Al-Mizan Charitable Trust is a Muslim grant-funder which supports disadvantaged people and deprived communities across the UK, regardless of their faith or cultural background.
Jonathan will be released from prison next month. He wants to renew his gas installation certificate, so he can be self-employed.
Sandra’s husband died in a car accident. She wants to do a hair-dressing course so she can feed her 3 orphaned children.
Margaret, 58 years, suffered a back injury last year and she takes strong pain killers. She was moved to a council flat with no furniture, and crucially, no bed.
Ahmed has a learning disability and wants to buy a literacy programme to help him communicate.
Soraya will be evicted from her home, if she can’t pay her rent this month.
Twenty-four year old Layla is a refugee from war-torn Congo, where she was raped by a militia group at the age of 15 years. She fled her home country, with her grandmother, after her family were killed. Settled in the UK, she married a few years ago, but her husbance was violent towards her. After becoming pregnant, she fled her husband’s home, afraid that her husband’s regular beatings would harm her unborn child. She now lives in a hostel, sharing a room with a crack addict. Layla works 25...
Lower income families in the UK have cut their consumption of fruit and vegetables by nearly a third in the wake of the recession and rising food prices, to just over half of the five-a-day portions that the government recommends for a healthy diet. Households in the lowest tenth of incomes were buying only 2.7 portions of fruit and vegetables a day at the end of 2010, the latest year for whi...
