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Supporting Youth
Organisation	Project description	Proposed grant
Common Purpose	Common Purpose will deliver leadership training courses for younger members of the Muslim community: • “Your Turn” - a schools programme for year 9 pupils in London, Manchester, Birmingham and in West Yorkshire. • “Frontrunner” - a programme for young leaders in higher education. • A customized “Frontrunner” programme for 40 young Muslim leaders who are not in full-time education or who cannot make the dates of the three open programmes. • “Navigator” - a programme in every region of the UK for first career leaders.	£65,000 (08/09)
Local Leagues Limited	Programme of sports coaching and local competitions as preventative and diversionary activities for Muslim young people (aged 8-19 years) and engagement of undergraduates with policy makers and decision makers.	£79,440 (08/09)
Karimia Institute	Develop the work of the Muslim Youth Development Partnership, funded by CLG in 07/08 to train and support 150 volunteer Muslim Youth Leaders over three years.	£67,180 (08/09) £50,000 (09/10) £50,000 (10/11)
Bradford Police Club for Young People	Engagement of young people through workshops and informal classroom settings to examine the relationship between peace, violence, conflict and war with a particular emphasis on questions of applied ethics involving school teachers and youth community workers as trained educators.	£41,951 (08/09) £30,000 (09/10) £30,000 (10/11)
Muslim Youthwork Foundation	Scholarship programme for 10 individuals to undertake a National Youth Association accredited training course to qualify as Muslim youth and community workers.	£41,300 (08/09)
UK Race and Europe Network	Pilot of a citizenship toolkit resource to support the work of young leaders, youth workers, teachers, Imams and parents which has been developed using CLG funding in 2007/08	£75,072 (08/09)
OneVoice Europe	Engagement of young Muslim and Jewish students in a youth leadership development training course to build and promote a consensus for a peaceful resolution to conflicts in the Middle East.	£35,000 (08/09)
Changemakers Foundation	Continuation of 2007-08 CLG funded project to deliver a youth leadership programme to develop young leaders to become Changemakers and develop and deliver projects in their own communities.	£80,000 (08/09)
Nasiha	Youth Citizen Capacity Building Project to network young people in higher education to educate and support Key Stage 2 and 3 pupils in mosque schools.	£80, 000 (08/09)
Al-Khoei Foundation	Supporting the launch of the Young Muslim Leadership/ Ambassadors programme which will equip young people with theological understanding to counter extremist ideologies	£30,000 (08/09)
Bold Creative	Roll out of the Tagmap TV project across 3 regions. Tagmap TV is an internet based resource tool that encourages debate and discussion amongst young people about issues relating to faith, citizenship and identity. The project will also train 100 young people to become Tagmap Champions.	£49,000 (08/09) £60,000 (09/10) £70,000 (10/11)
Business in the Community	Mosaic Muslim Mentoring Scheme — This programme aims to promote positive messages about being a British Muslim and support young people to raise their aspirations and enhance their sense of belonging in UK society. The scheme will provide role models who will mentor groups of young people.	£30,000 (08/09) £50,000 (09/10)
Citizenship Foundation	The project will address issues around the alienation of Muslim youth by engaging them in Youth Engagement Groups. The groups will encourage processes of critical, democratic enquiry in order to address their grievances and help them to engage with the challenges of violent extremism.	£20,000 (08/09) £50,000 (09/10) £40,000 (10/11)
Ethnic Minority Benevolent Association	ASPIRE Project - Using group/family sessions, educational & capacity building workshops, this project aims to develop the knowledge, skills and increase the capacity of young Muslim people so that they may understand violent extremism and prevent it from happening in their locality and the wider community.	£40,000 (08/09) E50,000(09/10) £50,000 (10/11)
The Prince's Trust	The project will provide leadership opportunities for Muslim young people, equipping them with skills to enable them to become positive role models within their communities, and thus promoting positive alternatives to extremist ideas and influences. The Prince's Trust Community Cash Awards scheme will provide opportunities for groups of 14-25 year-olds to design and deliver their own community projects.	£7,000 (08/09) £54,000 (09/10) £52,000 (10/11)
Young Muslims UK	This project will create a network of local, regional and national events that will celebrate the best of British Muslim youth culture and talent and will promote positive alternative activities to young Muslims across England. The events will also create real and virtual spaces where young Muslims can come together to challenge the idea that being Muslim and being British are incompatible.	£20,000 (08/09)

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Supporting Women
Organisation	Project description	Proposed grant
Faith Matters	UK tour of Muslim women role models from the US. Women will be drawn from careers such as TV presenters, researchers, civil servants, business entrepreneurs, civil society organisational heads.	£29,775 (08/09) £29,775 (09/10)
Faith Matters	The purpose of this project is to compile a directory of the 100 leading mosques that provide the best access to women. Each mosque will be awarded a rating out of five stars based on criteria developed through women’s focus groups. The ultimate aim is to incentivise mosques to improve their engagement with and inclusion of women in all aspects of their work through greater access to recognition and resources from the public sector.	£75,350 (08/09)
Henna Foundation	The “Joining Hands Against Forced Marriage” project aims to support Muslim women at risk of being forced into marriage and to educate them that Islam actually forbids forced marriage. Henna will adapt the “Joining Hands against Forced Marriage” Campaign to the British context. They will also organise awareness-raising events to create a safe space for debate between young women, parents and other community members about forced marriage. The project also aims to train Muslim women in local communities in public speaking to empower them to use the toolkit on forced marriage.	£28,000 (08/09) £17,525 (09/10) £23,259 (10/11)
Kali	Creating a platform to speak out on radicalisation through drama for Muslim women. The project will develop the women's skills in writing for public performance through a series of workshops. Performances will be held across the country by actors and the writers will subsequently present on their work.	£8,431.66 (08/09) £6,425 (09/10) £13,300 (10/11)
Somali Family Support Group	The Tawjeeh Project will help build a network of Somali women and to develop their understanding of and their participation in wider UK society and how their faith relates to being part of wider society. The project will also provide participants with the interpersonal skills to challenge radical views within their family and the wider community and to support their children to turn away from violent extremism.	£20,000 (08/09) £15,645 (09/10) £33,780 (10/11)
Three Faiths Forum	Young Muslim women (ages 13-18) from traditional Islamic girls' schools will use exploration of clothing and fashion to construct their own sense of Britishness and belonging, whilst remaining proud and strong in their faith. They will also develop ways to help their peers become resilient to distorted, limiting views on the expected role and behaviour codes of women, by exposing them to Islamic Scholarship.	£5,000 (08/09) £15,000 (09/10)
Timebank (One20)	A two-year mentoring project in London & Manchester to empower Muslim women so that they are equipped with the practical tools needed to play a full and active role in society and lead on challenging extremism within their families and communities. This programme will match 60 older women with 60 younger women in one-to-one mentoring relationships.	£60,000 (08/09) £50,000 (09/10)
Local Government Yorkshire and Humber	The development of a regional Muslim women's network to increase and enhance the representation of Muslim women among decision making bodies in the region, through leadership training and mentoring. It is intended that this project model will be replicated in other regions.	£29,300 (08/09) £30,000 (09/10) £25,000 (10/11)

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Supporting Faith Leaders
Organisation	Project description	Proposed grant
Luqman Institute	Extension of the pilot Imam training programme funded in 2007-08 to develop training materials and deliver courses to 20 senior imams over an 8-month period	£80,006 (08/09)
Psychology and Religion Research Group, University of Cambridge	Imam Training Course to equip young, newly qualified Imams to engage with British culture and humanitarian values, and to find parallel values within the Qur'an.	£60,000 from CLG (08/09) £60,000 from DIUS (08/09)
Demos	“Futures thinking” workshops for Muslim young people and Imams to explore the “future” of their interaction in the mosque. The workshops will be delivered in partnership with MINAB.	£65,624 (08/09)
Al-Manaar Muslim Cultural Heritage Centre	Projects and education programme to promote a positive Islamic identity for Muslims in Britain that will create a future generation of British Muslim faith leaders who understand British society and also have knowledge of relevant and robust Islamic teachings and scholarship.	£50,000 (08/09) £50,000 (09/10)
The Dialogue Society	To encourage, equip and empower Muslim community organisations, leaders, imams and youth workers in the practice of interfaith and intercultural dialogue, through a 6 element project emphasising dialogue in Islam. This will include DIY dialogue event manuals, sermons for Muslim faith leaders and a website.	£33,850 (08/09) £32,700 (09/10)
Urban Nexus	Beacon Mosques project. Building the capacity of mosques in order to create “beacon mosques”, through the provision of training, building skills of imams, trainee imams, chairs and secretaries of the organisations to build their knowledge and capacity to build resilience to extremist ideologies.	£7,800 (08/09) £94,400 (09/10) £72,100 (10/11)
Rahabar Trust (with the Urdu Times)	Increasing the number of Muslim faith leaders with skills to act as speakers, spokespersons and role models in society and in the media.	£10,000 (08/09) £12,500 (09/10) £12,500 (10/11)
League of British Muslims	Using regional Communication Development Programmes to build the capacity of Muslim faith and community leaders to relate to young people more effectively and to focus on issues that are relevant to them as young British Muslims.	£10,000 (08/09) £25,000 (09/10) £25,000 (10/11)

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