Active Change Foundation
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'.[1] 'We are fighting', notes the ACF website, 'an ideology, and one that must be fought in the hearts and minds of every individual person'.[1]
People
- Founders: Hanif Qadir | Mike Jervis[1]
Lesley Simm - CEO circa 2010 | Chris Donnelly - Director 2008-17 | Dan Lafayeedny - Director 2014-17 | David Gilbertson - Director 2015-17
Resources
Projects
- Young Leaders Programme
- #Notinmyname - social media campaign against ISIS from September 2014 [2]
Funders and Partners
- Funders: Home Office | Redbridge Council | Walthamstow Council
- 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].
- Co-founder Mike Jervis appears in Channel Four documentary as a de-radicalisation expert in My Son the Jihadi in October 2015. [3]
