On Saturday 13th June 2020, MEND Blackburn, in collaboration with Queensway Medical Centre, hosted an online webinar to discuss End of Life Care, especially in a BAME context. Dr Asif Sange chaired a panel with Dr Gill Au, Medical Director and Trinity Hospice, and Imam Fazlurrehman Hassan. Muslim...
On Saturday 20th June, we presented our Causes and Cures of Islamophobia workshop to our volunteers as part of our ongoing education and training for our MEND Working Groups. We believe that it is important to empower the Muslim community at a grassroots level so they can tackle the problem of...
The murder of George Floyd, a Black American man who was killed after a white police officer knelt on his neck during an arrest, sparked a global movement in support of the Black community and demand for equal and fair treatment. On Saturday 20th June, Stand Up To Racism Wakefield arranged a...
MEND Scotland is growing and we could not be happier. We held our first online zoom volunteer induction on Tuesday 23rd June 2020 with six new volunteers in attendance along with our vice chairs from both Glasgow and Edinburgh working groups and our Scotland Chair dropping by to say salaam to all...
MEND Scotland initiated an open letter that was signed by 36 Scottish Muslim and equalities organisations and called on all political parties in Scotland to sign a commitment to work towards ‘Increasing Muslim Representation in Scottish Politics’ MEND Press Release 36 Muslim and equalities...
After George Floyd, an unarmed black man, was killed by a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, protests erupted across the U.S. and the rest of the world calling for justice – not only for George Floyd but for all those who have died as a result of police and state brutality. At MEND we...
Our local partnership with Deepdale Community Association (DCA) in Preston continued post-Ramadhan. DCA is a grassroots organisation run by volunteers on the ground who work to address the concerns and needs for local community. Prior to the current global pandemic, DCA worked to increase the...
The Period Poverty Project is an initiative set up locally in Manchester, headed up by Ghazala Tehseen. Over the last few months, MEND Manchester have partnered up locally with the organisation to support the essential work they’re doing in the community to address an issue that is often ignored,...
MEND Manchester have been working to address the many issues relating to the exclusion of Black Muslims from Muslim spaces, and the need to ensure that their voices and experiences are highlighted and amplified within the Muslim community to reduce anti-Black racism and to provide a united front in...
Amina Shareef from our Sheffield Working Group recently spoke at an online rally for the Black Lives Matter movement hosted by Stand Up To Racism Sheffield. The event was organised to show solidarity with those protesting police brutality in the US, as well as in the UK. In her speech, Amina...
