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Eid Al-Adha event at KYP brings community together

Over 100 people attended a vibrant Eid Al-Adha celebration on 20 June, which brought communities together from a range of faiths and backgrounds. The event, which took place at the Kashmir Youth Project centre on Belfield Road, included notable figures such as Lord Qurban Hussain of Luton, KYP co-founder Shabir Hussain, and the Mayor of […]

KYP celebrates the success of its Asylum Migration Integration Fund programme

Kashmir Youth Project (KYP) hosted a ceremony on 21 December to celebrate the successful delivery of the Asylum Migration Integration Fund (AMIF) programme funded by the Home Office. The programme, which started in September 2019, was aimed at providing ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) and integration activities to third country nationals, who have the right […]

Winners of the 2023 Rochdale Diversity Awards

Diversity in health award presented by Estelle Rowe (Your Trust – CEO) to Rochdale Health Alliance The winners of this year’s Rochdale Diversity Awards have been revealed at a ceremony on 1 December at KYP’s Unity House with over 120 guests, finalists and champions of diversity in attendance. The ceremony drew a wide range of attendees, […]

ESOL and Life in the UK

KYP is currently offering Free ESOL and Life in the UK courses to enable individuals who acquire new English language skills so they can actively take part in society and achieve their full potential.  Eligibility requirement are that students need to hold a Third Country Nationality or a Refugee status with a right to remain […]

Afghan Refugee Family Support Project

The Afghan Refugee Family Support Project covers Rochdale, Bolton, Bury, Oldham and Manchester. The Project is aimed at supporting and befriending Afghan refugees who have recently come into the UK. We offer a tailor made service, providing group and one to one support in all areas of life to help integration into British society.  Our […]

KYP aims to give food parcels to over 750 people by Eid

The Kashmiri Youth Project is aiming to have distributed food parcels to over 750 people by Eid-ul-Fitr this weekend. Since the start of the pandemic, the Kashmiri Youth Project (KYP) has been supporting individuals understand and follow government guidelines; responding to queries; listening to people; providing virtual assistance; signposting to the Council’s Emergency Response Centres; […]

Kashmir Youth Project deliver perinatal mental health workshop

A perinatal mental health workshop delivered by Kashmir Youth Project (KYP) was well attended by 60 women from across the Rochdale Borough on Monday 24 April. The workshop’s aims were to raise awareness of perinatal mental health and identify the issues affecting black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) women accessing the service. There was good […]

KYP Awards Ceremony 2016

KYP hosted its annual awards ceremony on Wednesday 21 September to celebrate, reward and recognise the achievement of its learners over the last 12 months. Certificates were presented to the learners by the Mayor Ray Dutton and the evening was hosted by Zulf Ahmed, Chief Executive of KYP. Mayor Dutton was very impressed by the […]