The City Circle
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The City Circle, a network body of mainly young Muslim professionals. The current chairman is Asim Siddiqui. On the 7th of November 2006, The City Circle, announced that it had appointed Yahya Birt as its first Director with effect from December 2006.
The City Circle hosts weekly events and seeks to promote practical and progressive solutions to community problems. It runs targeted community based projects and holds fundraising dinners to support and highlight social and welfare causes as well as servicing third party initiatives.
Current projects of the organisation include a Saturday school, careers and mentoring, helping London's homeless and a children's club
The City Circle is significant in the development of the British Muslim Identity through its challenging weekly discussion groups. It has also attracted controversy through its policy of not aligning itself to any particular group or ideology. It is also significant in that it has not aligned itself to either the Muslim Council of Britain or the Sufi Muslim Council.
In 2005 it organised a prominent meeting to discuss the state of Muslim leadership in the UK[1]. Following the veil controversy the City Circle organised a public meeting with Jack Straw, where Jack Straw defended his comments[2].
The City Circle is a registered charity (Reg. No.1088931).
