Since the pandemic, JAN Trust and other BAME charities have required funding to continue providing much needed support to vulnerable communities. Sajda has written in Third Sector Magazine asking the Government to prioritise BAME communities by providing the vital financial support. Read the opinion piece here or below: As we begin to see the implications …
Recent research highlights that teaching young people to produce anti-radicalisation video campaigns should be a central element in combatting extremism. Our Another Way Forward programme embodies this counter-extremism model to galvanise young girls to counter extremism. At JAN Trust, we truly recognise the potential of young women and girls as positive change actors in preventing …
JAN Trust has been around since 1989 and that means we’ve been able to build trust with local women, allowing us to tackle some of the most difficult and sensitive issues in society. 30 years ago, our founder Rafaat Mughal OBE recognised a need for a service to help marginalised women. Local women had been …
However, more work needs to be done to address the roots of this terrible crime Embed from Getty Images In a historic trial, a woman became the first person in the UK to be convicted for female genital mutilation (FGM) after evidence was found to implicate her in her 3-year-old daughter’s mutilation. She now faces …
We at JAN Trust are honoured to have four new ambassadors on board: actress Bhavna Limbachia, comedian Shazia Mirza, comedian Mawaan Rizwan and netball player Geva Mentor! Mawaan started his career on YouTube, where his comedy videos have been viewed over 19 million times. He recently starred in the BAFTA-winning BBC3 drama Murdered By My …
Countless women have come forward in the last few weeks accusing the Hollywood producer star, Harvey Weinstein, of sexual assault and rape; Angelina Jolie and Gwyneth Paltrow being amongst them. The Oscar-winning actress Emma Thompson has claimed that these kinds of sexual harassment stories in the Hollywood industry are in fact “endemic” and that Weinstein is simply “the top …
