Active Change Foundation - Revision history

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Projects

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External resources

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Funders and Partners

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People

David at 13:59, 18 December 2018

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 ACF was registered as a charity on 19 September 2008.
 ==Activities==
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 ==People==
 *Founders: [[Hanif Qadir]] | [[Mike Jervis]]<ref name="about"/>
-[[Lesley Simm]] - CEO from 2008-? | [[Chris Donnelly]] - Director 2008-17 | [[Dan Lafayeedny]] - Director 2014-17 | [[David Gilbertson]] - Director 2015-17
+[[Lesley Simm]] - CEO from 2008-? | [[Chris Donnelly]] - Director 2008-17 | [[Dan Lafayeedny]] - Director 2014-17 | [[David Gilbertson]] - Director 2015-17.
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 ==Resources==
 ===Projects===

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 ==Resources==
 ===Projects===
-*[[Young Leaders Programme]]
+*[[Young Leaders Programme]] Aimed at 16–18-year-olds, the programme developed skills in critical thinking, public speaking and conflict resolution to help participants challenge extremist narratives.
 *[[Notinmyname|#Notinmyname]] - social media campaign against ISIS from September 2014 <ref> [http://www.rappler.com/world/regions/europe/69866-notinmyname-muslims-social-media-isis #notinmyname: Muslims use social media to fight ISIS], </ref>
 ===Funders and Partners===

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 *Partners:  [[Encompass]] | [[Tesco]] | [[Twitter]] | [[University of East Anglia]] | [[Home Office]] | [[London Probation Trust]] | [[Metropolitan Police]] | [[Embassy of the United States of America, London]] | [[RICU]] | [[Quest Leadership Development]]
 ==External resources==
 *Co-founder Hanif Qadir is an interviewee in 'Changing Jihadi Minds' on BBC Radio 4's ''The Report'' [Reporter John Ware].

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 *Co-founder Hanif Qadir is an interviewee in 'Changing Jihadi Minds' on BBC Radio 4's ''The Report'' [Reporter John Ware].
 *Co-founder Mike Jervis appears in Channel Four documentary as a de-radicalisation expert in '''My Son the Jihadi''' in October 2015.  <ref> Dir: Peter Beard; Exec Prod: Brian Woods; Prod Co: True Vision Productions </ref>
 ==Notes==
 <references/>
 [[Category:Charities]][[Category:Counter-Terrorism]]

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 ===Funders and Partners===
-*Funders: [[Home Office]]  | [[Redbridge Council]] | [[Walthamstow Council]]
+*Funders: [[Home Office]]  | [[Redbridge Council]] | [[Waltham Forest Council]] | [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]] | [[Metropolitan Police]] | [[SA Law Chambers]] | [[Google]] | [[Twitter]] | [[Slough Borough Council]] | [[London Borough of Islington]] | [[City of Cardiff Council]] | [[London Borough of Tower Hamlets]] | [[London Borough of Wandsworth]] | [[Crawley Borough Council]] | [[Brighton and Hove City Council]] | [[Birmingham City Council]] | [[London Borough of Brent]]
 *Partners:  [[Encompass]] | [[Tesco]] | [[Twitter]] | [[University of East Anglia]] | [[Home Office]] | [[London Probation Trust]] | [[Metropolitan Police]] | [[Embassy of the United States of America, London]] | [[RICU]] | [[Quest Leadership Development]]

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	ACF adopted a new memorandum of association on 15 April 2008 which 'deleted' in its 'entirety' the existing Memorandum and Articles of Association.<ref>Companies House [https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/05964653/filing-history?page=3 Active Change Foundation]. Accessed 18 December 2018.</ref> Documents at Companies House show that the meeting to pass the resolution to approve the memorandum took place on 10 January 2008 at 10am at the offices of [[Forward Thinking]] the charity associated with [[Oliver McTernan]]. The document was signed by [[David Gilbertson]] who was listed as a 'Senior Associate Fellow, [[United Kingdom Defence Academy]], (Consultant/Advisor to ACF), for and on behalf of Hanif Qadir, Director'.<ref>Active Change Foundation [https://document-api-images-prod.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/docs/aRuHdBUGiSGyzuo4RJoW6SkwCF4HCVPvXg7BfqednOk/application-pdf?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Credential=ASIAWRGBDBV3EXBY4X5M%2F20181218%2Feu-west-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20181218T115919Z&X-Amz-Expires=60&X-Amz-Security-Token=FQoGZXIvYXdzECEaDN4wlbS%2BUghgf5gYSCK3A3B4iyoYDgUAjjHTui3N34X3UUZNQhKvQlXsuy9KcikpWweTZ7Vkbc7WQMgIcO5fBo1MQlf%2B8Ik7GPH0oO88D33GRrrZYSuGAwARskI4kea%2FnN%2BWnQ3XwcDZvO8kSZ6%2FW81seybjthLuhC07GgyeAZZw8f4lDeen8VG7upj%2Fmbj3fyNkvOVqTUvN94enuzUIuKYGaFHFAMcY7HGrsBs8KQGzAtQkgJvp2ihuf1sCncXRlqlr6P0KrE7RDaWm69j1MCAHXB3ZgZVP49LdXOHx3w2Ik0kFx4LdkmqG5FH3ZnIXpdhW6wsQv7Nyc2T5jmhLY8qLBuuiHdd%2B8ge2ERP4%2B4aW%2FmgBVJ3KcAlLfdoDyKH0R5WrzDfvrmeo8%2FOqNiiH8GnIzEggZrbmz5tm%2FdVpgf8uhm7ql1oV9GHdV7S9PUtKlb7DIwS6IE40e3%2B%2FYl9IdlStP%2F4F%2Ba2XQadyGuDpJYX0FNFbjy0JE4HnZYGCzIojeaairzxygGnkmaxoKD8BBOyIGOmPLwIFUhoe00l0QWkt7uczNkkgAAMOTGdEYFxhkpM0K8GOJSBjwZ%2FyaupK2boSDrfwJusog7ji4AU%3D&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=207e578dad5393eb8c0e1252fc083470dd5f85ae88bd2e2ee7971c5db609bc38 Resolution of adoption of Memorandum of Association], Companies House 15 Apr 2008</ref>		ACF adopted a new memorandum of association on 15 April 2008 which 'deleted' in its 'entirety' the existing Memorandum and Articles of Association.<ref>Companies House [https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/05964653/filing-history?page=3 Active Change Foundation]. Accessed 18 December 2018.</ref> Documents at Companies House show that the meeting to pass the resolution to approve the memorandum took place on 10 January 2008 at 10am at the offices of [[Forward Thinking]] the charity associated with [[Oliver McTernan]]. The document was signed by [[David Gilbertson]] who was listed as a 'Senior Associate Fellow, [[United Kingdom Defence Academy]], (Consultant/Advisor to ACF), for and on behalf of Hanif Qadir, Director'.<ref>Active Change Foundation [https://document-api-images-prod.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/docs/aRuHdBUGiSGyzuo4RJoW6SkwCF4HCVPvXg7BfqednOk/application-pdf?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Credential=ASIAWRGBDBV3EXBY4X5M%2F20181218%2Feu-west-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20181218T115919Z&X-Amz-Expires=60&X-Amz-Security-Token=FQoGZXIvYXdzECEaDN4wlbS%2BUghgf5gYSCK3A3B4iyoYDgUAjjHTui3N34X3UUZNQhKvQlXsuy9KcikpWweTZ7Vkbc7WQMgIcO5fBo1MQlf%2B8Ik7GPH0oO88D33GRrrZYSuGAwARskI4kea%2FnN%2BWnQ3XwcDZvO8kSZ6%2FW81seybjthLuhC07GgyeAZZw8f4lDeen8VG7upj%2Fmbj3fyNkvOVqTUvN94enuzUIuKYGaFHFAMcY7HGrsBs8KQGzAtQkgJvp2ihuf1sCncXRlqlr6P0KrE7RDaWm69j1MCAHXB3ZgZVP49LdXOHx3w2Ik0kFx4LdkmqG5FH3ZnIXpdhW6wsQv7Nyc2T5jmhLY8qLBuuiHdd%2B8ge2ERP4%2B4aW%2FmgBVJ3KcAlLfdoDyKH0R5WrzDfvrmeo8%2FOqNiiH8GnIzEggZrbmz5tm%2FdVpgf8uhm7ql1oV9GHdV7S9PUtKlb7DIwS6IE40e3%2B%2FYl9IdlStP%2F4F%2Ba2XQadyGuDpJYX0FNFbjy0JE4HnZYGCzIojeaairzxygGnkmaxoKD8BBOyIGOmPLwIFUhoe00l0QWkt7uczNkkgAAMOTGdEYFxhkpM0K8GOJSBjwZ%2FyaupK2boSDrfwJusog7ji4AU%3D&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=207e578dad5393eb8c0e1252fc083470dd5f85ae88bd2e2ee7971c5db609bc38 Resolution of adoption of Memorandum of Association], Companies House 15 Apr 2008</ref>
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 The [[Active Change Foundation]] is a UK registered charity and company.  It focuses on 'preventing radicalization' which it calls 'the under-pinning foundation of our work'.<ref name="about">Active Change Foundation [http://www.activechangefoundation.org/about-us/ bout Us]. Accessed 26 December 2015.</ref>  'We are fighting', notes the ACF website, 'an ideology, and one that must be fought in the hearts and minds of every individual person'.<ref name="about"/>
-ACF was incorporated on 12 October 2006 and adopted a memorandum of association on 15 April 2008.<ref>Companies House [https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/05964653/filing-history?page=3 Active Change Foundation]. Accessed 18 December 2018.</ref>
+ACF was incorporated on 12 October 2006 appointing [[Shereen Qadir]],  [[Nafees Ali]] and [[Mohammod Yunus]] as directors.  The form was witnessed by [[Hanif Qadir]].
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	The [[Active Change Foundation]] is a UK registered charity and company. It focuses on 'preventing radicalization' which it calls 'the under-pinning foundation of our work'.<ref name="about">Active Change Foundation [http://www.activechangefoundation.org/about-us/ bout Us]. Accessed 26 December 2015.</ref> 'We are fighting', notes the ACF website, 'an ideology, and one that must be fought in the hearts and minds of every individual person'.<ref name="about"/>		The [[Active Change Foundation]] is a UK registered charity and company. It focuses on 'preventing radicalization' which it calls 'the under-pinning foundation of our work'.<ref name="about">Active Change Foundation [http://www.activechangefoundation.org/about-us/ bout Us]. Accessed 26 December 2015.</ref> 'We are fighting', notes the ACF website, 'an ideology, and one that must be fought in the hearts and minds of every individual person'.<ref name="about"/>
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		+	ACF was incorporated on 12 October 2006 and adopted a memorandum of association on 15 April 2008.<ref>Companies House [https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/05964653/filing-history?page=3 Active Change Foundation]. Accessed 18 December 2018.</ref>
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		+	According to a declassified US diplomatic cable ACF was visited by US government officials (EUR Senior Advisor for Muslim Engagement [[Farah Pandith]] and S/P Member [[Jared Cohen]]) on 9 October 2007, shortly after it had been founded.<ref name="Guard">[https://www.theguardian.com/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/127202 SUBJECT: EUR SENIOR ADVISOR PANDITH AND S/P ADVISOR COHEN'S VISIT TO THE UK, OCTOBER 9-14, 2007] Thursday, 25 October 2007, 16:38 C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 05 LONDON 004045, SIPDIS EO 12958 DECL: 10/17/2017 - TAGS PGOV, PREL, KISL, PTER, SCUL, UK, REF: LONDON 4030 Classified By: DCM Richard LeBaron for reasons 1.4 b, d. Published as US embassy cables: A quickfire tour of Muslim Britain, The Guardian, 13 December 2010.</ref>
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		+	:13. (SBU) Pandith and Cohen attended three events specifically aimed at hearing the concerns of Muslim youth in London. On October 9 they traveled to the East London neighborhood of Waltham Forest, a largely Muslim area that is plagued by urban problems including drugs, youth gangs, violence (three young people were shot close to the meeting site that same evening), and a significant radical Muslim presence. There they met with young Muslims, journalists, and community leaders, including the Mayor of Waltham Forest and two Borough Councillors, under the auspices of the Active Change Foundation (ACF), a recently-launched leadership training program targeted at Muslim youth in deprived areas of East London. The ACF had just finished recruiting its first class of young men and women to participate in the ACF's inaugural leadership training course. During the meeting, the young people present repeated several times to Pandith and Cohen that they want the skills and the opportunities to be able to represent their views to the media and to decision makers. Although the journalists kept interjecting foreign policy issues such as Iraq and Israel/Palestine, the young people stressed that while those issues might be of some concern, the real issues in their lives are jobs, education, and empowerment. After a lively exchange, the ACF students presented a grant application for Embassy consideration, and both sides pledged that the link forged that evening would be maintained.