Lord Dholakia OBE DL
Navnit Dholakia was appointed Baron Dholakia of Waltham Brooks and introduced to the House of Lords on 29 October 1997.
Lord Dholakia was appointed as Deputy Lieutenant for the County of West Sussex in June 1999. He is the President of the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (NACRO) and chairs its Race Issues Advisory Committee. He is a Vice President of the Mental Health Foundation, Vice Chairman of the Policy Research Institute on Aging and Ethnicity and serves on the House of Lords Appointment Commission.
Lord Dholakia is a trustee of Pallant House Gallery in Chichester and the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum in Bristol.
Previously he has held appointments with the Commission for Racial Equality and the Police Complaints Authority.
He has served on the Council of Save the Children Fund and the Howard League of Penal Reform. He continues to serve on the Editorial Board of the Howard Journal.
Lord Dholakia was a member of the Ethnic Minority Advisory Committee of the Judicial Studies Board and served on Lord Carlisle’s Committee on Parole Systems Review. He served as a Magistrate and also as a member of the Board of Visitors for HM Prison Lewes.
He was elected President of the Liberal Democrats from 2000-2004. He was appointed Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords in December 2004.
Lord Dholakia has won a number of prominent awards including “Asian of the Year” in November 2000. He was awarded the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award by the Government of India in January 2003. In 2008 he was awarded the Melvin Jones Fellowship by Lions Clubs International Foundation.
Lord and Lady Dholakia have two daughters; Anjali who is a Lawyer and Alene who is a Doctor of Medicine.
ORGANISATIONS WITH WHICH LORD DHOLAKIA IS ASSOCIATED
| Patron: - 4 SIGHT (West Sussex Association for the Blind) AHISMA, for Quality of Life ARECA Concern Asian People with Disabilities Alliance Assam Association Ayurveda Institute of Europe Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (Institute of Art & Culture) British Asian Youth Cricket Trust British Diversity Awards Campaign for Learning City of London Black Police Association Community Drug Project Dame |Vera Lynn Trust Enjoy England Celebrate St Georges day 2008 Faith Matters. FEMAH Foundation for Ethnic Minorities Action for Health FOCUS ( Birmingham) Friendship Global Friends of ASRA, Greater London Housing Association Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group The Gandhi Foundation GIVE Foundation Hindu Forum of Britain Holocaust Educational Trust Hope for Children Horniman 2001 Indian Forum on British Media Indo Caribbean Sanatan Cultural Society Indian Jewish Association UK International Bangladesh Foundation International Committee for Commemorating the First Indian War of Independence (1857) International School for Information & Technology, Hyderabad, India JANUSZ, The World Trust Jeevika Trust (Village Livelihood in India) Kalai Kaviri ( Dance Group) Liberty Network Mid. Sussex Mediation Milton Keynes Hindu Association Community Centre Project National Institute for Research and Social Action (Hyderabad) Naz Foundation NRI Club International (Birmingham) Nrityakala (The Rhythm) School of Indian Dance Oldland Mill Trust Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies Pallant House Gallery, Chichester Pan Project PRESET Prisoners Abroad Punjabi Theatre Academy Purley Park Trust REMEMBER (Sussex) Royal Holloway Campaign for Resource Sanghol Project Sewa International Earthquake Appeal SIA, The National Development Agency for the Black Voluntary Sector Spitalfields Life Student Partnership World Wide Supreme Charitable Trust Friends of Tarabai Eye Hospital (Rajastan) Thare machi – Starfish Initiative The India International Foundation The Lodge Hill Centre – West Sussex UNA, International Year for the Culture of Peace (2000) Windsor Leadership Trust World Punjabi Organisation UK International Patron in Chief Able India Charities |
Vice Patron: - BASE (British Association for Service to the Elderly) Carousel ( Brighton) Impact 30th Anniversary Appeal (Brighton) Memorial Gates Project Multi Cultural Institute – Bolton National N.E. Centre The Truth Foundation for Mahatma Gandhi MK Snap ( Milton Keynes Special Advancement Project) Trustee: - Dr L M Singhvi Foundation Pallant House Gallery – Chichester The Apex Trust The British Empire and Commonwealth Museum (Bristol) The British Indian Golden Jubilee Fund The Ghandi Trust The Police Foundation The Shrimati Pushpa Wati Loomba Memorial Trust Associate: - RPS Rainer President:- Netjali Subhas Foundation Vice President:- Guild of British Asians India Deveopment Group UK Mental Health Foundation The Family Welfare Association International Council of Jurists Council Member: - Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain Indian Jewish Association UK The Caine Prize for African Writing The Howard League for Penal Reform Advisory Board:- Centre for Ethnic Minority Studies – Royal Holloway University of London Centre for Reform Human Rights Act Research Unit International Trade & Law Institute Community Security Trust CST Protecting the Jewish Community EISCA European Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism Management Board:- Policy Research Institute on Ageing & Ethnicity Governor:- Commonwealth Institute from 1998 - 2005 President:- Friends Circle International NACRO Chairman:- Race Issues Advisory Committee (NACRO) Special Advisor: - Wise Practice Commission Ambassador Girl Guiding Sussex Central Sponsor George Viner Memorial Fund Trust Champion ROKO Cancer Appeal (cancer screening in India) |
