In this week's column, Yuan Yang, the Labour MP for Earley and Woodley, tells neighbours what she's been up to, which has involved interceding for them and attending community events. Yuan writes:

In many ways, the general election feels like it happened a lifetime ago, because so much of my life has changed. But in fact, it was only three months ago. As I near the end of my first hundred days as the new MP for Earley and Woodley constituency, I'm looking back over what my team and I have done so far, and what we have left to do.

The biggest task, of course, is setting up the constituency and parliamentary offices. You might not realise that MPs each, in effect, run their own small business. Most employ a team of 5-6 members of staff, which means most of my colleagues spent the summer after the election interviewing and hiring staff. Any manager knows that this takes time to do well!

I've been lucky to find a team of wonderful staff who have experience in various walks of life, such as the charity sector, housing, psychotherapy, and teaching. I'm now proud to say we have our local team of staff almost entirely in place – one last hire is yet to finish their notice period – which means we can respond to more residents more quickly than before.

So far, we have sent out over 1,200 emails in response to residents writing in about anything ranging from casework to policy. While some pieces of casework are straightforward, involving us calling up a government department on the resident's behalf, others may take many months to resolve. It might sound counterintuitive, but I hope over the course of my term we'll get more emails from residents. I know right now that those in need might not feel able to reach us, because of lack of awareness of how MPs' offices can help.

Casework successes that my team and I are particularly proud of include uniting a constituent with her mother, who lives abroad, in time for the mother to go through surgery – this involved our chasing up the Home Office. We've also been able to support constituents by drawing the Department of Work and Pensions' attention to problems in people's records, in some cases getting official admissions of mistakes. These are just some examples of hundreds of residents that we've spoken to. I would urge you to tell those around you who are in need of support to get in touch with us at yuan.yang.mp@parliament.uk or on 0118 324 0847.

My team of volunteers and I have been out doorknocking every weekend since the general election, and I'm glad we made the most of the summer weather in doing so. This Saturday (5th October) I'll be holding my second regular surgery, in Shinfield (sign up here for full details). At my first surgery, we welcomed about 20 residents over two hours to the Whitley Community Cafe on Northumberland Road, and I hope we'll continue to get good turnout for future surgeries.

I've attended around two dozen community celebrations and events, and I always enjoy meeting the huge range of people I see at these! Some of them involve talking business and policy, such as at the Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce's annual conference, or meeting with Brookside Surgery's GPs to talk about how to improve community healthcare. But many of them are simply about celebrating big occasions with our local communities, such as at Wokingham Pride, Reading Pride, the Wokingham Volunteer Centre's 50th anniversary, and the Pakistani Community Centre's annual Independence Day festival.

Music and dancing feature too: I've danced among 500 members of the Hindu community at a religious festival, watched amazing performances at the Reading Ex-British Gurkha Association's Dashain celebration, and listened to the talented young musicians of the Sikh Gurdwara on London Road play at the centre's new opening. There's also art: I recently attended the unveiling of a wonderful community-stitched patchwork at St Nicolas Church in Earley (which I recommend you visit).

In Parliament, I've made two speeches – including my maiden speech, in which I introduce myself and our new constituency – as well as successfully gotten through the internal ballot to ask two oral questions.

Over the months to come, I'm looking forward to much more to come in the constituency and in Parliament, particularly in getting around all of our primary schools to spread the news of what MPs do at assemblies, and of course to the launch of free school breakfast clubs across the country.

As always, do get in touch – and keep up to date with what I'm doing by signing up to my newsletter: bit.ly/yuan-newsletter