MEND Birmingham working group organised a masterclass where MEND’s national media coordinator, Deryn Ellis, delivered training to local volunteers and the public. The training concentrated on how to best utilise social media platforms for Facebook and Twitter. Attendees learnt how to use each...
After many months of hard work by the local volunteers, MEND Nottingham had its launch event in Nottingham on Friday 30th June, at the Lenton Business centre. The boardroom at the business centre was full with local people keen to learn about Mend’s work tackling Islamophobia. Police...
In the heart of England and at the epicentre of Muslim Britain Mend held an event in Birmingham, titled Challenging Islamophobia in Schools. The half day presentation was attended by School teachers and parents from as far afield as Manchester and Leeds. The head of Mend’s schools team Shahab...
Mend’s Islamophobia Response Unit (IRU) held a listening exercise in Walsall, in The West Midlands. The event was a first of this type of activity for the IRU. At a local Council owned centre Muslim women gathered to speak with Huma Malik of the IRU and Councillor Sabina Ditta. There...
Assalamu Alaykum, Ramadan 2018 proved to be an eventful month for the Central London Working Group. This was particularly so with the different events which the Working Group did in collaboration with Ramadan Tent Project’s Open Iftar initiative. Its first event, during this month, was Aman...
The Mend volunteers were present at the inspirational Ramadan Tent Project Open Iftar, held on the grounds of ST Chads Cathedral, the first roman catholic cathedral built in England after the reformation. The location was on the lawns of the Cathedral, overlooking Birmingham’s central business...
Mend Researcher Dr Antonio Perra presented a paper to a session of the Midlands TUC and Stand up to Racsim regional conference in Birmingham. The session was titled Prevent, Trojan Horse and the fight against Islamophobia. The other speaker during the session was Professor John Holmwood, author...
MEND organised a creative training on 15th of April 2018 for talented individuals on how to take movie-like shots and create short films using just ones own mobile phone. The purpose of the training is to harness the local talents and enable participants to come with innovative ideas to visually...
Islamophobia is on the rise, mosques are being vandalised, sisters are spat on and Katie Hopkins continues to tweet against Muslims and Islam. To tackle that, MEND Bristol organised a community event; Islamophobia: A Living Reality on 5th of May 2018. At the event, MEND regional manger Sahar...
The IRU, Islamophobia Response Unit, plays a crucial role in the work MEND does in fighting against Islamophobic hate crime and other forms of discrimination. On the 28th of May 2018, the Central London Working Group held the IRU stall at the Ramadan Tent Project. Despite the sudden and heavy rain,...
