Volume 3 Issue 3 19th January 2012
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Inside this issue:
MINAB 15 Billion Family Retreat Barefoot Institute Women's Multi Sports Cake International Azhar Academy Al Barakah Academy Muslim Education
Special points of interest
GrillFellas Fundraiser Fiqh and Aqida Muslim Identity Sisters Identity Diseases of the Heart Qiraat and Naat Conference What path will you choose? Mighty Mega Club The King of Kings The anatomy of love The Kufiyeh Project Islamic Studies
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MINAB AGM and Elections: 4th March 2012 All members are requested to appoint their delegates to the General Council on the prescribed forms already sent but they must do so before the 5PM on 27 January 2012. Those members who have previously notified MINAB Election Commissioner of their appointed delegates will not need to notify him again unless any member wishes to make changes to the appointed delegates. If any member needs a delegate appointment form, please call the MINAB office on 0208 993 7141. In appointing delegates the members must bear in mind that the Constitution requires that at least 20% of the Executive Board should be females and, therefore unless females are appointed as delegates to the General Council the Constitutional requirement is unlikely to be met. Before appointing delegates or confirming the appointment of delegates previously made, members must make sure that the appointed delegate/s will attend the AGM as proxy vote is not permitted and subsequent change of a nominated delegate is allowed only for exceptional reasons. The Founding members should file the names of their four appointed members each before 5PM on 27 January 2012 too. If any or all of them wish to retain the names previously submitted, then those will be their appointed members. By way of reminder at least one of the appointed four members from each Founding member must be a female. The members shall be sent a collated list of all the appointed delegates by 3 February 2012. Members shall be asked to nominate no more than two delegates from the list of the appointed delegates as candidates for election to the Executive Board and the Board of Trustees. There is no requirement for a member to nominate persons for election but if they do they must do so on the prescribed form which they will have received with the election papers. Again previously nominated delegates will not need to be nominated again. In nominating persons to the Executive Board and the Board of Trustees, members must bear in mind the importance of nominating females. Also nominations can only be made from the list of appointed delegates and a member may nominate any person/s from the list. When nominating a person for election, the member must ensure that the person nominated has given consent to the nomination; undertakes to attend the AGM and also undertakes to send his/her profile consisting of no more than 200 words to the MINAB Election Office. Nomination forms must be returned by 17 February 2012. The MINAB Election office shall collate the list of nominated candidates and send these where possible with profiles of the candidates to every member by 23 February 2012. When the General Council meets on 4 March 2012, it shall first elect the Executive Board consisting of 34 members – 6 of whom shall be from the Shia communities and 28 from the Sunni communities with females from both being no less than 10 in all. In the event of there being more candidates than numbers given here-in-before, secret ballot will take place with each
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eligible person in attendance having the right to vote. The Executive Board will then meet to elect Trustees (Office Bearers) – the Chair, Secretary and Treasurer. Candidates for these posts are required to be from those persons who have been elected to the Executive Board and not from those who are on the Board as nominated members from the Founding members. Again all contests will be resolved by secret ballot. The Executive Board shall also appoint four Vice Chairs – one from each of the nominated members from each of the Founding member organisations. These four together with the three elected office bearers form the Board of Trustees of MINAB The election process of the MINAB is being conducted and supervised by Judge Khurshid Drabu CBE who is the Election Commissioner appointed by the Board of Trustees and who carried out the same role when MINAB was founded in 2009. Decisions made by the Election Commissioner are final and binding.
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Mighty Mega Club A FREE Saturday morning club for disabled children & their families 10am – 12pm @ Discover Children’s Story Centre, 383 – 387 Stratford High Street
Every week FREE access to Discover’s multi-sensory indoor and outdoor play spaces. o 10am – 11am Every week exclusive access to the centre for disabled children. o 11am – 12pm Each week take part in different storytelling and art & craft activities
To book onto any session ring Discover on 020 8536 5555 or email bookings@discover.org.uk
Sat 21st Jan: Masks & Puppets – Create your own marvellous masks and fantastic puppets to take home and then join in with interactive storytelling with our Story Builders. Sat 28th Jan: Morris the Mankiest Monster – Listen to this revolting story, then explore lots of different sensory materials (including goo, glitter & feathers) as you create your own monster pot of slime…. Sat 4th Feb: Where the Wild Things are – Musical storytelling with Story Builder Abiola. Dance, sing and explore different musical instruments. Sat 11th Feb: The Mighty Time Machine – Interactive musical fun with musician Gary Day. A room in Discover is transformed into the ‘Musical Time Machine’ filled with buttons, lights and sounds. Grab the controls and go on your own adventure….. Sat 18th Feb: The Monster who Ate Darkness – What would you do if you found a monster under your bed? Explore this beautiful story by Joyce Dunbar and then work with ace story builder Abiola to create your own musical stories. Sat 25th Feb: London Children’s Book Swap – Bored of the children’s books you’ve read over and over again? Bring them along to our Book Swap Tea Party and exchange your old stories for new exciting ones.
Activities are aimed at children aged 5 – 11 but we can accommodate older children & young people – so please get in touch if you do work with older children. Best wishes, Zoe Kilb Education Officer 020 8536 5548 www.discover.org.uk Discover, 383-387 High Street, Stratford, London, E15 4QZ
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CAKE INTERNATIONAL EXPANDS TO EXCEL LONDON
Friday 27th – Sunday 29th April, 2012 Leading event organiser ICHF Ltd are expanding their highly successful Cake International show to ExCeL in London Docklands for the first time from the 27th – 29th April 2012. This fantastic show will be bringing the best in cake decorating and baking to the London region for the first time, following this year’s record breaking show at the NEC. Visitors can expect to see the very latest cutting edge products and techniques from a huge variety of exhibitors from across the UK and abroad. Other features will include a bakery theatre with top tips and advice from the experts, college displays and lively demonstrations in the Cake Decorators Kitchen - showing all the latest trends and ideas in sugarcraft and cake decoration. Visitors can take part in the Competition Classes and showcase their talents and imagination. With a selection of classes there will be something for everyone, including novice and junior classes for anyone under the age of 18. Visitors from across the globe came along to the 2011 Cake International show at the NEC from as far afield as Peru, America, Korea, France and Portugal. The show saw record number of visitors with an increase of 32% on the previous record year in 2010. Show organiser Simon Burns from ICHF Events said, “Following the success of our Cake International show at the NEC we are excited to announce that we will also be taking this show to ExCeL in London Docklands from the 27 – 29 April 2012. We have seen our visitor numbers at Cake International at the NEC dramatically increase by 72% in the last two years and we hope that this can be echoed at ExCeL. The effect of the revival in home baking can clearly be seen and it is from the popularity of this that we wanted to extend our events calendar to include a Cake Decorating and Baking show in London.” Cake International will also return to the Birmingham NEC from the 9 – 11 November 2012 with Crafts for Christmas, Hobbycrafts and Art Materials Live running alongside it from the 8 – 11 November 2012. ICHF Ltd is also launching their popular Creative Stitches / Hobbycrafts shows at Glow, Bluewater Events Centre, Kent, from 2nd to 5th February 2012. Cake International – ExCeL, London 27 – 29 April, 2012 Open 09.30-17.30 (Sunday 17.00) Tickets Prices: TBC Buy tickets on-line at www.ichf.co.uk
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