Browsing Tag: Slough

THE town's first Sikh scout group is being launched this month. Starting out with a beavers group, the 13th Slough Sikh Scouts will be open to 30 children aged six to eight.

Being a Sikh within the British police force in the 1980s was no easy fate, as Sergeant Kashmira Mann discovered when he became the third turbaned officer to join the Metropolitan Police Service. The Slough man was one of the few ethnic minorities in the force at the time and as a result, bore the brunt of its racism.

Of the 31 applications for a Free School there are only two from Sikhs. The Slough Sikh Education Trust hopes to set up a free school with a Sikh ethos as a solution to the number of oversubscribed schools in the town.

Sikh police will have their own voice in the Thames Valley and in the UK.

The Slough Homeless Our Concern (SHOC) is a local charity which caters for the homeless community in Slough and allowed the Sikh Golf Society to take over for the day.