"It's a very high figure but it wasn't necessarily a surprise to me," he says. "Perhaps it would have been a year ago, but not now."
Until last year Saithna was working for the Learning and Skills Council in Leicester, but he decided it was "time to do some more hands-on work rather than theorising and strategising". He moved to London to take up one of only four full-time posts at Muslim Youth.
The organisation was set up in 2001 as a phoneline to support young Muslims.
The line is now open every day until midnight, and in October last year it launched a web site, www.muslimyouth.net.
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