Meet the team

Name: Nafisa Hakim
Position: Mentoring Co-ordinator
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• Previously worked in Property Development in Birmingham, managing a large Client Portfolio
• Also worked at Bolton Council with experience in business support, learning and training and working with young people with social needs
• The project aims to play a pivotal role in helping young people for BME (Black, minority & ethnic community) communities who experience a wide range of problems, to set personal goals for their future and to reach those goals.
• The project aims to link young people on a one-to-one basis with a volunteer mentor who provides support and guidance.

Name: Aminah Atcha
Position: Community Development Officer for Muslim Women
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• Background in social care and housing, working with people who have drugs, alcohol and mental health issues.
• Specialise in domestic violence
• Working with community leaders and provide support, guidance, training and education at all levels
• Currently looking at working with existing women’s groups, identifying any gaps within there organisation.
• Also looking at setting up new women’s groups within Bolton

Name: Waleed Shaukat
Position: Mosque Madrassah Community Development Officer
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Name: Naeema Umar
Position: Administrator
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• Internal administrator at BCoM

Name: Yaseer Ahmed
Title: Development Manager of the Bolton Council of Mosques
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• Non-Executive Director at Bolton NHS
• Previously Vice Chair at Bolton CVS
• Qualified youth worker and chair a youth group called GEMS
• Development manager responsible of developing the BCoM’s aims and objectives

Name: Yunus Bobat
Title: Mosque Liaison Officer
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• Previously worked in pharmaceutical sales
• Part time teacher at the local Madrassah in Bolton
• Current role as a mosque liaison officer working with the mosques to give Advice, Guidance and support.
• Supervises the burial service which is operated through BCoM.
• Facilitates the Health forum looking at Health initiatives.
• Facilitates the Mosque & Madrassah development group which is looking at utilities consortium, development of policy & procedures for mosques/Madrasahs.

Name: Inayat Omarji
Title: Children and Young Peoples Manager
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• 14 years Local Authority experience in Sports, leisure & community development services.
• Governor at local Primary school & recent appointment as a governor at Bolton’s NHS Trust.
• Role at the BCoM is to manage the children and young people’s projects that take place through BCoM.
• Working in partnership with other Children and Young People service providers
• Currently Managing various projects and initiatives across Bolton

Name: Khadija Patel
Title: Female Development Youth Worker
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• Achieved Youth Achievement Platinum Award through volunteering with the BCoM
• Teacher at local Madrassah
• Works with young people across the borough
• Level one football coach
• Good links around working with young people at BCoM

Name: Yunus Mohamed
Title: Counselling Coordinator
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• Has completed the TESOL post graduate certificate in teaching English to speakers of other languages and subsequently taught in the Bolton Community College on a part time basis for two years.
• Went on to Practice counselling at the St Georges day Centre in Bolton accumulating over 120 hours of counselling  before initiating and assisting to set up the BCOM counselling service; a counselling service which is culturally appropriate for more specifically Muslims and generally for the other ethnic groups in Bolton and around Bolton; under the auspices of  Bolton Council of Mosques (BCOM).
• Worked on a part time basis with BAND as a Community Development Worker and remained in the post till March 2009, pioneering the forming of the linking minds and other relevant works forwarding the government agenda of delivering race equality in mental health provision.
• Commenced the role of counselling coordinator at BCOM counselling service.
• Has been working towards encouraging the Muslim population of Bolton and the other ethnic groups to access such a service to improve their mental wellbeing. Thus far hundreds have benefitted from this free service, quite obviously lightening the burden upon the mental health provisions of the local PCT and benefiting those who otherwise would not have accessed a conventional counselling service.   
• Lecturer in Islamic Theology at Al-Jamiah Al-Islamiyah, Bolton