Our Edinburgh Muslim community-friends, families and neighbours organised a fundraising dinner and an auction on Sunday, 22nd April in aid of the children of Palestine. I was also requested not only to attend but also to host and fundraise on the night. The Highland suite in the Highland Centre, next door to Edinburgh airport, with 800 seated capacity was the function event. What organisers originally thought would be a medium size (300 people) event grew into a level they say they could not

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Islamic Relief has been the charity of choice for Charity Week (CW) in Scotland for many years and this year was no different. Students from all over the country from 1st November to 7th November undertook different ways of fundraising from bucketing on the streets, family fundraising days, doughnut sales, and charity dinners. I was also involved, fundraising on Saturday 6th November in the Dundee dineer which was organised entirely by students who at this time of year are also very busy wit

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The past weekend has been a very busy one for me. I had to present my eye-witness account of Pakistan floods and fund raise in Edinburgh and Lanark during 2 fundraising dinners. Over £115,000 were raised from the 2 events. On Saturday evening the fundraiser dinner for the Pakistan flood victims was in Edinburgh (Royal Highland Centre). The event was organised and hosted by the community of Edinburgh. It was truly inspiring to see that local Edinburgh organisations came together and were

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