On the 22nd June, Cardiff WG were at Cardiff Central Library with MEND resources to share with vulnerable service users and other organisations commemorating Refugee Week. MEND thanks Cardiff Central library and the Welsh Refugee Council for giving us the opportunity to share our invaluable...
On Saturday 16th June MEND North was invited to deliver a workshop at the City Mosque in Preston. The workshop was tailored to a mosque setting and its attendees. The workshop highlighted the importance of defining islamophobia, as well as proposing the definition published by the APPG. Examples of...
On the 3rd of June MEND North delivered a workshop at the NEU Conference in Leeds. Members of the NEU from Kirklees and beyond attended the event. The session started with a discussion on the APPG definition and the importance of organisations to adopt the definition. Attendees highlighted that...
The Home Office has announced the continuation of ‘The Places of Worship Protective Security Funding Scheme’ alongside a ‘Protective Security for Mosques Scheme’ in 2023 and 2024, which means that mosques and Muslim faith schools/community centres have been given access to funding to...
In a recent open letter, campaign groups have urged the government to adopt amendments to the Online Safety Bill which would enable researchers to access platform data to monitor harmful material. According to the letter, if the landmark legislation does not provide independent researchers access...
On Thursday 27th April, MEND held an important Mayoral Hustings in readiness for the mayoral/local elections on 4th May 2023. In attendance were all the candidates bar one. In attendance were; Rita Patel (independent), Parmajit Singh Gil (liberal democrats), Steve Score (Trade unionist and...
On the 7th June, the Cardiff MEND WG and Junior Regional Manager were invited by Jess at Cardiff Radio’s ‘Unity in Our Community’ show to discuss the work we do. Our volunteers painted a picture of who is MEND, what we look like locally and what some of our achievements were in Cardiff. We...
The results of May’s local elections proved a marginal victory for the Labour Party in Leicester. Although they lost 22 seats, and the Conservatives gained 17, the party Sir Keir Starmer still holds an overall of 31 councillors to Rishi Sunak’s 17. However, behind the numbers, a potentially...
On Thursday 4th of May, MEND North was invited by Lancaster University to speak on Islamophobia and various discourses around the subject. Speakers from other organisations covered various aspects of Islamophobia. Dr Madeline started the event with a discussion on institutional Islamophobia and...
Recently, Diane Abbott, a prominent member of the Labour Party, was suspended due to concerns regarding antisemitism. In a letter to the Observer, she stated that Jewish individuals did not face the same form of “racism” as Black individuals but encountered “prejudice.”...
