On Monday 14th March, MEND Yorkshire was invited by the Islamic Society at the University of York to deliver a session on Media in the UK. MEND Yorkshire and Humber Regional Manager delivered a condensed version of the MEND media masterclass presentation. The presentation familiarised the attendees...
On Saturday 12th March, MEND and AMINA hosted “A Toast to Unpaid Labour”, an in-person event to celebrate International Women’s Day 2022. To bring women together and celebrate their unpaid labour, MEND asked attendees to each bring their own dish for everybody to enjoy together. The event...
On Saturday 19th March thousands took to the streets of Glasgow from across the whole of Scotland, as Stand Up to Racism called all to action against racism, Islamophobia and hate. The march marked the United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, marked on 21st...
On February 9th 2022, MEND held an in-person event with Herriot Watt University Muslim Society (HWUMS) at the Herriot Watt University in Edinburgh. The purpose of the event was to give attendees deeper insight into Islamophobia and to explore their thoughts on the topic. The MEND regional manager...
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...
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?...
