Muslim Welfare House

MWH aims are:

·         To contribute to the improvement of the social and economic conditions of the whole community in Islington, with a focus on the marginalised and ethnic communities

·         To enable “socially excluded” individuals and local ethnic communities to improve their quality of life by accessing sustainable, well paid employment and self employment

·         To combat problems of anti-social behaviour and unhealthy lifestyles with a focus on young ethnic minority people in the area

·         To work more closely with Voluntary Sector Organisations (VSOs) and Governmental Bodies in securing better grants and project financing for existing and future projects

·         To increase co-operation with other VSOs in the area of knowledge sharing and lessons learnt in complementary service areas

The objectives of the organisation are:

·         To provide a holistic package of support measures to our user community during focused skills training - this included one to one support and counselling to those most disaffected

·         To focus on the Business and Employment Support program, extending it to partner with private enterprise, and raise awareness of its effectiveness in the local community

·         To provide high quality training and “upskilling” programs, as part of the ‘MWH Women in the Workplace’ focus, in line with the ongoing Adult Education project. Furthermore, to ensure access to alternative progression routes to those who cannot enter full time education

·         To act as a base and enabler for projects/organisations, which target socially excluded young people, and to provide culturally sensitive provision focussed on education, training, health and welfare

·         To further refine the comprehensive fund-raising strategy building on the action plan for approaching all appropriate funding opportunities from local, regional, national and international sources.

·         To hold quarterly or bi-annual knowledge sharing workshops with local VSOs to better share information on key services

·         To refurbish and renovate the existing MWH premises for use by the user community that will be in line with the renewal and regeneration strategy of Finsbury Park

·         To develop a structured volunteers programme (in line with a volunteer recruitment campaign) that provides appropriate training and makes best use of volunteer resources using an optimised resource planning strategy 

The Muslim Welfare house have three main aims, all relating caring for the varied communities:

-       accomdate their educational, social and welfare needs.

-       to promote community engagement and integration in all fields of society

-       to work positively for a stakeholder centric particiaption by ethnic minority communities in society