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About Us

 

Since its inception, Emerald have hosted (directly or been involved assisting indirectly), in excess of 50 events across the UK - predominantly in London, with others in Manchester and in Birmingham. Based on demand, we are happy to host events in a town or city near you, simply contact us and inform us of the likely demand.

 

All of our events are primarily centred around an informal dinner setting (hence usually use restaurants as venues). The purpose of the events are to enable individuals to network with Muslims in a respectable environment (strictly non-smoking, no alcohol served functions). With regards to attractions at the events; past, present and insh'Allah in future, include. Islamic art exhibitions, performing artists (comedy, nasheed artists), quiz nights, charity auctions and more…

 

The events also act as an excellent forum for voluntary, community or charity/not-for-profit organisations to promote themselves and/or raise funds. The organisations that benefited incl:

 

Other benefits include raising the profile and communicating to a wider audience, the excellent work of voluntary and community based organisations. A case study example is that of the various Saturday Schools in London - incl. South London Supplementary School, which benefited from Emerald by using the platform to recruit volunteer teachers from the wide professional representation in attendance at the event (eg. Accountants, HR, PR, Doctors, IT, Journalists, Lawyers, etc), and raising the awareness of their school to potential students too in the South London and surrounding catchment areas.


If you have any community-related or charity venture that you would like us to promote or work together, please contact us.


The underlying emphasis is one of being incredibly friendly, promoted primarily via word of mouth - and more recently the 1000+ strong facebook group.

 

For a background to emerald network - please see the animation below, produced by Aisha Ahmad of spacebelly.com, with the soundtrack by Imran Ahmad.

 

In addition - please see video on muslimcafe.tv - archive of "emerald 50" celebration!