GET INVOLVED
We are passionate about collecting and sharing the heritage of the region’s Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities and ensuring that community projects are archived at the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre.
The Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust offers ongoing training to community groups with an interest in producing archive quality oral histories. We can also help with other aspects of project planning and delivery – from bid writing support to workshops, exhibition space and the long term preservation of your research.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss a project idea, email: [email protected] or call 0161 275 2920
Volunteering
We’re keen to hear from volunteers with specific skills and knowledge. We would also like to support those interested in pursuing a career in museums, libraries, archives or heritage. Example volunteer roles are listed below (click on the links for more information.
If you’re interested in volunteering with us, please take a look at our Volunteer Policy.
What our volunteers say
Rebecca Bailey
Rebecca Bailey, 25, is an assistant exhibitions manager at The Royal Academy of Arts in London. Originally from Salford, and later Warrington, she completed a six-month internship as an oral history assistant with the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust as part of her MA in Religions and Theology at the University of Manchester. “The internship […]
Holly Randhawa
Holly Randhawa, 23 and from Birmingham, was an intern with the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust for six months. She arranged the placement through the Institute for Cultural Practices’ placement scheme, a course offered to postgraduate students at the University of Manchester. “My official title is sound archive assistant, which involves creating digital sound clips from […]
Daniella Carrington
Cultural officer at the Ministry of Community Development, Culture and the Arts, Trinidad and Tobago Daniella, 33, spent eight months as an intern with the trust in 2017, initially as part of a work placement while studying for her master’s degree in Museum Studies with the University of Manchester, and then as a volunteer. Assisting […]
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OUR BLOG
Keep up to date with our current projects, events and activities.
Holocaust Memorial Day 2021
Holocaust Memorial Day takes place every year on 27 January, a date which marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp. It is a day for remembering all those who have died in genocides, including the 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust and millions of others who died during […]
“Does Your Blood Not Move?”
Earlier this year we shared a post about the tragic death of Shukri Abdi, and its similarities with the case of Ahmed Iqbal Ullah. Shortly after that post was written, protests were held around the country, and in the USA and Canada. Here, Idiris Sheikhnur shares his experience of the protest in Manchester. (Note: this […]
Educational Resource Development – Freelance opportunity
Our archive and library collections hold an amazing range of diverse and powerful histories and experiences from Black, Asian, global majority, refugee and migrant communities. We need someone to help us create a set of lesson/activity plans and other resources that are rooted in our collections and support teachers and educators to deliver strong anti-racist […]