Our Work

25/11/2020 - We have donated our toys and educational resources collected, to the foodbank that operates in our building the Women's Enterprise Hub. We also distributed our leaflets in each individual bag of food to let further people know about our...

23/11/2020 - Our second virtual session ran from 11am - 11:45am with five attendees in total. A few women in the WhatsApp Group Chat are starting to talk to each other and share their struggles and thoughts. There is a sense of solidarity and support emerging, which...

23/11/2020 - The University of Birmingham are looking for Muslim women who have experienced Islamophobia and hate crimes, for a research project. If you fit this category please contact the email on the poster.

16/11/2020 - Our first virtual session ran from 11am - 12:08pm, with six attendees in total. We had lots of laughs and smiles with a lot of conversation...

17/11/2020 - We believe everyone in our city should have access to nutritious, tasty cooked meals. The Big Feed Project is offering free cooked meals to collect from its community cafes across Birmingham....

16/11/2020 - Himaya Haven staff training in Business Development week 3 via...

11/11/2020 - We are creating a virtual coffee morning for our clients - Himaya Haven Chit Chat, to provide a space for them to communicate and confide in others going through similar experiences and aid in mental health and wellbeing as we progress through the second...

11/11/2020 - A quick look at the BTS of our team at Himaya Haven hard at work - continuing our support to the silent victims on the outside during the Covid19 Crisis. Via Phone and virtual platforms. Smiles are what gets us through...

4/11/2020 - We had a meeting in our office with Khalid from Kals Community Project. We are looking forward to working in collaboration, supporting our young people on preventing a life of crime and antisocial...

3/11/2020 - Himaya Haven have been asked to contribute a written chapter to an edited book by Dr Natalie Booth from the University of Bath. Sharing our experiences, findings and reflections from working on the frontlines supporting families who have or had loved ones...

2/11/2020 - Himaya Haven staff training in Business Development Week 2 via...

02/11/2020 - The Women's Enterprise and Community Hub in partnership with Your Money Your Way CIC are providing supportive one-to-one sessions advice sessions for those who have financial/debt...

02/11/2020 - We are looking for donations so that we can continue to build care packages for families within the community, as we go into a second lockdown, helping to support their mental health and wellbeing and reminding them that they are not alone which is...

02/11/2020 - From the 2nd November money will need to be sent to those in prison via debitcard and can no longer be sent via bank transfer, pre-paid debit card, cash, cheques or postal orders. If there are any of our families or people you know who may need help to...

26/10/2020 - Himaya Haven staff training in Business Development via Zoom. 

23/10/2020 - New Leaf Initiative CIC asked Himaya Haven to collaborate with them by translating the front and back of informational leaflets for H.M.P Birmingham's visitor counsel service in three different languages - Romanian, Hindi and Urdu.      ...

23/10/2020 - We attended Neema Women's coffee morning where we enjoyed a French breakfast and handed out some of our leaflets to the women in attendance. Neema Women provide a coffee morning service for ladies to attend every Friday, in the Women's Enterprise Hub....

13/08/2020 - Himaya Haven launched our brand new office and report Who Cares, You...

24/07/2020 - Our extra support packs given through our mentoring programme to support our families who have been referred to us by schools & Childrens...

24/07/2020 - Himaya Haven staff hard at work, analysing data and preparing information for our annual...

23/07/2020 - We will be launching our report 'Who Cares, You Care", hosting our AGM, and revealing our brand new office on the 13th August 2020. Social distancing rules will be applied to ensure safety for our guests. Attendees will be designated a time slot to ensure...

24/02/2020 - Dr. Martin Glynn's workshop on Black Men, Invisibility and...

19/02/2020 - Attended Smart Women CIC event Working Together Tackling Health Inequalities in our...

11/02/2020 - Mind the Trap was delivered at Concord Youth...

30/01/2020 - Himaya Haven has been successful in receiving funding from the Community Fund to support us for the next five years. We are ready to witness our growth with the help of this...

30/01/2020 - Himaya Haven was invited into Conway Primary School's coffee morning to deliver a talk to the parents of children on how to safeguard their children from knife attacks/crime; after concerns for their children and their own safety due to Grantham road...

28/01/2020 - We attended Bordesley Green Girls School Enrichment Day yesterday through Aspire4U. We delivered our project information to at least 360 girls and staff. A really positive day lots of questions were asked from the students, very engaging and showed a lot...

23/01/2020 - Delivering our workshop on Mind the Trap in Ark St. Albans...

18/01/2020 - Delivering another Mind the Trap Workshop with parents and youths at the Dream Chasers Youth...

09/01/2020 - Outreach work at H.M.P Birmingham. 

07/01/2020 - New year, same great work! Continuing our outreach work at H.M.P...

01/01/2020 - Himaya Haven wishes everyone a successful, happy new...

18/12/2019 - Our Senior Managing Director had received her Prison Link Level 2 Award for Prison Work at Lloyds House. The first person to achieve the Level 2...

17/12/2019 - Craig Pinkey and Dr. Martin Glynn present Making Sense of the Chaos: A Birmingham...

17/12/2019 - Our second delivery of Mind the Trap workshop at Small Heath Leadership Academy, with over 250 children in attendance. Facilitated by Raymond Douglas. The children were fully engaged and well behaved, doing their school proud....

11/12/2019 - HH were lucky enough to be invited in to H.M.P Brinsford to join staff and families at their Family Day visit. It was lovely to see the look on the children's faces when they saw Santa and his elves come in and give them their...

09/12/2019 - HH delivered toys donated to us, to Brinsford in time for their Christmas Family...

09/12/2019 - Himaya Haven's programme of MIND THE TRAP workshop delivered by Raymond Douglas at Waverley Studio College to 2 groups with Year 10,11 and 6th Formers (Over 100 students). Topics covered included Safeguarding, keeping safe, challenging mindsets around...

05/12/2019 - Monthly outreach work at H.M.P Birmingham where we engaged with 36 visitors, of which there were 22 females, 7 males and 7...

28/11/2019 - Monthly outreach at H.M.P Featherstone where we engaged with 14 visitors of which, 8 were female, 2 were males, and 4 children. We gave children some early christmas gifts that were donated to...

26/11/2019 - Monthly outreach work at H.M.P Brinsford where we engaged with 30 visitors, of which 21 were female, 8 males and 1 child....

25/11/2019 - HH attended the launch of Bahu Trust's 2 videos on Faith Against Violence. Very powerful and emotional videos. Knife Crime Affects Everyone - https://youtu.be/5_cHjfnRWmI Domestic Abuse...

22/11/2019 - HH attended MWN's AGM where they launched their report on Muslim Women's Experience of the Criminal Justice...

19/11/2019 - HH were supporting a client whose partner was in prison, had immigration issues and was struggling to make ends meet. She received indefinite stay and we were able to donate food with the help of Odara, and communicate due to language barriers with the...

15/11/2019 - Following on from last years donations of christmas presents, HH wanted to do the same again this year round; collecting for H.M.P Birmingham, Featherstone and...

08/11/2019 - Outreach in H.M.P Birmingham on their open day where we engaged with 16 visitors, of which 10 were female and 6 were...

05/11/2019 - A police event/meeting discussing research by Dr. Anna Kotova - A talk on the golden thread families of people who...

31/10/2019 - On our outreach visit in H.M.P Featherstone we were made aware of the updates to the Shuttle Bus Service for visitors. Families really struggle with cost of visits. If you are visiting Featherstone, Brinsford or Oakwood. Use the Shuttle bus. From the...

31/10/2019 - Outreach work at H.M.P Featherstone where we engaged with 31 visitors, of which 12 were female, 13 males and 6 children. On this same day we went to visit a client from Brinsford, where we engaged with 8 visitors, of which 6 were female, 1 male and 1...

29/10/2019 - Outreach work at H.M.P. Brinsford where we engaged with 23 visitors, of which 18 were female, 3 males and 2...

10/10/2019 - For Mental Health Awareness Week, HH attended this...

03/10/2019 - Our monthly outreach in H.M.P Birmingham where we engaged with 18 visitors, of which 9 were female, 7 males, and 2...

26/09/2019 - Outreach at H.M.P Featherstone. We engaged with 15 visitors of which, 11 were female, 1 male and 3...

24/09/2019 - Brinsford September outreach. We engaged with 23 visitors of which, 15 were female and 8...

18/09/2019 - Congratulations to our Director Zobia, who has graduated from the University of Wolverhampton with a Degree of Bachelor of Science with Honours First Class in...

05/09/2019 - Outreach visit at H.M.P Birmingham. Wen engaged with 12 visitors, of which 11 were female and 1...

22/08/2019 - Outreach work at H.M.P Featherstone. We engaged with 16 visitors, of which 10 were female, 4 males and 2...

20/08/2019 - Himaya Haven delivered donations of hand creams, shampoos, vests, thermals, jumpers and boxers, for the residents at Oakwood as a starter pack when they leave the...

07/08/2019 - Himaya Haven were invited to an open day at H.M.P Birmingham to advertise their services. We handed out some free goodies including umbrellas, hand creams, tea flasks and...

29/07/2019 - Himaya Haven invited for a meeting with Oakwood Prison discussing the rise in Muslim prisoners and how we can work alongside one another with Muslim prisoners prior to release and on release to reduce re-offending...

25/07/2019 - Himaya Haven's first outreach session in H.M.P & Y.O.I Brinsford in partnership with Barnardos, where we handed out leaflets to families in the visiting centre and made them aware of our services. We were able to help a mother who's first time it was...

23/07/2019 - Himaya Haven's first outreach session in H.M.P Featherstone in partnership with Barnardos, where we handed out leaflets to families in the visiting centre and made them aware of our services. We engaged with 22 visitors of which 12 were women, 1 male and...

15/07/2019 - Himaya Haven attended the launch of the report Sisters in Desistance report by Sofia Buncy in Bradford. The report focuses on Muslim women post prison and providing them community based solutions...

12/07/2019 - At Women'a Well-being Centre with Zainab Al-Suwaji, Executive Director for American Islamic Congress discussing the opportunities and services women provide and receive in the...

05/07/2019 - Sparkhill Springers Street Watch at Sparkhill Fun Fair, getting members to join WM Now and street watch as well as raising awareness of Himaya Havens...

04/07/2019- Outreach work in H.M.P Birmingham visitors centre.

25/06/2019 - Meeting at Featherstone prison discussing ways to support families in partnership with...

22/06/2019 - Himaya Haven put on an away day for members of the team. Delivered by Dr Martin Glynn, understanding the underlying issues of crime and specifically desistance in the criminal justice...

20/06/2019 - West Midlands Police, Sgt Hanif and Inspector Imran, working in partnership with Himaya Haven and local residents joined forces to create safer...

20/06/2019 - Himaya Haven offered mentoring training to it's team, delivered by Raymond Douglas. The training was tailored around how to mentor returning...

18/06/2019 - Himaya Haven were at H.M.P Birmingham's open day alongside other services that can be useful to families who have someone in prison. We also had a lovely visit from two...

13/06/2019 - Himaya Haven at the Youth Fest...

12/06/2019 - Our quarterly steering group meeting addressing the recent highlighted crime and issues in the past 3...

11/06/2019 - A full day conference highlighting the issue of forced marriage and honour based violence, launching their new...

21/05/2019 - A collaborative meeting with West Midlands Police offender management team and Head of prison Chaplain...

04/05/2019 - A Networking Seminar around helping and inspiring young...

02/05/2019 - Outreach work was carried out in the prison visiting center from 12pm - 2pm

02/05/2019 - Workshop at Somerville Primary School 9:30am -...

01/05/2019 - We were invited to lead a discussion group and to bring in a few case studies to encourage this discussion. We also sat on a...

16/04/2019 - Justice Network Meeting 1 till 3pm. 

09/04/2019 - A workshop was done at the Perry Barr custody suite: criminal justice liaison and diversion service and operational...

05/04/2019 - We attended an event on research on working with criminalised men and women and the development and delivery of rehabilitative...

02/04/2019 -  Himaya Haven at HMP Birmingham stationed in the visiting center, to provide support and guidance for those who may be in need, especially if it is their first visit (in this prison); as a lot of nerves and confusion may...

02/04/2019 - Delivering at Dyson Gardens Children...

29/03/2019 - Today completed the Mental Health First Aid Training very intense 2 days highly recommend...

28/03/2019 - Today completed the Mental Health First Aid Training very intense 2 days highly recommend...

25/03/2019 - Challenging Hate and Islamophobic Building Resilient Communities at the...

23/03/2019 - The Sparkhill Park event, attracted a good number of people, young, elders, men and women. We actively engaged with a diverse range of people. issues, which cropped up, included, litter, fly tipping, neglect of the park drugs, knife and gun...

21/03/2019 - Workshop today at the Dolphin Center. First workshop delivered in Mirpuri, it was an amazing...

19/03/2019 - Justice Network Meeting

18/03/2019 - Workshop on safeguarding children and families at Bangladesh Women’s Association SmallHeath Birmingham with Razia Tariq Hadait from Himaya Haven CIC and co with PREVENT &...

15/03/2019 - Workshop on Families for life by Nicola...

14/03/2019 - Today amazing committed community activists joined street watch under the guidance of Sgt Hanif Ullah and Georgina...

12/03/2019 - Information sharing event in Sparkhill Park

10/03/2019 - The Big...

06/03/2019 - Todays meeting stop the...

05/03/2019 - Today Himaya Haven was honoured to receive an award from the High Sheriff Chris Loughran of the West Midlands In recognition of great and valuable services to the...

26/02/2019 - Development of Tyseley and Haymills. Well attended community event with businesses, community and young...

26/02/2019 - Tackling Child Sexual Exploitaion

23/02/2019 - Today at the Somali Parents Forum Meet and Greet amazing...

22/02/2019 - Meeting in Oakwood Prison regarding in future projects.

16/02/2019 - Education Centre opened in Sparkbrook.

13/02/2019 - Today at Conway School,raising awareness on our work,and keeping children safe. With Liz Whelan and Vanessa from Youth for Human Rights...

12/02/2019 - Mentoring Session

07/02/2019 - Attended an Open Day in HM Prison Birmingham Visting...

03/02/2019 - A discussion in which we had talked about how knife crime had cause the deaths of children and teen in 2017 and talked about how we can come up with possible solutions to the issues surounding knife...

02/02/2019 - Directors attending a Mentoring Training for a Pilot Scheme with the West Midlands...

29/01/2019 - Today getting my level 2 in prison work signed off. I am the first ever person to complete level 2. My tutor is really impressed asked me to stay behind and speak to the...

25/01/2019 - Workshop on our prison work and gangs and violence awareness...

24/01/19 - Today attending and speaking the university seminar impact on short custodial sentences on mothers and their...

15/01/2019 - Community engagement meeting between West Midlands Police Inspector Imran Mirza and Zia-Ul-Ummah...

14/01/2019 - Attended Starbank School's afternoon tea where they went over the work they have done over the past...

14/12/2018 - Himaya Haven pitched an idea of mentoring youths to Year 11 students from Aston Manor Academy. This was to understand what teenagers may think will be most effective in reducing serious violence amongst young people. 85% of students liked the idea...

14/12/2018 - Prison Link organised their annual certificate ceremony for their 2018 students who had completed the Level 1 in Basic Prison Work Course. This took place at Lloyds House, where our certificates were presented by Assistant Chief Inspector of WMP and...

13/12/2018 - A workshop was delivered at Ladypool Primary School on the work of Himaya Haven.

06/12/2018 - Himaya Haven were asking for donations of new toys or money to buy brand new Christmas presents for children of prisoners in HMP Birmingham. However, we managed to deliver toys to four prisons within West Midlands; HMP Birmingham, HMP Brinsford, HMP...

04/12/2018 - Himaya Haven have been offered a space in HMP Birmingham to offer emotional and practical support for families of...

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27/11/2018 - Sultan Bahu Trust opening for their Hazrat Sultan Bahu Help...

13/11/2018 - Stakeholder Event at HMP Birmingham

20/11/2018 - Muslim Hands launched their report Invisibility in Birmingham; which focuses on Muslim women in...

16/11/2018 - Himaya Haven attended the mental health awareness event hekd by APWA UK, with Razia being a guest...

06/11/18 - Himaya Haven's first ever AGM and launch of our report "Silent Victims on the Outside", held at Highfield Hall. Guest speakers included Chris Loughran High Sheriff of West Midlands, Dr. Karamat Iqbal the author of our report, Dr. Anna Kotova University of...

29/10/2018 - Muslim Women's Network UK AGM at the House of...

25/10/2018 - Raising awareness on domestic violence during domestic violence awareness week. Ladies in attendance were given therapeutic hand...

23/10/2018 - The second part of our workshops on resilience. 

16/10/2018 - The first part of a workshop for women on how to stay...

10/10/2018 - Being Well Works Well Conference for World Mental Health Day held by Common Unity. ...

04/10/18 - A workshop delivered at Christ Church School introducing parents to our organisation and outlining the services that we...

4/10/2018 - A workshop on the drivers of radicalisation, lead by Shahid...

03/10/18 - A steering group meeting organised to catch up and discuss issues that have arised from the last meeting and community walk....

2/10/2018 - Himaya Haven held a workshop for parents on how to be safe on the internet and how to keep their children safe on the internet too. As well as how to encourage conversations on being...

25/09/18 - A community walk on Stratford Road from the Camphill roundabout to the junction of Walford Road. In attendance were Razia and Zobia Hadait, Arif Chohan, Maz Iqbal, Shahid Butt, Inspector Imran Mirza, SanaUllah, and...

22/09/18 - Rubbish clean up in the local...

12/09/18 - Himaya Haven was invited to a round table discussion on Families of Prisoners: Towards Policy Impact at Winterbourne House and...

01/08/2018 - Himaya Haven's second meeting with Chief Inspector Phillip Cape of West Midlands...

26/07/2018 - Zia-Ul-Ummah Centre held a workshop on street self defence against knife...

19/07/2018 - Himaya Haven attended Odara's event on tackling radicalisation at South and City...

18/07/2018 - A meeting held with members of the working group created from Himaya Haven's gangs and violence workshop. We touched upon the main issues mentioned from our last workshop and discussed actions that need to be taken and how we can go about it effectively....

12/07/2018 - A workshop on domestic abuse highlighting the many forms that it can take. We had Henna Rai sharing her experience of her past two experiences with domestic abuse. ...

10/07/2018 - A hard-hitting workshop attempting to tackle the increase in youth violence and create a working group. The workshop was ran by Raymond Douglas. In attendance were community members, statutory and voluntary organisations, WM Police and...

28/06/2018 - Ladies only event to celebrate Eid-Ul-Fitr 2018, after a hard and testing Ramadan, this was put together to reward the women for all their efforts in looking after their families during this month and a chance for them to get some beauty treatments! More...

22/06/2018 - Event at Ladypool School

28/03/2018 - West Midlands Police event highlighting the affects of stalking. Kerry Daynes, Forensic and Consultant Psychologist, a survivor of stalking, shared her...

27/03/2018 - Himaya Haven visited HMP Drakehall to gift some Qurans, prayer mats and religious literature that were donated on behalf of the community, at the request of Chaplain Sarah. We spent some time with female inmates, discussing the ways we can end the stigma...

26/03/2018 - We met with Lead Commissioner of Countering Extremism, Sara Khan, alongside other women organisations. Discussions of improvements for the...

22/03/2018 - Making our own bracelets at...

14/03/2018 - Thank you to Kabir and Tabraiz from Greencoat Nursery for our lovely new...

13/03/2018 - Himaya Haven meets with Chaplains from HMP Oakwood, HMP Birmingham, HMP Featherstone prison and HMP Brinsford Youth Offenders. Also, in attendance were 6 inmates who made valuable contributions and feedback, which will be...

08/03/2018 - Celebrating Women's International Day, with the panel consisting of Dr. Laura Zahra MacDonald, Rev. Bev Thomas, Lindsey Simmons, Faeeza Vaid and Joy...

06/03/2018 - A celebration of female achievements over the years and celebrating each and everyone's achievements who attended. In honour of Women's International...

Pathway2Grow's Ladies only networking event hosted by Nadia Rasul with guest speaker Brenda Dempsey. An opportunity for women to highlight their...

  15/02/2018 - First Aid training delivered by Julian Williams (Steroplast Healthcare) alongside the launch of Lynne Baird's (Daniel Baird Foundation All Lives Matter) Bleed Control Kit. The kit was designed to help aid people with catastrophic bleeding after her...

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07/02/2018

4/2/2018 -  Community Engagement Meeting

2/1/2018 - Safeguarding Our Women Conference

2/2/2018 - Coffee Morning at Marlborough Junior School

1/2/2018 - Women Empowering Women amazing stories of peoples lives...

31-1-2018 - Safe Sound Training Workshop

24-1-2018 - Women Empowering Women...

15/1/2018 - Himaya Haven organises workshop for awareness Family matter campaign on families matters...

15/12/2017 - Conference West Midlands Police Drugs Policy Summit

14/12/2017 - Conference Dery foundation mental health end of project...

8/12/17 - West Midlands Police Commission on Gangs and...

28/11/2017 - Conference West Midlands Victim Summit With Julie Din Director Himaya Haven, West Midlands Police Crime Commissioner David Jamieson and Razia Tariq Hadait Director Himaya Haven today at the Victims Summit Razia Tariq Hadait Director of Himaya Haven with...

27/11/2017 - Post Posting all our letters to the prison and collecting of our...

21/11/2017 - Coffee Morning Coffee morning and workshop on Holistic...

31/10/2017 33. Event West Midlands Police Cyber Summit Himaya Haven attending Cyber Summit For Business with West Midlands police and crime commissioner. with Julie...

20/10/2017 - Event Emergency to Urgency Youth Crime challenges for practitioners Responding to Gangs and Serious Youth Violence Today Himaya Haven attended EMERGENCY to URGENCY Challenges for Practitioners Responding to Gangs and Serious Youth Violence @Brookfield...

17/10/2017 - Coffee...

14/10/2017 - Event Youth World Café A great initiative by West Midlands...

11/08/2017 - Workshop Key influences...

02/08/2017 - Event Tell Mama Conference The event highlighted the service provided of hate...

21/07/2017 - Event Attending the Dery Foundation awareness on mental health, We introduced our...

21/07/2017 - Launch Women Empowering Women “Forgotten Voices of...

18/07/2017 - Training Safe Talk Suicide Alerters...

13/07/2017 - Event Street Party celebrating all cultures - unity...

11/07/2017 - Coffee Morning NLP Coffee Morning with Neuro Linguistic Programme Karen Baugham...

30/06/2017 - Training Presentation Skills...

21/6/2017 - Multi Faith Iftar during ramadan Zia Ul Ummah - Victoria...

24/05/2017 - Meeting Sajid Javid Secretary of State for Communities and Local...

On April of 2017 we were visited by the home secretary Amber...

05/03/2017- We engage launch on their work on Mental Health

6th Feb 2017 - FGM Conference Female genital mutilation (FGM), also known as female genital cutting and female circumcision, is the ritual cutting or removal of some or all of the external female genitalia. The practice is found in Africa, Asia and the Middle East,...

02/05/2017 - Coffee Morning Coffee morning held at Odara which including our workshop on prevent