About Us
Middlesbrough Mela is celebrating its 21st year in 2011.
The event started in the town centre in 1991 and soon outgrew the venue and made a very positive move to Albert Park, right in the heart of the BEM community. The park has been the recipient of Heritage Lottery funding to restore it to its former glory and the event benefits from the spectacular back drop.
We regularly get up to 30,000 visitors and even in the last few years with torrential rain the event attracted 27,000 people. Middlesbrough Mela is notoriously a completely trouble free event. The event runs from 12 noon until 7 pm. The audiences are growing year on year.
How is Boromela Organised?
The event is organised by Middlesbrough Council in conjunction with the Middlesbrough Mela Steering Group, made up of members of the local community.
The Mela Management Committee gratefully acknowledges the generous support from Middlesbrough Council Culture and Tourism and Sports Development Departments, Northern Rock Foundation, British Heart Foundation, Cleveland Police, Healthy Towns, , our media partners the Evening Gazette and TFM, plus all the advertisers in this brochure and on the big screen.
Thanks also to the members of the Middlesbrough Mela Management Committee below and to the Albert Park team, for their contribution and invaluable support to the organisation of the event.
General Members
• Satnam Singh (Chair)
• Naweed Hussain (Vice Chair)
• Kash Patel (Treasure & Main Stage Programmer)
• Shaman Biswas
• Zaffar Uddin
• Shelly Uddin
• Steve Thompson (Mela Media Co-ordinator)
• Umar Akhtar
Co-opted members
• Diane Harker (Sports Mela Co-ordinator)
• Bob Eastwood
• Shahda Khan
Young Members
• Tom Robinson (Secretary)
• Arina Begum
Council Representatives
• Judith Croft (Middlesbrough Council Festivals & Events Manager)
• Rob Guest (Middlesbrough Council Festivals and Events Officer)
Advisors
• Philip Basi
• Shamin Ali
Bob The Teeth on the Location
Bob talks about the move to Albert Park
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