The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) is launching a capacity building programme to improve the sustainability of mosques and Muslim charities in the United Kingdom over a period of six months.
In making this announcement, MCB Secretary General Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari said the capacity building programme was part of its commitment to improve the sustainability of Mosques and Muslim organisations in the United Kingdom.
According to Dr Bari, the programme will target 100 medium sized mosques and Muslim organisations from across the country to empower and capacity-build within a year. It will aim at putting them firmly on the road to achieve their tasks better in everything they do.
"There are a good number of successful mosques and their experience would enhance this programme. MCB will aim to work through key regional organisations and its affiliate groups to ensure that there is long term support to build the capacity of local Muslim communities to deliver lasting benefit."
Explaining the overall objectives of the programme, he said those were to equip organisations with improved capacity so that they are able to achieve their full potential, provide training and make available flow of information to empower them so that they were able to aim for excellence without outside support, enable the organisations to access information about funds and resources available and procedures of applying for them, help them to gain sufficient knowledge and skills to play the role of a resource for other Muslim organisations in their area.
Dr Bari further said with over 2,000 mosques and Muslim Organisations in the UK, the success of the programme would be judged on the skills developed by individuals taking part in the training and how they were able to utilise those skills to improve the performance of their own organisation and of other Muslim groups in their region.