A Manifesto For Hope Principle 7: Do things ‘with’ people not ‘to’ them or ‘for’ them, with Steve Chalke’s guest and expert witness Julie Siddiqi MBE, social entrepreneur (part 1 of 2)
Do things ‘with’ people not ‘to’ people: Poverty will never be solved by programmes. It takes a village to raise a child but too often we’ve left it to paid professionals. In this episode Steve’s guest and expert witness is Julie Siddiqi MBE. In part one Steve sets out his seventh principle, in part two Julie responds.
“This is my conversation with my guest and expert witness Julie Siddiqi MBE, social entrepreneur and founder and director of Together We Thrive. We talk together about Principle 7: Do things ‘with’ people, not ‘to’ them or ‘for’ them. I love talking with Julie because of how she lives out her Muslim faith. She's lived in the same community for the last 20 years. She served those people she knows, those people she rejoices with, those people she weeps with. Julie is the embodiment of working with people rather than doing things for them or to them. I love her.”
– Steve Chalke
About Julie Siddiqi
Julie Siddiqi is a mentor, consultant, community activist and gender equality campaigner with a focus on interfaith relations. She has a background in community grassroots work spanning 25 years, and is founder of Together We Thrive, and co-founder of The Big Iftar, and Nisa-Nisham – the Jewish and Muslim Women’s Network and the largest network of its kind in Europe. Julie was Executive Director of the Islamic Society of Britain from 2010-2014 and has also been a member of the government’s National Muslim Women’s Advisory Group and National Anti-Muslim Hatred Working Group. Julie was awarded an MBE in 2020 for services to promoting interfaith understanding.
About this podcast series
This podcast series, and the accompanying book by Steve Chalke, sets out ten tried and tested practical principles for ‘how’ to develop joined up, cost effective, community empowering work, gleaned from the hard-won experience that sit at the heart of the mission of Oasis over the last four decades.
Steve talks to 13 expert witnesses who help him bring his book to life with their own thoughts and lived experiences.
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