YOUNG MUSLIM VOICES
Aim: To empower young Muslims to have a say about the issues affecting their lives and decrease exclusion and marginalisation
Funding: Includes around £67,000 from the Home Office's Preventing Violent Extremism fund and funding from Islington Council
An award-winning group in Islington is helping young Muslims tackle stereotypes. Young Muslim Voices was established in 2007 as part of the borough's Listen Up participation project.
"If you look at the way young Muslims are portrayed in the media the focus is on them as potential terrorists," says Listen Up manager Dan Firth. "We set up the project so we could look at what was really happening."
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