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. The OSCT (now renamed the Homeland Security Group) is part of the British intelligence apparatus and Faith Associates is, therefore, an asset of British intelligence.

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.
• Project Support Saleha Islam

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.