Sikh Education Forum

Meet the Team

SEF envisions that members of the Sikh community will be in a better position to enjoy equal parity in areas such as cultural, economic and social development.
Mr Sarwan Ghatoura

Mr Sarwan Ghatoura

Chair of the Sikh Education Forum

Sarwan Singh Ghatoura- Migrated to the UK in the 1970s, a science graduate from Punjab University, initially worked as a Social Worker and later moved into a Career in Financial Services. He has served as a board member of various business organisations such as the Chamber of Commerce, and Institute of Asian Businesses, and a founding member of the Asian Business Club (ABC) in the Black Country and was later elected as Chairperson of ABC.  Mr Ghatoura has worked in Financial Services since the 1980s and has a wealth of experience and qualified with the Chartered Institute of Insurance and a member of the Personal Finance Society. Presently he is very active in Estate Planning.  He is a member of the SEF executive and has served as a chairperson during 2016- 2018.
He is the current Chair of SEF.

Mr Onkar Singh

Mr Onkar Singh

Vice Chair of the Sikh Education Forum

Born and bred in Punjab, India during mid 70’s, Onkar Singh attained higher education from DAV college, Jallandhar achieving Master’s degree in Punjabi language literature and Civil Engineering. Having taught for over 5 years, he is an accomplished lecturer in teaching Punjabi at the Janta College Kartarpur as well as DAV College in Jallandhar. Having read varied
literary works in both Punjabi and Hindi he takes a keen interest in undertaking critical analysis of various genres and styles in literary works. Furthermore, Onkar Singh is a director of Rootz Global CIC, a company that he founded during the time of COVID 19 pandemic in April 2021. Since its formation, he brought together people under one roof of 3 Punjabs that is East, West and Punjabi diaspora. His commitment in creating shared platforms to help harmonise relationships is exemplary. The Literary personality has played a crucial role in Punjabi Sath and
European Punjabi Sath formed over 20 years ago. He has travelled around a
number of different countries in helping distribute literary works, whilst promoting Punjab, Punjabi and Punjabiat on ‘Virse de Waris’ programme on the Akal Channel. His other interests include public speaking, psychology, and writing.

Mrs Harminder Kaur Bhogal

Mrs Harminder Kaur Bhogal

Secretary of the Sikh Education Forum

Harminder Kaur Bhogal ( MA) is the current Social Secretary of the Sikh Education Forum (SEF) organisation. She has played a vital role within SEF as Chair in the previous years, 2010 and 2015, respectively. Mrs Bhogal has vast experience of working in the public and voluntary sector as a Project Manager.

Always conscious of team building parameters, she converts challenges into worthwhile opportunities and projects.  Mrs Bhogal is driven by her Sikh faith ethos that is further underpinned by a mission of seeing through projects, from start to finish.    She believes that whilst ‘we possibly can’t fight all fights’, every person can do their little bit to make society a better place to live in.  She is inspired by the action-oriented philosophy of the Sikh Gurus that brings people of all nations together as ‘one race’.  Mrs Bhogal’s idol is Dr B.R. Ambedkar who raised the ‘Educate, Agitate and Organise’ slogan.

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PREVIOUS CHAIRPERSONS

2002 – 2005   Santokh S Saran
2005 – 2007   Surinder K Saund
2007 – 2009   Reshma Shergill
2009 – 2010   Satinder K Taunque
2010 – 2011    Harminder K Bhogal
2011 – 2013    Gurjeet Bains
2014 – 2015   Santokh S Saran
2015 – 2016    Harminder K Bhogal
2016 – 2018    Sarwan S Ghatoura
2018 – 2020  Jaspal Virdee
2020 – 2022  Sharanjit K Dhesi
2023 –            Sarwan S Ghatoura