Mayor of Newham Rokhsana Fiaz OBE

I am proud to send my support to the British Kebab Awards and to all kebab businesses in Newham and nationwide.

Kebab businesses have brought much needed joy and comfort to us all this year, adapting quickly to feed us safely with takeaways. They have also been severely affected by the opening and closing cycles that have hurt all businesses. While we must stay at home, we are very lucky in Newham to be able to eat cuisine from all around the world from our takeaways.

Our COVID 19 Recovery and Reorientation Strategy states our intention to measure our success as a council by the health and wellbeing of our residents, and as part of this I look forward to working with our kebab businesses to ensure healthy food options are available across the borough.

Our kebab businesses in Newham are representative of all the borough has to offer – huge diversity, a global outlook and of course, excellence. I would like to publically thank them for the hard work and commitment they have shown this year.