Muslim Community Helpline http://muslimcommunityhelpline.org.uk Serving the UK Muslim community Mon, 14 May 2012 17:19:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 PRE-MARRIAGE ADVICE http://muslimcommunityhelpline.org.uk/2012/03/pre-marriage-advice/ http://muslimcommunityhelpline.org.uk/2012/03/pre-marriage-advice/#comments Sat, 03 Mar 2012 06:46:52 +0000 ssheriff http://muslimcommunityhelpline.org.uk/?p=129 In this month’s Meeting Point for new muslims sent from the Islamic Foundation there is an excellent article ’10 Ways to Avoid Marrying theWrong Person’.
Just to give you an idea, here are the headings.
 
1.  Do not marry ‘a potential’
2.  Choose Character over Chemistry
3.  Do not neglect the emotional needs of your partner
4.  Avoid opposing life plans
5.  Avoid pre-marital sexual/physical activity
6.  Avoid lack of emotional connection
7.  Pay attention to your own emotional anxiety
8.  Beware of lack of openness in your partner
9.  Beware of avoiding personal responsibility
10. Watch out for lack of emotional health and availability in your potential partner
 
Each heading gives a longer explanation.
 
]]> http://muslimcommunityhelpline.org.uk/2012/03/pre-marriage-advice/feed/ 0 The Future of Voluntary & Community Action http://muslimcommunityhelpline.org.uk/2010/07/july9/ http://muslimcommunityhelpline.org.uk/2010/07/july9/#comments Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:30:08 +0000 Webmaster http://muslimcommunityhelpline.org.uk/?p=82 Whether you’re frustrated, worried, jaded, angry, isolated, passionate, optimistic, traumatised or inspired, or whether you just want a day having real conversations with people about what matters to you and eating high quality biscuits…

This event will be an open space meeting for voluntary sector workers and volunteers, community activists and interested people to explore anything they like about their experiences, their current concerns and their hopes for the future. There will be opportunities to make connections and feed into other research groups about specific issues.

This event is completely free of charge. Booking is essential and bookings will be accepted on a first come first served basis. For more information about the day:

The Future of Voluntary & Community Action

An independently facilitated open space event for infrastructure workers, frontline workers, funders, volunteers, policy makers, trustees, and anyone else that’s interested….

10.30 – 16.30, Friday 9th July 2010

St Martin in the Fields, Trafalgar Square

  • How are you feeling about working in the voluntary and/or community sector?
  • How do you feel about supporting and developing voluntary & community action?
  • How are you dealing with political and organisational change?
  • How does the future of voluntary and community action look to you?

This event is being jointly organised by the STAN (Second Tier Advisors Network) project at London Voluntary Service Council (LVSC) and the National Coalition for Independent Action (NCIA). LVSC is a registered charity no. 276886 and a registered company no. 1395546.

For more information see www.lvsc.org.uk NCIA is an alliance of indvividuals and organisations. To find out more see www.independentaction.net

Website: http://july9.wordpress.com | Email: gemma@lvsc.org.uk | Call: 020 3349 8919

Come and talk to us! Bring your friends and colleagues, share your thoughts and feelings with us and be part of the debate!

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