On Friday 1st October, MEND Yorkshire organised a networking and fundraising dinner for businessmen and professionals at the prestigious Mumtaz Indian restaurant in Leeds overlooking Leeds dock. The dinner was attended by businessmen, doctors, accountants, solicitors, dentists, lecturers,...
In total Scotland has been part of three Freshers Fairs in Scotland, Herriot-Watt which you can read about in full in previous articles, The University of Strathclyde and The University of Stirling. They all took a similar format, early start, a lot of social distancing and mask-wearing, nervous...
It was nice to be back home at our old stomping ground. Over the last year we have carried out a lot of work at Edinburgh University and with the influx of new students, we did not want to stop the trend. We, however, did not manage to be part of the Freshers Fair as […]
We had never before worked with Harriot-Watt University, they also seemed a little further out of the centre of Edinburgh so a little off our radar. But Freshers Fairs were looming large so we reached out and they came back with a resounding yes, please come to our fair! So, on the morning of...
The full report for the first public enquiry on Islamophobia in Scotland was launched by Scotland Labour leader Anas Sarwar at an event last week. The report came about from the Scottish Governments Cross Party Group on Tackling Islamophobia. At the launch attended by Scotland regional manager and...
MEND Black Country and Stand Up to Racism organized a peaceful protest at West Park in Wolverhampton due to a recent incident where a Muslim boy was targeted. The team across Wolverhampton and Walsall came together to show solidarity against islamophobic and racist attacks on our streets. Our...
On Friday 21st May 2021 and Sunday 6th June 2021, MEND launched their Soft Skills program for volunteers, including a ‘Train the Presenter’ session. The session (s) was delivered by the Midlands Regional Manager, Robina Ruby Begum at MEND which covered the following: 🗣 What is a presenter?...
On Wednesday 24th March, we conducted an induction for volunteers in Preston following a drive in the local area. During the induction, we went through MEND as an organisation and its differing functions that work together to tackle Islamophobia in the UK. We provided attendees with an overview of...
On Friday 4th April, MEND Preston was invited on to ‘Community Talk’, hosted by a local community group called Deepdale Community Association. The aim of this conversation was to discuss the Race Report that was published by the government and to highlight how minority communities in the...
Prior to the Lancashire Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) elections on Thursday 6th May, we spoke to Clive Grunshaw, incumbent Labour candidate for Lancs PCC, about his priorities and plans should he be elected. This conversation was held in partnership with Deepdale Community Association. During...
