- Our Vision is to, create a focal point for a wide range of vital community support services to promote Islam, learning, capacity building, cultural awareness, economic regeneration, and community cohesion.
Main Areas of Services will include:- Spiritual Welfare • Social Welfare • Islamic Education • Capacity Building & Training • Cultural Welfare • Open Learning • Employment & Business support • Youth Welfare • Networking & Public Relations • Students Service.
Summary of services
Religious worship
Education; Teaching and Arabic School
Training
Social gatherings
Cultural activities
Festivities
Sport activities and play schemes
Support, advice, and translation
Marriage registration
Community meetings
Trips and excursions
Ramadan activities
Religious worship:
Congregational prayers, Ramadan night daily prayers, Fridays and Eid's
prayers, speech and ceremony.
Education & Teaching:
- Weekend School, 2 days a week, Saturdays and Sundays for 8 hours a week for
children from age 5 to 16 years.
- Open classes Tuesday - Thursday: 5-7 pm.
- English Language (Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays).
Training:
- Sewing class once a week on Fridays from 10.30am to 12.30pm.
- Computer training for adults once a week (six weeks course).
Open debate & consultation:
Sunday and Tuesday evening for 2.00 hours.
Family & social gathering:
Weekly on Saturday's evening to get families together and discuss various issues
regarding, religion, health, education and culture.
Advice & Consultation:
The centre provides confidential and friendly advice and counselling for people
having problems, helping them in solving their problems.
Translation and clerical support:
This service is for people whose first language is not English and for those who
are illiterate, (helping in felling forms, etc).
Ramadan activities:
The centre organises social and cultural activities on a daily basis over the whole
month of Ramadan.
The centre provides a daily meal for about one hundred and fifty people.
Eids celebration:
The centre organises two big parties to celebrate the two Islamic Eids. More than
four hundred people enjoy themselves in each celebration.
The centre organise a dinner on Eid's day evening for everybody, children are
given presents and sweet.
Marriages:
The centre is a registered marriage office. The wedding
ceremony takes place in the centre as well.
Harassment and racial issues:
The centre provides support and guidance to people suffering from racial
harassment and is a member of the Middlesbrough Racial Harassment Multi-
Agency Forum.
Support for refugees & students from overseas:
- The centre provides support and material help to refugees waiting to resolve
their situation.
- The centre provides several types of help and offer free services to overseas
students in Middlesbrough, both at the University of Teesside and the Teesside
College.
Other Services:
The centre encourages mutual relations between people regardless of social or
cultural background. Many organisations such as Police, scouts, schools, BBC
radio Cleveland, researchers and others visit the centre.