Employability Blog

World Mental Health Day 2024

🌍💜 World Mental Health Day 💜🌍 To mark World Mental Health Day, we held a session for our Women’s Friendship Group on loneliness, with CBT counsellor Juliet Mugwanda. We learned how…

ESOL: Hello to New Beginnings!

1st October 2024 by Sonya Nemec, ESOL Conversation Tutor Goodbye to an ESOL era, and hello to new beginnings! Four years and a few months ago, the world changed. People…

Make Your Mark: Volunteering at Amina

On 29th February 2024, our team took part in the Make Your Mark Volunteer Managers Conference in Stirling. The Make Your Mark Volunteering Campaign aims to increase the quantity and diversity…

International Women’s Day 2024: Inspire Inclusion

Happy International Women’s Day! The theme for International Women’s Day 2024 is “Inspire Inclusion”. Amina – The Muslim Women’s Resource Centre (MWRC) empowers women by inspiring inclusion each day! We specialise in delivering…

Amina x Radiophrenia Podcast Launch

We are thrilled to have collaborated with Riah Naief and Katie Revell at Radiophrenia Glasgow over the Summer for our Amina Podcast. Our podcast was live streamed during an exclusive event…

Cost of Living Impact on Mental Health 2022-2023

Everyone is well aware of the cost of living crisis in the UK right now, regardless of who you are, where you come from or what you earn. In fact,…

Back to School

By: Sara McHaffie Making the decision to return to university later in life can be tricky. Personally, I already balance lots of demands on my time and energy. I work…

I did Accountancy – Do you want fries with that?

By: Farah Khan One day all of us get separated from one another, people get married, some move abroad and some pass away. Days, months, years pass, and our contact…

Success is Not a One Way Street

By: Kiran Dhanda Throughout my life I was led to believe that a successful individual is one who is able to attend university pretty much straight after high school, gets…

Unsure where to go from here? Making the best use of Employability Services

By: Issmat Ahmad With the looming pressure of people, I latched on to the first thing I could find after Graduation, and as many of us understand it’s not always…

From University to the World of Work

By: Tomiwa Folorunso June 2017. I was sitting in a park in London with my best friend, the day after the second interview for a graduate job that I had…

Calling all Aspiring Entrepreneurs!

By: Usman Majid Tell us a bit about Deenspiration and how this process came about? “Deenspiration basically came of the back of a project called Ramadan Legacy, which was an…