate and Housing. He provides an annual free Will writing month for senior citizens. Asif has been a councillor since 2018. He sits on the Borough’s Children & Education Policy & Accountability Committee, Licensing Committee and Planning & Development Control Committee. His community work includes Neighbourhood Watch, liaising with community police and volunteering with Covid-19 support groups.
Daryl has been a councillor for the area since 2010. She worked closely with Sally Taylor (the TRA chair and now fellow Labour candidate) to save the West Kensington and Gibbs Green estates from being demolished. She has been the Borough’s Mayor and Deputy Mayor. Her community work includes the Olympia and Earls Court Exhibition Trust.
Florian is originally from France and has worked in Germany for an SDP politician. He has a great interest in sustainable transport. He has worked with the RNIB, London Vision and Pocklington Lodge (accommodation on Goldhawk Road for the blind and partially sighted) and with Riverside House and Opening Doors London in support of elderly LGBTQ+ and HIV+ people.
After retiring Sally returned to nursing during Covid and is still nursing now. She is a West Kensington estate leaseholder and Chair of its TRA. She was one of the leaders of the successful campaign to save the West Kensington and Gibbs Green estates. Co-winner in 2022 of the Borough’s Civic Honour award for “Outstanding commitment to the community”. Mayoress in 2018.
Andrew is a Professor of Economic Geography and has been the Borough’s Cabinet Member for the Economy since 2014. He helped stop the Conservatives from selling off and demolishing all the Borough’s council homes. Now he is leading the biggest genuinely affordable council home building programme in decades and initiated the building of the new White City youth centre. He has represented the Shepherds Bush area since 2010.
Natalia has worked for over 18 years in the charity and voluntary sector. She had been a councillor for the area since 2014. She is a member of the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation. The focus of her work is welfare advice and Black, Asian, Latino and other communities.
Frances works for an international animal welfare organisation. She was elected as a councillor for White City at a by-election in September 2021. She has been Mayoress, a governor of a local primary school and a Commissioner on Hammersmith & Fulham’s Women’s Equality Board. She has volunteered for PATCH, the Borough’s Business Mentor and Support Network.
Max has been a councillor representing the Wormholt area since February 2013. He is the Borough’s Cabinet Member for Finance and Commercial Services. His community work has included being a governor of two schools.
Nicole was brought up in Shepherds Bush, studying at Burlington Danes and Hammersmith College. From 2017 to 2019 she worked for the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, Tom Watson. She is Chair of the Friends of Fulham Boys School, increasing inclusion among the diverse parents and carers of the boys. During the pandemic she delivered food parcels for WAND.