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Following on from winning two awards in the regional 2017 NatWest Great British Entrepreneur Awards at the end of last year, Founder and Chairman of humanitarian charity Penny Appeal, Adeem Younis, has picked up the top national award for ‘Entrepreneur for Good’ in the National Awards that took place in London last week. Beating off […]
International singer, song writer Yusuf / Cat Stevens, is to support the Penny Appeal Winter Emergency campaign, by lending a previously unreleased song for a special TV advert. Yusuf / Cat Stevens says: “When I first saw the campaign video, my thoughts went to a song I had co-written in 1969 with friend Paul Ryan […]
Comedian Abdullah Afzal, of BBC sitcom Citizen Khan, is starring alongside a family of seven in the Great Muslim Panto. The charity Penny Appeal is presenting a world first – a pantomime by Muslims, for Muslims. Coming to six UK cities from 12 to the 21 December, they’re joined by Michael Truong and Mistah Islah of […]
Penny Appeal, international humanitarian charity, took home the award for the “Fundraising Campaign of the Year” at the inaugural Muslim Charity Awards. The charity won the category for The Super Muslim Comedy Tour 2016, which featured top Muslim comedians from the UK and America. Omar Regan, Abdullah Afzal (Amjad in BBC1 comedy Citizen Khan) […]
Penny Appeal, and other Muslim charities, who supported the people of Cumbria in the 2015 floods have created a positive image of British Muslims. Speaking ahead of the Carlisle Floods Expo, conference organisers Kerryanne Wilde and Sue Dust of CERT (UK) have said: ‘We were really touched by the support which Penny Appeal and […]
Swedish singer, songwriter and music producer of Lebanese origin, Maher Zain is arguably the biggest name in the Islamic Music genre. Maher Zain has released three al- bums with Awakening Records, Thank You Al- lah (2009), Forgive Me (2012) and One (2016). videos of his songs have exceeded 1.8 billion views. With more than 26 […]
