Résumé
CURRICULUM VITAE
Mr. AKBERKHAN MISRIKHAN SARGUROH

Life dates:

Born 2nd May 1923 Panhalje, India,

Died 27th February 2009 Hampstead,

Resident in Cricklewood, Brent NW2 for 52 years

MANAGEMENT PROFILE:
Managing director of a manufacturing company; community organisation work, local authority councillor

TECHNICAL PROFILE:
Bachelor Science in Chemistry ( Bombay University, Royal Institute of Science ) – BSc. Honours degree

EMPLOYMENT / VOCATIONAL WORK HISTORY (In Reverse Order)

LONDON BOROUGH OF BRENT, London HA0

1990-94 & 1998-2002

Job Role: Ward Councillor & Deputy Mayor
( 2001 / 2002 )

Committees: Education, Arts & Libraries, Social Services, Housing, Youth Services, Pensions committee, Pension Funds, Scrutiny Committee.
I proposed homework studies in libraries, Collective Surgeries & Clinics. I campaigned for nurses pay, and the reinstatement of community and sports centres. Additionally, I supported more children’s nurseries as well as concentrating on community needs in education, social welfare, youth arts and sports activities. I am an active member of the Brent & Harrow Co-operative Society. Brent council has representation on outside bodies such as the London Arts Board ( local authority forum ), Welsh Harp committee, Ealing Family Housing association, Metropolitan Police committee on which I was a representative member.

Kokni Muslim Welfare & Youth Organisation

1972 to Present

Trustee and Past Chairperson ( various periods )

I am a leading member of the above organisation which devotes itself to the Kokni community ( originally from the west coast of Maharashtra state in India – but with Diaspora world-wide including all the UK ) in terms of promoting the welfare of families in terms of housing, education, sporting, health, cross-cultural contacts as well as employment and all other matters in modern life. The organisation has its headquarters in Willesden, London N W 10 paid for by subscription from members, council grants, donations, and lottery funding. My management expertise has been used in many of the income and grant applications issues, as well ( at present ) in the general management of the centre ( e.g. rental, utilities, maintenance, and member database etc ). The membership numbers in thousands and I am deeply involved in co-ordinating the many activities of this association. I introduced the Art & Sports Festivals, Health Seminars, and integration between various communities:



Kokni Muslim Welfare & Youth Organisation

I instigated women’s committees, luncheon clubs, children’s activities, hospital visits, and generally was concerned with welfare of UK-based families. I helped in the association with other Asian and black women organisations. I am a life member of the Brent Indian Association, and an advisor to local community centres.


Gladstone Park Sports Club, London NW2

1996 to Present

Job Role: Chairperson


The above organisation is an affiliation of local junior schools, sports clubs, and community centres. It caters for local communities of Cricklewood, Dollis Hill and other council wards in the London NW2 areas, which have a mixed cultural background. The centre supports outdoor & indoor games, judo etc. within a 4 mile radius. Our management committee had an initial “encouragement” grant of £60,000 from the London Marathon charitable trust towards funding of changing rooms, toilet facilities etc. The Parks department of Brent Council has assigned £100,000 ( with support also from the lottery fund ) to Gladstone Park facilities that the centre uses. The project will be completed in April 2004.


Baking Equipment Ltd, London NW2
25, Sheldon Road ( now Sylvan Grove NW2 )
Industrial Estate,

1967 to 1992

Job Role: Owner and Managing Director

I founded my own bakery equipment company in London which has supplied large bakery groups such as Allied Bakeries, Lyons, Northern Foods, as well as numerous other smaller catering and confectionery companies throughout the UK. The company was solely managed by myself with up to 8 workers (at peak) producing new designs in Bakery Tinware, Stainless Steel products. The company also had a training scheme for young people in sheet metal work, offered free of charge (and without government aid). I retired from the business in 1992.


KLENZO Products Distributor,
Ossett, Yorkshire
( London Region base )

1953 to 1967

Job Role: General Manager

I undertook the distributorship for Klenzo degreaser products in the London & S.E.England regions for products mainly used for industrial cleaning purposes ( e.g. Bakeries, Transport Depots, cleaning contracts ). Using my chemical background I developed a non-caustic decarboniser for bakeries & motor engines, a product safe for white metals and aluminium etc., which resulted in industry –wide recognition and much kudos to myself and the company. This business provided the basis for the future Baking Equipment company that I founded later.





Lansil,( Manufacturer of Acetate Rayon )
Lancaster, Lancashire

1947 to 1950

Job Role: Research Chemist


I won the sponsorship of Sirsilk Hyderabad construction company in Nizam of Hyderabad (south) for foreign training and research into rayon products at Lansil Lancaster. I worked my way up through all plants to become chief chemist in the Rayon division controlling many technicians and projects as part of my duties. However, the scheme was abandoned 2 years after Indian independence.

From 1950 to 1953 it was a fallow period for me in which I searched in vain for similar research roles, eventually turning up in London. After some period of temporary & vocational work I took the distributor agency for Klenzo ( see above ).


Camp Dapoli Secondary School,
Dapoli, Maharashtra State,
India

1946 to 1947

Job Role: Science Schoolteacher

I left the civil supply job to help my uncle at Camp Dapoli where the first secondary muslim school was founded for the local 3 counties.

Government of India
Ministry of Supply
Anti –Hoading / Profiteering
Division.

1944 to 1946

Job Role: Civil Supply Inspector

My role involved the detection, prosecution of anti-hoading measures of the above ministry in conjunction with the police in the Bombay, Maharashtra region. After a certain period I was prosecuting my own cases in courts of law, while at the same time studying at a government law college.

Bombay University,
Royal Institute of Science,

1941 to 1944

role: Student

I studied for a B.Sc Honours in Chemistry / Physics at this prestigious university.

I helped to get the poor hindu and schedule ( untouchables ) students into muslim schools in the local villages in my home district. In general I helped the hindu and muslim students get scholarships and grants in Bombay.

AkberKhan Sarguroh - In Memoriam

Akber Khan Sarguroh
 Local Councillor and Community Organiser

Akber Khan Sarguroh, who has died aged 85, began his working life in the United Kingdom in 1947, as a sponsored research chemist at the Lansil Company in Lancaster. For the next fifty five years he was involved with local politics , community and charity work.

He was born in Panhalje, Maharashtra, India, the oldest son of a farmer, and was educated at the Royal Institute of Science (Bombay University) where he obtained a BSc in chemistry and physics.
As a young man in Bombay he was already active in social and community matters helping poor Hindus, Dalits (untouchables) and Muslims attain schooling in his home district.
On leaving Bombay University in 1944, Akber took up the role of a Civil Supply Inspector for the Indian Government, detecting and prosecuting those in contravention of the then Anti-Hoarding Measures. At this time he also undertook his own court cases, after studying at the Government Law College. He left this role in 1946 to become a Science School Teacher at the newly founded Muslim secondary school at Camp Dapoli in Maharashtra.
After Indian Independence, his sponsorship at Lansil, by the Sirsilk Hyderabad Construction Company, was eventually curtailed in 1950. For the next three years similar work was hard to come by for this young Asian man.

Akber became the South East England distributor for a Yorkshire based chemical firm in 1953, at which he developed a non caustic decarboniser for bakeries and motor engines. He used this experience to set up his own Baking Equipment business in North West London which he ran from 1967 until 1992.
By the mid-1960s he had become active in the Labour party, supporting both local and government elections of various candidates in Brent. A little later he was involved in the foundation of the Kokni Muslim Welfare & Youth Organisation, which aided and represented peoples from his region in India, who had newly settled in the U.K.
He was elected as a Brent councillor in the periods of 1990-94, and 1998-2002, participating in numerous Council Committees; culminating in being elected as Deputy Mayor of Brent in the latter period.

After retirement in 1992, Akber spent his time assisting Brent Council, the Indian association, and Muslim organisations; in addition to being involved with local community concerns such as the Ealing Family Housing Association , the Metropolitan Police Committee, the Gladstone Park Sports Club and Anson Primary School, where he was a Governor.
Akber was proud to be associated with many different communities, whatever their origins, and was zealous in his support of the underprivileged and worse-off. His impact and influence in the local community was reflected by a very large attendance at his Funeral at the West Hendon Mosque. He will be greatly missed by people from all parts of the local communities in Brent and beyond.

In January Akber had a TIA stroke, from which he seemed to recover well. By mid February he had a relapse, and after a short illness, passed away at the Royal Free Hospital.
Akber Khan Sarguroh , politician and community organiser, born 2 May 1923; died 27 February 2009.He is survived by his two sons, Andrew and Haroon, and former wife, Jutta.