Jonathan Freeman, the Foundation’s CEO (Interim) has been recognised in Her Majesty The Queen’s New Year’s Honours List with an MBE for services to charity. Under his leadership, Jonathan has helped the Foundation to develop a powerful new strategy focussed on building strong and cohesive communities, enabling young people to reach their potential and empowering … Continued
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The COSARAF Foundation are excited to be partnering with the GEAR Trust to deliver a new project in micro-finance supporting the poor and needy into self-employment in Pakistan.
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Our partnership with the Oxford Pakistan Programme (OPP) has seen three deserving graduate students of Pakistani heritage receive COSARAF studentships at the university.
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The COSARAF Foundation has pledged emergency funding to partner, Plan International UK, to support in their humanitarian efforts for those impacted by the conflict in Sudan.
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Trustees have donated £5,000 to the Simon Prodger Legacy Fund in memory of his devotion and passion in the work of our major grant partner, East Africa Character Development Trust.
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Trustees have donated £5,000 to the local Hertfordshire Community Foundation to boost their Children’s Fund.
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The COSARAF Foundation trustees are incredibly passionate about enterprise, having built up their own business using their entrepreneurship skills. We have a dedicated partnership with the Prince’s Trust Enterprise programme in the UK, supporting them for many years now, and have funded 7 young people to launch their own businesses so far in 2023.
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Great news from Carers Worldwide, our match-funding donation to their 2022 Festive Appeal, has helped open their new Community Caring Centre in Bangladesh! 15 disabled children and their carers are enrolled and other unpaid family carers in the area are also using the centre for group activities and events.
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We welcomed a new partner, SWIHA Charity Foundation, supporting their sustainable water project in Uganda this Ramadan.
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As part of our ongoing programme of support to our scholars, we have some exciting new online webinars, exclusive for our Sheikh scholars to access this summer.
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We were pleased to be able to support a new partner delivering a Ramadan food programme this year in Bangladesh, the Nabiganj Darul Ulum Madrasha and Orphan Centre.
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The COSARAF Foundation’s Ramadan Fund awarded £4,902 to Carers Worldwide to supplement their support to disabled children and their carers in Savar sub-district of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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£35,000 fund awarded to our flagship partner, the Fahmida Begum Foundation (FBF), to provide 1,025 vital Ramadan food parcels to the needy in Mehran, Karachi, Pakistan.
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We were delighted to attend the 10th anniversary event for our partner, Carers Worldwide, hosted in the historic River Room, House of Lords, London, as a guest of Baroness Uddin.
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Mehran Welfare Trust became new partners for our Ramadan Fund this year, distributing ‘food buckets’ with essential items for the holy month to 500 families.
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Our loyal partners, the Hatcliffe Extension Charitable Trust, have supported Muslim families living in hardship in Zimbabwe, with Ramadan food hampers and providing Iftar meals at local mosques.
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The Shamakha Foundation have long been partners with the COSARAF Foundation, delivering essential daily feeding programmes to poverty stricken communities in rural, coastal Kenya. Annually, we fund them to provide food packages to families during Ramadan and this year, Eid meals were also provided.
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The COSARAF Foundation’s Ramadan Fund continues it’s annual support in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India, with food parcels distributed to 250 poor Muslim families through our valued partner the Join Hands Trust.
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The COSARAF Foundation were delighted to read the impact of a £10,000 zakat donation made to Prince’s Trust International, helping to improve livelihoods of marginalised young people across the globe.
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Congratulations to Sheikh Family Scholar, Shayma Bhakt, on winning Young Journalist of the Year at the national Press Awards 2023!
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The COSARAF Foundation trustees and team were delighted to host the first-ever COSARAF Iftar event supported by the Ramadan Tent Project and hosted by the V&A.
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The Foundation is delighted to publish its Annual Report and accounts for the financial year 2021/22. Please view the report here: COSARAF Annual Report 21-22 FINAL
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Trustees were delighted to be part of the Welcome Ramadan Conference this year, marking the 10 year anniversary of the Ramadan Tent Project and officially launching the inaugural Ramadan Pavilion at the prestigious V & A Museum in Kensington, London.
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The COSARAF Charitable Foundation is excited to be sponsoring a groundbreaking art installation celebrating the history of the Mosque in Britain at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
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The COSARAF Foundation has pledged emergency funding to our partner DİVERSİTY FARKLILIK DERNEĞİ to support the earthquake relief efforts in Turkey.
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