We are a dynamic coalition of organisations and individuals, each contributing various skills, expertise, and capabilities.
And we’re at your service. We can provide:
Political Strategy
We help you determine whether your local area should put up an independent. Which party should you back?
Political Education
We will come in and talk you through your local constituency data with our proprietary analysis. We will share with you our step-by-step guide to organising a local campaign.
Selection panel advice
Not sure how you should choose, due diligence, and question independent candidates? We can help with advice and even come in to provide experienced panel members.
Coordination
Join our Whatsapp community and your local campaign will get the latest electoral updates and keep completely in step with all the other campaigns going on around the country.
Tech
We have a group of world class developers ready to serve your campaign. Our sign up flows, data visualisations and social media alerts will help all campaigns.
Volunteers
We have a ready bank of thousands of volunteers ready to help you out in your campaign. From knocking on doors, to media outreach, to crafting political materials and more.
Data
If you need local polling, we can assist. This can then help pave your election strategy and create media interest.
Marketing/Social media
Our campaign supporters collectively reach over 20m. We can help get your message out. We can help you craft a high quality social media strategy.
Legal advice
We have multiple pro bono legal organisations ready to help you navigate the legal issues that political campaigning inevitably comes.
Funding
We will support you and work with you to secure the funding you need for your local campaigns.
Muslims are everyday Brits, and we want what is best for Britain.
There are also some specific issues that affect Muslims specifically that we particularly care about.
We don’t want to reinvent the wheel
Many civil society organisations that have grassroots backing from the Muslim community have already proposed intelligent pledges that political parties should be getting behind.
Our pledges draw from their work.
High Level Pledges
- Peace in Palestine: Ceasefire, sanction Israel, and a state for the Palestinians.
- Discrimination Ended: Root out Islamophobia and discrimination across our healthcare, education, political, media, employment and justice systems.
- Investment to end Inequities: Substantial increase in funding and investment for the NHS, local businesses, home building and home ownership in the 10% poorest constituencies in the UK.
Detailed Pledges
Palestine
- Ceasefire
- Recognition of the State of Palestine
- Lifting the siege and occupation of Gaza
- Strengthening laws barring bilateral British trade with Settlements
- Denying visas to Israeli politicians and militants involved in settlement expansion
- Sanctions on all companies named by the UN as operating in occupied territories?
Education
- Issuance of Department for Education guidance on the protection of the right of all students to wear religious symbols and observe obligatory religious rituals such as prayer, including Friday prayers.
- Issuance of Department for Education guidance to schools and academies reflecting that cultural and religious sensitivity must be taken into account when discussing LGBT matters, particularly by schools in areas where the majority of the community are from a religious background. This should include proactive and meaningful parental consultation, particularly concerning issues such as the teaching of RSE.
Security & Counter-Terror
1. Commit to rejecting the recommendations of the Shawcross Review of PREVENT and instead implementing the recommendations of the People’s Review of PREVENT and engaging with the eventual recommendations of the Independent Commission on UK Counter-Terrorism Law, Policy, and Practice. (CPF Pledge)
2. Remove the divisive “extremism” definition and for government to constructively engage with grassroots Muslim organisations enjoying popular support.
Media
Commit to the full implementation of the Royal Charter system and supporting amendments to the Online Safety Bill ensuring that i) the exemption for comments sections is removed; ii) recognised news publishers are defined as only those regulated by a recognised regulator under the Royal Charter system; iii) the online safety objectives are updated to include explicit protection for human rights; and iv) the powers of the Secretary of State to direct Ofcom are removed, with the singular exception of matters relating to national security. (CPF Pledge)
Islamophobia & Discrimination
- The adoption of the APPG on British Muslims’ definition of Islamophobia. (CPF Pledge)
- A review into the implementation of the Public Sector Equality Duty
Healthcare
- Increase council and public health funding for the 10% most deprived areas in the country to finally address systemic and chronic health inequities as detailed in the Marmot Review and revisited by the Health Foundation 10 year later.
- Commission research on structural inequalities faced by faith communities in accessing healthcare. (CPF Pledge)
Finance & Investment
- Deliver the pledged Alternative Student Finance Product.
- Ensure sharia-compliant pensions are available in all workplaces.
- Ensure insurance premiums do not discriminate against ethnic minorities.
- Commit 7% of the LGPS and other public sector pension pots to ethical and sharia-compliant investments and fund managers, reflecting the Muslim population and ESG goals.
Further detail on pledges here.
Employment
Implement a monitoring programme to introduce meaningful action plans aimed at tackling racial, religious, and disability based discrimination at all levels of recruitment, retention, and promotion, particularly concerning the structural inequalities faced by Muslim women. (CPF Pledge)
Political Participation
- Reject the Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill and other legislation designed to stifle legitimate activism in support of Uyghurs, Palestinians, Kashmiris, and other oppressed peoples. (CPF Pledge)
- Commit to protecting the human right to protest free of hindrance, crackdown, or unfair restriction.
- Remove the archaic “spiritual influence” offence from statute.
Policing & Justice
Commit to addressing structural and institutional Islamophobia, misogyny, and racism within policing and the justice system, including the disproportionate application of policing powers on minority communities; accurately recording hate crime; and increasing diversity and cultural sensitivity across the justice system, including through mandatory unconscious bias training. (CPF Pledge)