Mustafa Hameed

Community-Led Insights from Rochdale In February 2026, The Salik Project UK delivered a community focus group in Rochdale in partnership with High Level Northern Trust and the Bangladesh Association and Community Project (BACP). The session was held at BACP and brought together ten participants—primarily Bangladeshi women, alongside one Pakistani woman and one Bangladeshi man, aged between 18 and 50. Participants were recruited through BACP’s established women’s group, ensuring the discussion...

Last year, we approached the Rochdale Council of Mosques with an idea. Could Rochdale’s mosques come together on the National Day of Action Against Addiction to deliver a coordinated Friday sermon on addiction — supported by local recovery organisations on site? Tomorrow, on the first Friday of Ramadan, that shared vision becomes reality. In collaboration with the Rochdale Council of Mosques, seven mosques across the borough will deliver a unified khutbah addressing addiction. Recovery...

Nitrous oxide — often referred to as “laughing gas” — is still widely perceived as a low-risk party drug. But in 2026, health professionals and public-health researchers are warning that this assumption is dangerously wrong.