Raising climate awareness in humanitarian development. With COP26, the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, taking place in Glasgow this November, understanding how to prioritise climate change into your humanitarian work, can seem like a daunting task. From large international charities working across multiple countries, to smaller grassroots NGOs, even if your organisation does not...
The purpose of charitable organisations is to alleviate the suffering of the world’s most vulnerable, and to give communities a fairer and more equal chance at life. At the forefront of this work, it is our duty to protect and safeguard those we serve at every stage of our involvement. At MCF, we prioritise and...
Fadi Itani, chief executive of the Muslim Charities Forum, takes a look at the debate of whether Muslim charities should be focusing their attention on domestic causes. Following the end of the holy month of Ramadan, a time when Muslims become more generous than the rest of the year, it will be useful to shed...
Two weeks ago, British charity Muslim Aid and member of the Muslim Charities Form, published an eye opening report highlighting the response and the critical role that the voluntary sector had in responding to the Grenfell fire. It underlined the failings of the local council and the central government in their response to the tragedy...
From the Friday 3rd October, 2014 print edition of the Daily Telegraph, the page is pictured below:
MCF’s response to allegations in The Daily Telegraph 23/09/2014 Tuesday 23rd September 2014 The Muslim Charities Forum is shocked and dismayed at the allegations contained in The Daily Telegraph article ‘Government donation to Muslim Charities Forum denounced as “madness” (23 September 2014). We would like to clarify that the funding from the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG)...
The Muslim Charities Forum (MCF) is extremely disappointed at the decision by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) to discontinue its support for the Faith Minorities in Action project. The MCF is committed to creating an integrated Muslim charitable network in the UK and to building partnerships which have been a key part...
