Community Resilience Project

The Aims of the Project were to:

• Raise the profile of the main Muslim communities.
• Promote community cohesion and rejection of extremism.
• Encourage greater engagement with local young people by offering them constructive leisure and community based activites as well as advice and support in preventing general exclusion.
• To enhance young people's prospects in education and employment thereby reducing any vulnerability they may have in being targeted by extremists.
• Create awareness of all faiths and promote interfaith/cultural dialogue.
• Ensure girls and young women actively participate in preventing violent extremism.

The Key Activities of the Project were:

• Developing Outreach Youth Projects linked to local mosquesto encourage greater engagement with local young people to establish the Young Muslim People's Network. This Network had links to the IMAN and promoted community cohesion and rejection of extremism.
• Working in partnerships with Forums of Faith.
• Developing a Muslim Sisters' Network (MSN), linked to their local mosque, to actively participate in preventing violent extremism.