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‘Shared Vision – Your Decision’: Creative Islam seeks your support

Please vote for Creative Islam! – a project from the local libraries as part of Living in Harmony!

WHAT IS SHARED VISION – YOUR DECISION?

Police Scotland, the City of Edinburgh Council and The Scottish Government have made a total of £40,000 available as part of their ongoing commitment to addressing Islamophobia across Edinburgh.

Shared Vision – Your Decision’ is an Edinburgh based initiative which enables local people to decide how public money is spent in eradicating Islamophobia and associated prejudice behaviour.

We understand that Islamophobic behaviour also effects other faith communities and have included projects which also work with these communities.

This type of funding allocation is known as Participatory Budgeting (see below).

Between 10 November and 12 December individuals and groups submitted applications to receive up to £5,000 worth of funding. Potential projects have been selected – and now it’s up to YOU! Voting opened on 28 January and will close on Monday 13 February.

Find out more about ‘Shared Vision – Your Decision’ by reading the information booklet (below)

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Islamophobia participatory budgeting: ELREC appeal

Please VOTE for ELREC!

Police in Edinburgh and the City of Edinburgh Council are inviting people to vote for projects designed to create a city free from Islamophobia. Voting is open now and closes at 12 noon on Monday 13th February 2017. 

ELREC has applied for funding to ‘Shared Vision – Your Decision’ – Islamophobia Edinburgh project. We have two projects: one, in partnership with Edinburgh College, focuses on supporting young people and youth workers in tacking islamophobia; the other one aims to organise 4 community events to raise awareness on islamophobia and to address misconceptions on Islam and Muslim people.

You can vote online at https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/GQQS75Z or at your local library. You can vote for up to five projects.

Please spread the voice among all your contacts and friends and ask them to vote for ELREC’s two projects!

Thank you.

Foysol

Foysol Choudhury MBE

Chair, Edinburgh and Lothians Regional Equality Council, 14 Forth Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3LH

(T) 0131 556 0441   (E) admin@elrec.org.uk  (W) www.elrec.org.uk

£eith Decides – again!

leith-decides

From this weekend, people in the wider Leith area will be asked to decide how more than £44,000 of City of Edinburgh Council funding should be spent on projects that benefit their local community – and for the first time voters will be able to cast their vote online from Saturday 8 October until Saturday 22 October 2016. Continue reading £eith Decides – again!