Public and Commercial Services Union

The National Black Members Committee (NBMC) is a sub committee of the National Executive Committee (NEC). It advises the NEC on campaigns and issues relating to black members in PCS and wider society.

It meets three times a year and is tasked with carrying out the PCS Race Equality Strategy (RES), endorsed in 2011.

The secretary to the committee is Pav Alam - pav@pcs.org.uk, equality officer.

Read the National black members' committee newsletter

2012-13 committee

• Chair: Conrad Gayle Conrad.gayle@cps.gsi.gov.uk
• Vice chair: Newton Thompson newton.thompson-wynter@hmrc.gsi.gov.uk
• Newsletter editorial board: Mark Benjamin, Mohammed Shafiq and Newton Thompson 

Regional representatives

Regional representatives are elected by the registered black members in their region. If you wish to join your regional black members network complete the application form on the right hand side of this page

• Eastern - Kaniza Bibi kaniza.Bibi@ips.gsi.gov.uk
• London & South East - Mark Benjamin mark.benjamin@hmrc.gsi.gov.uk
• Midlands - Jawid Iqbal Jawid.Iqbal@highways.gsi.gov.uk
• North West - Mohammed Shafiq mohammed.shafiq@dwp.gsi.gov.uk
• Northern - Jai Murray jai.murray@hmrc.gsi.gov.uk
• Scotland - Halema Moghul halema.moghul@hmrc.gsi.gov.uk
• South West - Claudette Herbert claudetteh88@hotmail.com
• Wales - Mohammed Jabbar mohammed.jabar@hmrc.gsi.gov.uk
• Yorkshire & Humberside -  Jacqui King
jacqueline.king@hmrc.gsi.gov.uk

Group representatives

The following group representatives are elected or nominated by their group and will also sit on the group executive committee(GEC)

• Department of Work and Pensions - Bashir Chilwan bashir.chilwan@jobcentreplus.gsi.gov.uk
• Foreign and Commonwealth Office - Christopher Sattaur christopher.sattaur@fco.gov.uk
• Metropolitan Police - Damian Okonkwo okonkwo98@aol.com
• Hewlett Packard (EDS) - Derek Tuitt derek.tuitt@eds.com
• Land Registry  Derrick Christie derrickchristie@landregistry.gov.uk / Suraya Ghani suraya.ghani@landregistry.gsi.gov.uk
• National Offender Management System - Fari Taherinia fari.taherinia@hmps.gsi.gov.uk
• Government Equalities Office - Florence Davies florence.davies@geo.gsi.gov.uk
• Health and Safety Executive - Jacqui Olusemo jacqui.olusemo@hse.gsi.gov.uk
• Aviation Group  - Kiran Gill kiran.gill@nats.co.uk
• Equality and Human Rights Commission - Maurice Shaw maurice.shaw@equalityhumanrights.com
• Department for Transport - Neeru Chaudhari neeru.chaudhari@dvla.gsi.gov.uk
• Environment, Food, Rural Affairs - Niaz Faiz Niaz.faiz@efra.gsi.gov.uk
• Department for Education - Norma Jones norma.jones@education.gsi.gov.uk
• Home Office - Nur Alam   Nur.alam5@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk 
• Defence Sector - Joe Grant
• ACAS - Patrick Liburd pliburd@acas.org.uk
• PROUD - Pav Akhtar/Jeremy Bedford  pavakhtar@yahoo.com
• Business Innovation Skills - Sashwati Sengupta  Sashwati.sengupta@skillsfundingagency.bis.gov.uk
• Department of Health - Stella Gondo stella.gondo@dh.gsi.gov.uk
• Public Sector group - Steve Wilson Steve.wilson@oisc.gov.uk

NEC members on the NBMC

• Zita Holbourne NEC zita@pcs.org.uk
• Adam Khalif NEC   adamk@pcs.org.uk
• Hector Wesley NEC hector@pcs.org.uk