At the end of September the MEND Sheffield Working Group welcomed Dr Jo Britton, Senior Lecturer in Applied Sociology at the University of Sheffield, to their regional webinar series MEND Report Yorkshire. This webinar, which was organised and hosted by our Sheffield volunteer, Amina, aimed to...
An inspiring, emotional and thought-provoking chat with Zaynab Hussein, a victim of a horrendous Islamophobic hate crime in 2017. The interview gave us a thoughtful insight into what happens to a victim of hate crime and the impact it has on their whole life. This is her first full interview...
On Thursday 10th and Friday 11th September 2020, we held inductions for new volunteers for our MEND Oldham Working Group. The Oldham WG formed this year to locally address Islamophobia in a strategic and efficient manner. In order to make sure that we are working positively and able to complete the...
On Thursday 17th September, MEND Preston set up a meeting with the Hate Crime and Cohesion Unit at Lancashire Constabulary. The team felt it was important to arrange this meeting to discuss how the work we’re doing locally can overlap with the work of the unit, especially with Islamophobia...
Umar and Rahema, Chair and Vice-Chair of Cardiff Working Group, presented MEND’s Causes and Cures (C&C) presentation to Race Equality First (REF). REF has over 40 years of experience as the recognised lead body in South Wales for tackling discrimination and hate crime. The C&C was...
On Monday 21st September, MEND Blackburn met with Dr Claire Coyle of the Local Medical Committee to discuss how the two can work together towards addressing Islamophobia as part of the local LMC’s larger strategy to address racism within General Practice. The LMC have locally put out a survey to...
We are expanding in Scotland. It has been a busy week for the working groups in Scotland with webinars, working group meetings, Islamophobia Awareness Month planning and new volunteer inductions. We held our first Edinburgh only volunteer induction on Wednesday 9th September. We had five new...
September started off with our Birmingham Team launching a series of Islamophobia Causes and Cures sessionS for new volunteers. This session explored what Islamophobia is, the causes behind it, and what we can do as individuals and as a community to tackle it. The presentation was very well...
From Friday 21st August to Wednesday 26th August 2020, we presented our Politics Masterclass in three bite size sessions to volunteers across Yorkshire and other regions. This made up part of our ongoing efforts to provide training and education opportunities for MEND Working Groups and volunteers....
Following the MSP open letter calling on Scottish political parties to better engage with Muslim communities we waited for contact from the political parties, with MEND and the community. Eventually it came, political parties started to respond to our call for engagement and representation. The...
