Chair of Trustees and Director of Education and Research
Farah Ahmed is Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. She co-convenes the Intercultural and Conflict-transformation Dialogue’ strand of the Cambridge Educational Dialogue Research group. Her current project is: Rethinking Islamic education for British Muslim children: a philosophical investigation of dialogue in Islamic educational theory and an empirical study trialling dialogic pedagogy in UK madrasahs (supplementary schools). Farah has published widely on Islamic education and has worked for nineteen years on research driven curriculum development and teacher education for Muslim teachers.
Safegaurding Trustee
Foziya Reddy is a founding trustee of Islamic Shakhsiyah Foundation and former head teacher of Shakhsiyah School London with over twenty-five years’ experience in education. She has a BA honours and PGCE in Primary Education. She is currently working towards the NPQH (National Professional Qualification in Headship). Foziya’s passion for Islamic and ‘alternative’ education stems from her deep commitment to the Islamic concept of motherhood.
Founding Trustee
Nadia Ameen is a founding trustee of Islamic Shakhsiyah Foundation, Acting Head Teacher and Head of Arabic at Shakhsiyah Schools. She has led the development of the unique Shakhsiyah Arabic and Halaqah Curriculum and trains and leads our team of Arabic teachers. Nadia has a BA in Linguistics and over twenty years of experience in education.
Yasmin Hoque is the founder of a social enterprise legal practice, AL-HQ Law & More and founder of the Hijri Planner, offering a blend of law & faith with specialist Sharia law qualifications (fiqh of Islamic Inheritance). She is also a consultant solicitor to many other law firms, businesses and charities locally across the South & London, supporting with specialist legal services, CPD training and legal advisory services as ethical services should be available to all inclusive of unique backgrounds, beliefs or life journey.
Fundraising and Marketing Trustee
Saima Hussain has been an active partner in a digital marketing agency since 2013. The agency primarily operates in the not-for-profit sector, facilitating different charities to raise funds through various digital platforms including Google Adwords and social media. Also, personally she has several years’ experience working with charity organisations both in voluntary and paid capacity. Leading and advising on fund raising strategies, organising large scale events, implementing changes to improve processes throughout the organisation introducing financial and strategic efficiencies as a result.
We are currently looking for trustees in safeguarding. If you are interested and want to support the work of shakhsiyah schools, please reach out by the following emails:
mail@isfnet.org.uk
mail-slough@isfnet.org.uk
Please note Trustee positions are voluntary and unpaid.
