With a reputation for breaking down barriers, New Horizons in British Islam invited an "ex-Muslim" to speak at the British Islam Conference 2018 for the very first time.  Imtiaz Shams, the founder of the organisation Faith to Faithless,...

On the 9th February 2018 New Horizons in British Islam made history by becoming the first Muslim charity to host a comedy night at the historic Leicester Comedy Festival.  In the run up, our Trustee Rabiha Hannan was featured on BBC Radio...

Following the success of the Great Get Together, New Horizons in British Islam worked with a group of young Muslims in Blackburn and Leicester to take part in the Great Christmas Get Together. It is a legacy of the murdered MP Jo Cox who said we...

10th October 2017 was World Mental Health Day. As part of it we were approached by Saima Majid from Derby who needed New Horizons in British Islam's help in promoting her t-shirt campaign. Saima wanted to raise awareness of mental illnesses after...

The Independent picked up our Great Get Together campaign bringing together young British Muslims and Jews across the country to remember what we all have in common. Our video ended up on their Facebook page and was viewed more than...

As part of the Great Get Together weekend, to mark the one year anniversary of murdered politician Jo Cox, New Horizons in British Islam brought together young British Muslims and Jews to get to know one another.  BBC Radio Leeds interviewed...

Jewish and Muslim Mancunians show unity Two Mancunians, one Muslim and the other Jewish, have come together in the wake of the Manchester and London attacks to help build closer ties between the two communities by celebrating what they have in...

Rabbi and imam Get Together to share love for Yorkshire, their toddlers and food with moving Love Actually style video They come from two different Yorkshire communities, but exactly as Jo Cox MP once told Parliament, they have so much...

As part of the Great Get Together weekend, to mark the one year anniversary of murdered politician Jo Cox, New Horizons in British Islam brought together young British Muslims and Jews to get to know one another.  BBC Radio Leicester...

As part of the Great Get Together weekend, to mark the one year anniversary of murdered politician Jo Cox, New Horizons in British Islam brought together young British Muslims and Jews to get to know one another.   BBC East Midlands...

‘Terrorism Has No Religion’: Muslims Across The UK Slam London Attackers “It shouldn’t even have to be said, but this is not Islam,” one Islamic charity group wrote. In a rallying cry against religious extremism, Muslims across...

We at New Horizons in British Islam are utterly heart broken that young people enjoying a pop concert have been targeted by this barbaric and evil attack in Manchester.  Our thoughts are with the families of the 22 that have died, and we...

withFollowing the brutal attack in Westminster on the 22nd March 2017, New Horizons in British Islam joins the rest of the country in mourning the loss of innocent life.  Our thoughts, our prayers and deepest sympathies are with the...

Dr Peter Mandaville is a former Senior Advisor at the US Department of State under both Hillary Clinton and John Kerry. He's been invited to speak at the British Islam Conference 2017. He tells Radio 4 about the challenges he believes Muslims...

British and American Muslims are now facing the same unprecedented prejudices and challenges, in a way they didn’t used to, according to a leading expert on Islam.   Peter Mandaville,  who has spent many years writing about Islam...

Stumbling around East London looking for the Amnesty International building in the drizzly weather, concerned that my phone was about to die on me, I pause for a moment to reflect upon why I should attend this conference. Aren’t there...

LONDON – Held at Amnesty International’s Human Right’s Action Center in London, it is unsurprising that the theme of the British Islam conference focused on addressing and overcoming the perception of them vs us. What is our identity as...

Meeting the religious author Karen Armstrong was one of those ‘no way’ moments of life. Energized by a great speech which projected a glimpse of her years of spiritual dialogue, reflected in her transition from conservative Catholicism to...

A blog looking at one of the inspirations behind the British Islam Conference. From the very first time that I attended Limmud, I thought to myself, “I wonder if this can be done with Muslims?” A couple of years ago, I wrote in...

A major conference being held in London over the weekend will be attended by a whole host of British Muslim organisations. The British Islam Conference is being organised by New Horizons in British Islam and will take place at the Human Rights...