Faith Associates

Faith Associates 'was set up in 2004 as a non-theological consultancy to meet the needs of ethnic minority faith-based communities.' It says it works 'with agencies that are concerned with business, education and government at local, regional, national and international levels.'

Faith Associates is named as a provider of services in relation to the Prevent strategy by the OSCT in a leaked document dated March 2015.

Leaked document showing relationship between Breakthrough Media (and thus with RICU) of a range of allegedly independent civil society groups including Active Change Foundation, Anti-Tribalism Movement, FAST, FIDA Management, FMO, Imams Online, Inspire, JAN Trust, JIMAS, New Horizons, Plain Islam, Tiger Legends, Tim Parry Jonathan Ball Foundation for Peace, Upstanding Neighbourhoods

Imams Online - Slide from leaked Breakthrough Media presentation, 2015.

Imams Online - Slide from leaked Breakthrough Media presentation, 2015.

People

• Qari Asim - Senior Contributing Editor
• Editor in Chief Shaukat Warraich CEO of Faith Associates, Founder and Chief Editor of Imams Online (IOL). He is also the Chief editor of the pioneering Mosque and Madrassah Quarterly.
• Managing Editor Kaashif Awan Has been working at Faith Associates since 2014. Alongside the Editor in Chief, he is jointly responsible for the editorial direction and strategy of Imams Online.
• Contributing Editor Haroon Sidat A full time Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK at Cardiff University.
• Contributing Editor Nadeem Ashfaq is the Co-founder of the Light Foundation and Vice-Chair of the Preston Faith Forum.

Related

• Imams Online - run by the CEO of Faith Associates Shaukat Warraich (amongst others)

Resources

• Prevent Strategy - Local Delivery Best Practice Catalogue searchable version.
• David Miller and Narzanin Massoumi The Home Office, RICU and Muslim civil society groups: Briefing for the Home Affairs Select Committee Countering extremism inquiry 10 June 2016.