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By Kazeem Oloyede 24th March 2018 CICC held our first fundraising dinner on Saturday 24th March and it truly was a night to remember. The event was sold out, hosted 130 guests and was sponsored by 18 generous local and national businesses, each taking either a bronze,...

By Shoomi 6th July 2018 A massive well done to CICC's Youth Circle who collected donations over Ramadhan for the Colchester Foodbank. Nearly half a tonne of items were donated. Earlier in Ramadhan on 2nd June, the Youth Circle visited the Colchester Foodbank to find...

Our Bring a Dish Iftaar Party on Saturday 26th May was wonderful. It was a combination of delicious food, brilliant company and a generous community spirit. The event brought together nearly 150 people from Colchester's diverse Muslim community. This really showed in...

By Safiyah, Aged 8 5th May 2018 The Ramadhan workshop is where you do lots of fun activities, for example, in the bog girls room there were bunting, pompoms decorations, Qur’an bookmarks, Tasbeeh [prayer beads], Ranadhan cards and Happy Ramadhan bunting. The bunting...

By Dr Mohammed Abid Yusuf 7th May 2018 With Ramadan fast approaching, the title of this talk was a fortuitous one: Nutrition, Lifestyle and Islam. Making the wrong culinary choice is commonplace in Muslim households during Ramadan and outside of it, so this talk...

CICC was featured in the Colchester Daily Gazette on 11th March 2018. Text from article by Katie Palmer below: "HALF a tonne of food has been donated to help those in need - one of the largest donations yet. Colchester Islamic Community Centre collected the supplies...