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Following a training programme, a residential trip and a rigorous interview process, young Tower Hamlets student Mazhar Alam has successfully made it through the selection process onto the shortlist of suitable candidates to become the Young Mayor of Tower Hamlets. Now ...

The Daily Mail and its regular columnist Katie Hopkins have apologised for an article she wrote a year ago, in which she suggested that two brothers, Mohammed Tariq Mahmood and Mohammed Zahid Mahmood, were extremists linked to Al Qaeda. The ...

Emdad Rahman Kind hearted staff from Pearson – The World’s Learning Company – have given up their time and money to bring some festive cheer to some of London’s most vulnerable citizens. The Relations & Development team members donated a ...

Muslim Aid organised a “big food drive” at the East London Mosque last Friday – with generous worshippers donating a mountain of food for those homeless at Christmas. Ten tonnes of food was handed in by those going to pray, ...

Although the number of overt racist and anti-muslim attacks has slowed down from its post-Brexit peak, prejudice and misunderstanding in the general population continues to run high – and could boil over again. Ipsos Mori has now released the results ...

A major appeal was launched earlier this week by the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) to help people facing hunger in Yemen, with Clare Balding and Tom Hardy fronting appeals on both television and radio appeals. The UK Government will match donations ...

The City of London Corporation’s charitable funder, City Bridge Trust, has awarded a grant of £95,500 to Artsadmin, a charity that enables artists to create without boundaries and to connect their work with diverse local, national and international audiences. A ...

Emdad Rahman The Welsh Bengal Dragons travelled down from Wales to take part in a crucial exhibition friendly as part of a fundraising drive to build the first ever girls only orphanage in Palestine. The “Unity Through Sport” match saw ...

Emdad Rahman Local businessman Kam Ali was among the winners at the twelfth Community Leadership Awards Gala Dinner in partnership with SOAS, University of London. The glitzy event took place at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Western Gateway, London. The philanthropreneur ...

Emdad Rahman Pupils from London East Academy and Al Mizan school in east London raised £3,239.57 for the Ummah Welfare Trust’s winter appeal to support the desperately needy citizens of war ravaged Syria. Year 8 were top of the table ...