MEND recently hosted a webinar titled ‘Black and Muslim in Academia’, an enlightening discussion on the lived experience of three Black Muslim academics working in the UK Higher Education sector. Research by the Equality Challenge Unit in 2017 showed not only the existence of a university...
On Saturday 3rd October MEND held new volunteer inductions for the MEND Derby Working Group. The Derby WG is one of MEND’s new groups that has started to form this year to empower and encourage British Muslims within their local community to be actively involved in British media and politics...
Last week MEND’s Yorkshire and Humber Regional Manager delivered a presentation on Islam to the 1st Leven Scout Group based in Leven (the East Riding of Yorkshire) over Zoom. This presentation was delivered in order to help the scouts earn their ‘World Faith Badge’ in which Islam was the...
During National Hate Crime Awareness Week 2020 (October 10th– October 17th) MEND’s Yorkshire and Humber Regional Managers delivered presentations centred on Islamophobia to students at Bradford College. In each session, MEND’s ‘Causes and Cures of Islamophobia’ presentation was delivered...
Interfaith Scotland is a Scottish charity specialising in promoting and facilitating constructive engagement between differing faith and belief communities across Scotland through dialogue, educational activities, civic engagement and the promotion of religious equality. Interfaith Scotland was...
MEND Yorkshire initiated an open letter that was signed by over 40 Yorkshire-based faith groups and community organisations which called upon the Yorkshire County Cricket Club (YCCC) and the Yorkshire Cricket Board (YCB) to initiate investigations into institutional racism within the club....
MEND Birmingham Working Group launched their MEND report Midlands show on the 12th September asking the question ‘Is Islamophobia prevalent in the West Midlands?’. The show explored the Trojan horse Affair, Islamophobic hate crimes within the West Midlands and the causes of it before...
Newham is a densely populated borough in the East End of London which includes some established neighbourhoods like Forest Gate, Plaistow, Manor Park, East Ham and Canning Town. More than four out of ten people in the borough are aged 25 or under and two thirds are from minority ethnic backgrounds...
The global Covid-19 pandemic has completely changed our day to day lives, particularly since the lockdown has taken force. This has been no different at MEND, where once monthly evening meetings would be taking place for different working groups across the UK, this new reality has meant all those...
On Thursday 1st October the MEND Yorkshire team welcomed Naz Shah, MP for Bradford West, on to our series MEND Report Yorkshire. During this session, which was hosted by our volunteer Amina, Naz Shah shared her thoughts on being a Muslim woman of colour in politics and some of the experiences this...
