We are delighted to be offering both DV bilingual specialist counselling to Bamer women and awareness workshops for Bamer boys. The focus being on the intersectionality of drugs, violence and criminal exploitation. The DV work has been kindly funded by The Office of the Lancashire Police Crime Commissioner, Clive Grunshaw. Who stated, “The pandemic continues to put extra pressures on families and relationships and whilst that should never be an excuse for any kind of violence, the reality is that…
Continue ReadingLOVING The FLOW Quarterly Magazine
The young people who were involved worked tirelessly to bring high quality content to young audiences. The Magazine is based around four key community cohesion themes, BELONG, BUILD, ACHIEVE, VALUE. This issue features reporting on important efforts by organisations in Bolton to help the homeless, Bolton’s first ever christian-Muslim-Humanist dialogue project, a detailed look at how the cotton industry and manufacturing shaped Bolton’s landscape as well as interviews with recent migrants who share their love and life in our town! Said the…
Continue ReadingManchester Unites cohesion programme
We are delighted to have been funded by Manchester city council to work in partnership with Al-Hilal CiC to deliver an exciting, innovative community cohesion e-magazine for the City. Young people from the Cheetham and Crumpsall wards will take part in writing the content, design and publication of this e-magazine. It will focus on belonging, civic participation, valuing other cultures and young people’s aspirations for the ward. Aside from exploring the different facets of community life and belonging in the wards; young…
Continue ReadingBuilding More Resilient Communities Project – Manchester
We are excited to announce our collaboration with Faith Matters and Al- Hilal to deliver a series of workshops in Manchester that will equip marginalised women with the critical thinking skills, knowledge and awareness to challenge and reject narratives and ideologies of hate and extremism. It will ensure that participants better understand the challenges that face community cohesion in the city and how they can collectively be overcome. The project will be delivered in the Cheetham Hill and Newton Heath areas of…
Continue ReadingHatecrime projects in Bolton 2017-2019
We are thrilled to be working for the third year in a row with Bolton Council’s Be safe partnership and Bolton CVS to raise much needed awareness of hate crime to Bolton’s marginalised communities. Last year we delivered hate crime workshops and awareness sessions to somali women. This year we intend to deliver similar workshops to elderly south-asian women and young mothers. The director of the Foundation; Imam Abdul Hafeez Siddique noted; ‘“Hate crime has no place in a vibrant…
Continue Readingmedia influence of the general British population on UK Muslims
‘Hate crime in general and Islamophobia in particular have become major issues in Britain. Shaped by a range of dynamics; there has been a reported 40% increase in hate crime in 2017 with a 52% increase in Islamophobic incidents (Homeoffice, 2018). Many argue that Media bias or perceptions of Muslims in the Media could also be a contributing factor. This research project explores this hypothesis. A partnership between Flowhesion, The University of Chester and NCCP; it explores ‘the long-term exposure…
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