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FAST says to use 'professionally trained staff' to provide help and advice to 'vulnerable families and individuals', though it is not clear what specific activities FAST does to offer this support. | FAST says to use 'professionally trained staff' to provide help and advice to 'vulnerable families and individuals', though it is not clear what specific activities FAST does to offer this support. | ||
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FAST is an independent organisation and we guarantee that everything that is discussed with us in groups, or on a one-to-one basis is 100% confidential. | FAST is an independent organisation and we guarantee that everything that is discussed with us in groups, or on a one-to-one basis is 100% confidential. | ||
Revision as of 10:02, 16 January 2017
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Families Against Stress and Trauma (FAST) describes itself as an 'independent' 'UK based organisation providing support to vulnerable families and individuals', designed to discourage young people from travelling to Syria, Iraq or being radicalised. [1] The organisation was set up in 2007, but registered at Companies House in May 2009.
The organisation's website states it recieves camapign funding from a range of sources, including the Home Office. [2]
Activities
FAST says to use 'professionally trained staff' to provide help and advice to 'vulnerable families and individuals', though it is not clear what specific activities FAST does to offer this support.
FAST does produce a number of campaigning and informational videos, predominantly on the effects and signs of radicalisation. [3]
FAST is an independent organisation and we guarantee that everything that is discussed with us in groups, or on a one-to-one basis is 100% confidential.
Product of the Home Office
In July 2014, former home secretary Theresa May publicly endorsed the 'Families Matter' campaign led by FAST. [4]
An official document uncovered by Powerbase in 2016 (Prevent Strategy - Local Delivery Best Practice Catalogue) and produced by the Office of Security and Counter Terrorism in the UK Home Office revealed that FAST had received undisclosed funding from the Research Information and Communication Unit (RCIU), under the Prevent programme.
The document label FAST part of the so called 'national counter narrative', which appear to acknowledge the organisation was part of a British government covert propaganda strategy and directed by the Home Office’s strategic communications agency.
People
- Saleha-Begum Jaffer - Director, May 2009-
Jaffer is registered at Companies House as a former 'Ambassador for Peace' and director of the organisation Universal Peace Foundation UK (UPF). [5] She began this role in June 2008 and resigned in June 2013, the year before it is reported the RICU started funding Breakthrough Media to produce campaign videos for FAST.
In FAST's 2014 register of interest deceleration, she was listed as a 'vocational employee' at the Office of Security and Counter-Terrorism (OSCT), raising further questions about the organisation's independence.
- Anees Fatima Ayub - Director, October 2009-
- Margaret Calista Jarrett - Director, October 2009-
- Dr Smarajit Roy - Director, March 2010-
Former
- Cecilie Fortune - Director (resigned), July 2009-September 2015
- Fouzia Naz Razvi - Director (resigned), August 2009-September 2011
Contact details
- Address:
- Silverstone & Co, First Floor,
- 9 Tabernacle Court, 16-28 Tabernacle Street,
- London, England,
- EC2A 4DD
Notes
- ↑ FAST Home page, FAST website, accessed 6 January 2017.
- ↑ About us, FAST website, accessed 16 January 2017.
- ↑ [FAST Families Against Stress and Trauma], YouTube, accessed 16 January 2017.
- ↑ Home Secretary supports launch of ‘Families Matter’ campaign, GOV.uk, 21 July 2014, accessed 5 January 2017.
- ↑ Saleha-Begum Jaffer, Companies House, accessed 16 January 2017.
