The Foundation is pleased to present its offer to work with the public sector and other partners in its pursuit of delivering high quality, cost effective, community-facing interventions. said the director of the Foundation Imam Abdul Hafeez Siddique; ‘In an uncertain financial landscape where over £18 billion pounds of cuts to Local Authority budgets have been made since 2010, a radical new way of working is required. Therefore our vision is a leap forward in the delivery of cost effective,…
Continue Reading‘Kai ghammm tee Abdul?-What village are you from Abdul!’ why gatekeepers ruin it for the rest of us.
by Abdul Siddique The oxford dictionary defines a gatekeeper to be ‘an attendant employed to control who goes through a gate’. I would like to use this analogy as a vehicle to explore the many challenges and flaws that face organisations in Britain today that purport to represent South-Asian, Muslims communities or both. It makes me cringe to recount an experience where I engaged with such a community organisation and asked outright ‘which village are you from Abdul?’. This qualifying…
Continue ReadingMoving beyond Tea and Samosa Interfaith
by Ali Amla I’ve been writing blogs for some time and finally found some time to reflect. It feels like a lifetime ago that I was very fortunate enough to have been invited to speak on I is for interfaith on the A-Z of Things Unseen, you can hear the short 5 minute podcast here: The opportunity to share my experiences was powerful, sharing memories, my thoughts on interfaith and how I am nurturing my children from a very young…
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