Dr. Abbey Akinoshun Received EPRA, Leadership and Entrepreneurial Award (Outstanding Charity Champion of the Year 2018) presented by Her Royal Highness Queen Theodora Oyebade and Chief Ayodapo Oyebade.
Dr Abbey Akinoshun taught himself Employment Law at home, having suffered racial discrimination at work; he took it upon himself to challenge the inequalities in our society. His experience profoundly affected him to the extent that he single-handedly founded a self-funding organisation called “Voluntary Employment Advisory Services for Ethnic Minorities [VEASEM] which offered free advice to people who faced disciplinary hearing, racial discrimination, bullying, victimisation and harassment at work in the early 90s.
Since 1996 Abbey has been representing hundreds of black workers who have no financial means of hiring lawyers to represent them at the Employment tribunals and disciplinary hearings. He is motivated to fight for justice for other people, having gone through the same experience himself.
People were so touched with his community activities, that in 1999, he was presented with an award, by the then Deputy Commissioner of Police – Commander John Grieve, on behalf of the Metropolitan Police London, for his sole efforts in fighting discrimination in the workplace. In 2000, he was given “Our Heroes Community Champion Award” by the South London Press, for his voluntary work to fight injustice and harassment in the workplace. He was also one of the 100 recipients of the Nigerian Centenary Awards UK 2014. Abbey was also featured in the first black who’s who book of black achievers published in 1999 due to his fight for justice and equality.
Abbey had previously worked for the National Health Service [NHS] Trusts for over 14 years at a managerial level in four different NHS Foundation Trusts within London. His last job in the NHS was a Clinical Service Manager. He is a leader and has been a mentor to a number of BME nurses and midwives. He has a track record of supporting and developing the junior nurses and midwives to attain their potentials. He is a role model
In 2006 Abbey got to the peak of his nursing career when he became the first and only Black African nurse to be elected by the majority of over 200,000 of the registered nurses in England, to represent them in the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC – the world’s largest regulatory body). He used his position to influence major changes in the nursing profession and to improve the quality of care to the wider public.
He served for nearly 10 years as a School Governor of Hawksmoor primary school in Thamesmead. In 2011, Abbey resigned from his managerial post in the NHS in order to concentrate on his Consultancy and Advocacy business. [ERRAS – Employment Rights Representation and Advisory Services].
He has since been consulting in Employment Law and Regulatory Services on a full time basis in Woolwich supporting and representing the Black and Minority Ethnic [BME] nurses and midwives at various disciplinary and NMC hearings all over the UK. He is the CEO of ERRAS. He has the passion and commitment to serve his community. His experience in life has given him the foundation and knowledge to serve the BME community.
In June 2015, Doctor of Humanities was conferred on him by Victoria Global University for his selfless service to humanity and his consistent efforts to challenge the inequalities in the UK. In October 2015, he was given a philanthropist and life changer of the year award by Gracious Health Foundation. On the 31st October 2015, he was bestowed with a BEFFTA Special Award for his outstanding contribution to the society.
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