Bio

A driven, entrepreneurial, and innovative senior managing consultant with 10+ years experience. Successfully initiated, managed, and delivered numerous global end-to-end programmes across top 10 investment banks and FinTech clients including process improvement, finance transformation, strategy, change management, innovation, and cultural change programmes. Also, specialises in advising start-up firms with a focus on building lean processes and establishing a culture that drives innovation.

Yusuf previously worked at Accenture and Ernst & Young (EY) across audit, tax & corporate finance (M&A). He also worked at BlackRock – the largest asset management company in the world.

Yusuf is a Chartered Accountant, currently on the Members’ Board at the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS) and was awarded the prestigious ‘Top 100 Young CA’ award in 2018.

He obtained a 1st class degree in Accounting & Financial Management from University of Surrey with a GPA of ~79%.

Yusuf is well known for his lectures, workshops, and courses within the Cypriot community focused on promoting peace, compassion, and love. He also recently co-presented ‘Thinking Cypriots’ with Aysen Djemal at Euro Genc TV – a platform which discussed important community issues including wellbeing, education and identity.

Statement

What I love about Cyprus is our history, our values, and our virtues. Being Turkish Cypriot is not necessarily about waiving a massive flag, firing up the barbeque at every opportunity or insisting your future is at the bottom of a coffee cup. For me, being Turkish Cypriot is something much deeper than that… It is about helping others in need, purifying our hearts, standing up for what is right (even if it is against us) and working hard towards the betterment of society.

Despite the several political administrations of Cyprus throughout history, we as a people have demonstrated our adaptability and versatility having lived alongside other Turks, Greeks, Armenians, Muslims, Christians, Maronites and others for centuries. When our grandparents / parents courageously migrated to Britain, they proactively integrated with society, adopting a new language, new skills and embracing new cultural customs. They worked hard to give us the opportunities they never had, whilst holding on firmly to our philosophy of life and principles. As a result, we are still able to appreciate our rich cultural heritage that continues to be deeply embedded within our community, our music, our festivals and even our food.

As a third generation Turkish Cypriot born in the UK, I want to continue in the footsteps of our ancestors and be part of the change I’d like to see in our community, whilst holding on to these beautiful values we all hold dear to us. I am passionate about helping others, regardless of their faith, ethnicity, or gender, and I believe when we put aside our differences, we can achieve great things together as one. TCCA is at the heart of the community and I sincerely feel that I can leverage my skills and experience to help improve the organisation and ultimately the lives of others as well as the wider society in which we reside.

Benim adım Erdoğan Baca, yıllardır gençler için çalışmaktayım. Ayrıca, kültürler çalışmaların içerisindeyim örnek olarak Tiyatro ve Müzik. Kıbrıs Dörtlüsünün Solistiyim ve Yeni Boğaziçi Kültür ve Sanat Derneğin yönetim kurulundayım.

1981 yıllında beri Yeni Boğaziçi Spor kulübü olarak Türk Toplumu Futbol Federasyonun içerisindeyim.

Gerek genç alt yapılarına gerek veteran takımların kurulmasında yardımcı oldum. Bizilerin sayesinde genç çocuklarımız yarı profesyonel seviyesine kadar ulaştılar.

Toplum Merkezine girmemin sebebi çalışmalarımı genişletip, kurumumuza katkı sağlamak istiyorum. Covid-19 bizleri bizi durdurmadı, yine katkı veriyorum burdaki yapılan faaliyetlere.

Varım, hazırım, seçilirsem hizmete devam diyorum. Teşekkür ederim.

About Me

My name is Munevver Borova, I was born in Lefkosa Cyprus, where following my studies I became a Teacher and then moved into the field of Social Care, where I taught adults with special needs, promoting independence, and working in various projects specifically covering Autism and Down Syndrome. My work within Special Needs lasted 13 years. However, following a serious work-based accident left me wheelchair bound.

Following my accident rather than sitting back, I become extremely committed to supporting those most vulnerable in our society, the Homeless, the destitute, and those in need. I began to cook for the homeless wanting to provide food, care, and shelter for those who society pushed aside. In 2018 I formed a not-for-profit organisation called CATI-Roof, with the target to help the homeless by providing food, sourcing essentials, and helping with street tents. By 2019 with a small team, daily I was reaching out homeless people in Westminster, Charing Cross, London Bridge, and the surrounding areas, and my work was recognised by receiving a nomination under the Turkish Cypriot Community Awards, for female community achiever of the year and charity of the year.

By 2020 with the backdrop of the Covid-19 with partner organisations I spearheaded a movement that now during Covid-19 is providing homeless around 300 meals a week, as an example of my commitment to charitable events, over the Christmas period we provided over 270 Christmas Gift with Christmas card and Christmas meals, ensuring that no one goes without.

Why I wish to be a Trustee

TCCA is an amazing organisation, that delivers many essential projects, the organisation literally saves lives and provides the most vulnerable in our community with hope. The charity leads a host of platforms that in turn recognise achievement, including the Turkish Cypriot Cultural and Arts Festival and the Turkish Cypriot Community Awards. Over the past five years I have volunteered my time to the projects that support the most in need helping with the TCCA 2018-2019-2020 Homelessness initiatives, last year I joined the TCCA Covid 19 Initiative and have helped with the distribution of food.

I want to join the board as I feel that my skill set, and my passion will allow me to enhance the already amazing group of individuals leading TCCA. I feel that due to being wheelchair bound I can help develop initiatives that support the drive to help those who have physical limitations. I am based in South London and feel that I can help further expand our geographical remit in South London.

I also want to utilise my skills as a highly qualified Teacher, to provide expertise for the development of projects that support mental Health and neurological disorder.

Signed
Munever Borova

Hakkımda

Benim adım Münevver Borova, Lefkoşa Kıbrıs'ta doğdum. Eğitimimden sonra öğretmen oldum ve daha sonra özel ihtiyaçları olan yetişkinlere ders verdiğim, bağımsızlığı teşvik ettiğim ve özellikle Otizmi ve Down Sendromunu kapsayan çeşitli projelerde çalıştığım Sosyal Bakım alanına geçtim. Özel ihtiyaç desteği kapsamındaki işim 13 yıl sürdü. Ancak yaşadığım ciddi bir iş kazası beni tekerlekli sandalyeye mahkum etti.

Kazamın ardından oturmaktansa, toplumumuzdaki en savunmasız olanları, evsizleri, yoksulları ve muhtaç olanları desteklemeye son derece kararlı hale geldim. Evsizlere yemek pişirmeye başladım, lakin toplumun dışladığı evsizlere yiyecek, bakım ve barınak sağlamak isterdim. 2018 yılında, yiyecek sağlayarak, temel ihtiyaç malzemeleri tedarik ederek ve sokak çadırlarına yardım ederek evsizlere yardım etmeyi hedefleyen ÇATI-Roof adında kar amacı gütmeyen bir vakıf kurdum. 2019'a kadar küçük bir ekiple, günlük Westminster, Charing Cross, London Bridge ve çevresindeki evsizlere ulaşıyordum. Çalışmalarım, Kıbrıs Türk Toplumu Ödülleri kapsamında, kadın toplumu başarısı için aday gösterilerek tanındı ve yılın vakfı adayı olarak seçildi. 2020'de Covid-19 varken, ortak kuruluşlarla birlikte, benim öncülüğümle harekete geçtik. Evsizlere, aşağı yukarı haftada 300 öğün yemek veriyoruz. Üstlendiğim bu hayır işlerinin örneği olarak Noel döneminde 270 Noel hediyesi, Noel kartları ve Noel yemekleri verdiğimi söyleye biliriz. Böylece kimsenin eksik kalmamasını sağladık.

Neden yönetim üyesi (trustee) olmak istiyorum.

TCCA, birçok temel projeyi hayata geçiren harika bir organizasyondur. Organizasyon tam anlamıyla hayat kurtarır ve topluluğumuzdaki en savunmasızlara umut verir. Yardım kuruluşu, Kıbrıs Türk Kültür ve Sanat Festivali ve Kıbrıs Türk Toplumu Ödülleri de dahil olmak üzere, başarıyı takdir eden bir dizi platforma liderlik ediyor. Son beş yılda Evsizlik girişimlerine yardım ederek en çok ihtiyacı olanları destekledim ve TCCA'nin 2018-2019-2020'de projelerine gönüllü olarak katıldım. Geçen sene TCCA'nin Covid-19 girişimi'de gıda dağıtımına yardımcı oldum. Sizlere katılmak istiyorum çünkü eminim ki benim yeteneğim ve tutkum sizin TCCA'deki fevkalade grubunuzu daha fazla güçlendirebilir. Tekerlekli sandalyeye bağlı olduğum için fiziksel kısıtlamaları olanlara yardım etme isteğini destekleyen girişimler geliştirmeye yardımcı olabileceğimi hissediyorum. Güney Londra'da yaşıyorum ve Güney Londra'daki sorumluluk alanımızı daha da genişletmeye yardımcı olabileceğimi düşünüyorum. Ayrıca, ruh sağlığını ve nörolojik bozukluğunu destekleyen projelerin geliştirilmesinde uzmanlık sağlamak için yüksek nitelikli bir öğretmen olarak becerilerimi kullanmak istiyorum.

İmza,
Münevver Borova

Bayram Cubuk: is the Youth Committee Chairman for the Turkish Youths of London Community Centre (Southgate) and currently is Chair of the Alashiya Youth Platform (Steering Group), who are the youth partners of TCCA.

In the past 10 years, Bayram has coached over 800 young people in football, both girls and boys. He is also the club Director and Head of the Youth Team for Yeni Boğaziçi Londra football club, as well as the Head Scout for Beşiktaş London Football Academy. He was also a key committee member of Turkish Cypriot Youth Group in its early years.

​Bayram is dedicated to sport and takes pride in his roles within his village, Yeni Boğaziçi. He is an enthusiastic individual and his involvement in the newly created group, Turkish Youths of London confirms his passion for the Cypriot Youth awareness.

In 2020 with the milieu of Covid-19, Bayram took on the mantle to help his community and in March become one of the first volunteers to put himself forward to help the Covid 19 Support Initiative, and now heads the vetting and delivery services offered by TCCA. In June 2020, Bayram joined the Turkish Cypriot Cultural and Arts Festival as a trustee and as such helped deliver an amazingly successful two-day festival, that had over 50000 views via its various online platforms. He has also helped spearhead many other initiatives, that have supported the community during these sad times, such as vocally supporting challenges faced by our youth.

Pre-covid Bayram provided a helping hand to many family members, groups and charities. This includes supporting Kibris Dortlusu music group, volunteering to help visitors from Kibris Football Federation when they visit the UK, taking part in trips to Cyprus with the mixed youth team, visiting Dignitaries in UK and Cyprus to discuss new projects for 2021 with Oya Tuncali (TRNC representative).

Bayram is extremely passionate about football and helping the youth within our communities to flourish and become role models for future generation. His strong relationship with TCCA, and its project provide strong foundations for his nomination to become the youngest member of the Board of Trustees, which historically has been biased towards older members of our community.

Biography:

I am a Management Executive that has years of organisational skills that have been developed with working closely with board of directors, within banks such as HSBC and Barclays Wealth Management. I am recognised for my professional demeanour, punctuality, and high level of motivation, integrity, self-confidence, and the ability to take initiative.

I am culturally aware and am able to manage teams that challenge barriers to accessibility. Within the charity sector, I have over 20 years helping develop and support charities mainly focused on Education, Women’s Empowerment, and the Homeless.

I believe in ongoing self-development and am currently in my final year of IMC – Investment Management Certificate and a Certificate in Company Secretarial and Share Registration Practice. More recently I have been supporting include CATI, Haven for the Homeless, Buses for the Homeless and Turkish Cypriot Community Association Homeless Project.

• I am current Chair of the Turkish Football Federation Women’s Association, a group I initiated and lead.
• I am currently the chair of the PTA of Bowes SG School.
• I am a co-founding member of the Turkish Cypriot Covid-19 Support Initiative, a project that has helped over 500 Turkish Cypriot vulnerable elderly and disabled in our community.

Personal Statement:

I believe that Turkish Cypriot Community Association is beacon charity that has laid the foundations of many projects that support the most vulnerable within our community. It has been instrumental in challenging prejudices and supporting those who experience barriers within their lives.

I have been amazed by the work completed by the organisation and have seen how much progress has occurred within the past two years. I am particularly proud that during the time that I have volunteered at the Turkish Cypriot Community Association, that our hard work has been recognised by many institutions such as SHE Awards (awards for women by women), Haringey Council Hero Awards and as part of the Covid-19 team, receiving the Impact Award.

As a young proud Turkish Cypriot female mother, if elected, I want to work with my co-trustees to:

• Support the development of projects that encourage the use of the centre, for example projects that help women who suffer from domestic violence.
• Further develop Turkish Cypriot Community Association volunteer database, which I have been supporting by leading the Volunteer recruitment for our covid-19 project.
• Bring to the Trustee forum, the idea of a women’s subgroup, as well as other subgroups that deal with marginalised segments of our community.
• Resolve to develop fundraising ideas that can touch the lives, our elderly. Including supporting the creation project specific donations that are targeted towards needy in the community.

Bio

I was born in Nicosia in 1958 and arrived in London in 1976.

I have a Masters degree in History from the University of London. Currently, I am working towards a PGCHE and PhD qualifications. I am a medieval history advisor to the Museums and Antiquities Dept. in Nicosia. In 2019, I helped to open the Lusignan House and The Tombstone Museums in Nicosia.

I always worked in the City in high management. In my 35-year career, I managed and set-up companies in the international financial sector. I am a founder of ADA Capital Markets, the first Turkish Cypriot owned global Forex and Commodities Broker in London. My specific skills are opening new areas of opportunity and management. I am regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCI).

I am a Chair of Turkish Cypriots for the Labour Party and on the board of CTP-UK.

I have been living in Harringey since 1986.

A Personal Statement

TCCA is a vital service provider to Turkish speaking Cypriots. It is further one of the oldest of such essential service providers to our community. In line with our founders’ intention, the Association reaches out to the needy.

As someone who has spent a lifetime setting up commercial opportunities, business negotiations, and successfully running companies, I feel there are many areas I can help TCCA. Such as;

• We failed to generate adequate funds for our projects from the Turkish Cypriot Community. I will therefore seek to raise additional funds from our community at large
• Our community’s needy elders need to be transported to health practitioners, shopping, to TCCA for meeting other members, etc. It is incumbent on the TCCA to help them. I can assist in acquiring or allocate funding for such community-wide assistance by acquiring a minibüs.
• Covid-19 has decimated our community. Although the TCCA provided and continues to provide food parcels to the needy, I believe that we have only reached a small fraction of the community’s needy. As a community association, our reach into the community is limited, as we can see from our membership numbers. I propose installing a membership drive by creating a Turkish Cypriots database and then contacting each household to introduce our presence and services. Only through such knowledge we can be genuinely community-centric and not reactive in crises.
• Covid-19 has highlighted another of our community’s shortcomings; chronic illnesses. I propose that TCCA installs a medical adviser, albeit initially on a part-time basis, to educate our community in Diabetes, Hypertension, and Cholesterol.
• It is essential to attract younger Turkish Cypriots. If elected, I will champion several community-based courses for young people, including language, sciences, TC cuisine, and arts.
• If elected, I shall carry out an organization-based audit to maximise resources and streamline our cost base. Our focus should be “Client-centric.”
• TCCA should actively organise forums to discuss specific community-wide issues such as immigration, housing, work, and legal. Current efforts are inadequate.
• The TCCA’s web site and social media pages are all in English. Forthwith, these will also be in Turkish.
• As a trustee, I will encourage performance achievement goals from the management. Only through this way would the administration be assertive.

Tcca seçimlerde aday olma nedenim

1940 yıllardan beri Ingiltereye göç eden Kıbrıs Türk toplumunun .1976 yılından beri hizmetinde olan .Tcca nin 25 Şubatta yapılacak seçimlerde aday oldum.Bugün geldigmiz aşamada Kibristan daha fazla Ingilterede Kıbrıslı Turk yaşar..Buda burda yaşayan Kıbrıslıların sosyal kültürel ekonomik olarak bir çok sorunları olustu..Burda yaşayan toplumuzun.Oncelikle Kibrisla baglarnin koparmasıdır onun için ortaya konulacak projelere katkı koymak.Burda doğan yaşayan gelecek nesillerin Kibrisla olan sosyal kültürel bağlarının geliştirilmesine gelenek goreneklermizin unutulmaması icin yapılacak projelere katkı koymak.Burda yaşayan yaslilarmiza daha iyi hizmet götürmek için uygulanan projelere katkı koymak.Ornegin Yaşlılara daha iyi hizmet vermek İçin.Toplumuzun burdaki bağlarını dahada güçlendirecek sosyal kültürel projelere katkı koymak.

Bio

I Gokhan Murad am I London Born Turkish Cypriot who myself have had the pleasure of working for the Turkish Cypriot Community Association in the past my current role in Eurostar Engineering Centre Temple Mills (EECTM is a Contract Manager and Facilities Manager for Eurostar.

The key contracts I manage are, cleaning - including waste management, water treatment including trade effluent, firefighting equipment including fire alarm systems and aspiration detection systems ADS. Canteen & Vending services plus more. Heavily involved in tendering processes, contract reviews, contract performance reviews and contract health checks, overseeing the PPE/workwear contract with service provider. Managing & planning maintenance of all equipment from hand-held radios to overhead cranes.

I am a safety rep and I participate in safety tours with our Health and Safety team bi-weekly.I work very close with our environmental team to ensure our waste streams are in compliance with the local authority.

Our depot measures 2.5km in length and runs through 3 boroughs. We have a good relationship with local authorities and raise any concerns. Every inch of the depot from vegetation, litter picking, trespassers, electrical faults, mechanical faults plus more fall into my remit.

As a team, we manage a £20 million budget and we oversee the complete infrastructure + Facilities Management within the site. We work closely with the DFT (department of Transport) as the site is a Restricted zone (RZ).

EECTM is a 24/7 working depot with a 400+ workforce and we also manage the Facilities Management inbox for the depot. Only a handful of colleagues including myself are first point of call for any major incidents in relation to security, health and safety, infrastructure, and Facilities Management.

I have also worked in other establishments such as CROSSRAIL, London, The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG), Phoenix Group, Servite Facilities Management, The Round Chapel Old School and TCCA.

Statement

As an ex-employee and continuing supporter of the organisation if I am given the honour of joining the management committee.

I shall support the committee and all staff members who I believe has done an amazing job All these years with all my expertise and knowledge I have gained over the years working for large professional international organisations through health and safety management and other areas of growth including youth and child services.

I am also very passionate about the care services provided as I have myself received care in the past and my loved ones currently do therefore am able to offer the service users objective when planning and looking at care matters.

Uzun yıllardan beri Londrada faliyetler gösteren ve toplumumuzu kucaklayan Kıbrıs Türk Toplum Merkezi'nin yönetimine katılmayı istememin en önemli nedeni benim de toplumumuza önemli hizmetler vermekte olduğunu yakınen bildiğim bu oluşumun faliyetlerine katkı koymadır. Örgütlü ve kordineli çalışmaların gönüllülük ilkesi ile güzelliğine ve başarısına inanıyorum. Londra'da yaşayan toplumumuzu ve sorunlarımızı da bildiğime inanmaktaydım. Zamanımın ve durumumun verilecek görevler için uygun olduğumu da belirtirtmek isterim.

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