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Applications for NEA’s Warm and Safe Homes Campaign Awards to support the charity’s perennial Warm and Safe Homes Campaign (WASH) are now open. Awards of £500 will be given to not-for-profit and statutory organisations to organise an event or deliver an activity aimed at raising awareness of the impact of cold homes on health and safety and the solutions available to help vulnerable people.
The closing date for applications is 5.00pm on
4 October 2019. See below for details
www.nea.org.uk/campaigns-policy/wash-2018/wash-awards-2019/
Warm and Safe Homes Campaign Awards 2019 - NEA
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Applications for NEA’s Warm and Safe Homes Campaign Awards to support the charity’s perennial Warm and Safe Homes Campaign (WASH) are now open. Awards of £500 will be given to not-for-profit and statutory organisations to organise an event or deliver an activity aimed at raising awareness of th...Charity Bank are running free half day seminars on the state of the Third Sector and funding. Please see below for more information.
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Good Morning, please see below for an opportunity to apply for a small grant.
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Small grants of up to £2,000 available for community projects
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Got an idea for a project that will bring people in Blackburn with Darwen together? A new grants fund is available for local groups and organisations that want to deliver projects to help make a stA great talk by our champion, Sofia, held at Bethel Evangelical Church in Preston around organ donation. A lot of interest shown and issues discussed.
Today has seen the release of a Fatwa on Organ donation and transplantation in Islam, by Mufti Mohammed Zubair Butt. please read and share to increase knowledge so people can make informed choices.
Dear Colleagues
2019 fatwa: Organ donation and transplantation in Islam: an opinion
We are writing to you to let you know that a new fatwa (religious edict) has been released today by a leading UK-based Muslim Scholar, clarifying his position on living and deceased organ donation. You can read a press release about it here.
After extensive interrogation of religious texts, fatawa on organ donation published elsewhere in the world and engagement with other Islamic scholars, imams and umbrella bodies, leading intensive care doctors, specialist nurses and transplant surgeons, Mufti Mohammed Zubair Butt has reached the following conclusions:
• The transplant of pure animal organs and tissue is permissible, but the transplant of impure animal organs and tissue is not permitted unless there is no permissible alternative.
• Replant and autotransplant of human organs and tissue is permissible.
• Living/altruistic organ donation is permissible provided harm to the donor is negligible or relatively minor that it does not disrupt the life of the donor.
• Organ donation after circulatory determination of death (DCDD) is permissible provided the point of elective irreversibility has lapsed.
• Organ donation after neurological determination of death (DDDB) following complete and irreversible loss of brain function, is permitted only once the point of elective irreversibility has lapsed and the heart has stopped.
• Deceased organ donation and transplantation of all organs/tissues besides the gonads is permissible.
This is not the first fatwa to be published in the UK on organ donation - preceding ones were released in 1995 and 2000. This new fatwa draws upon the four established Sunni schools of Islamic jurisprudence and looks to complement the existing knowledge and serve as a discussion document for Islamic scholars, Imams and Muslim chaplains.
Mufti Mohammed Zubair Butt also covered other forms of donation in his edict reaching the conclusion that it is permitted to donate stem cells from adult tissue, tissue of a minor with parental permission, cord blood, a miscarried foetus, a foetus aborted for a reason valid in sharīʿa, and a surplus embryo incidental to the process of IVF. However, stem cells obtained through therapeutic cloning are not permitted.
He also concludes that the use of prostheses is permissible.
Mufti Mohammed Zubair Butt’s fatwa is the culmination of several years’ work supported by NHS Blood and Transplant and comes at a crucial time. Following the successful experience in Wales, where consent rates for organ donation have significantly increased after introducing ‘opt out’ in 2015; Jersey (July 2019), England (spring 2020) and Scotland (date TBC) are all working towards implementing an opt out system. Guernsey and the Isle of Man are also looking to introduce new legislation to change to an opt out system.
While people still have a choice whether or not they want to become organ donors in an opt out system, and families will always be consulted, people need to choose whether they want to donate.
We recognise the importance of someone’s faith in their decision making around organ donation and that many people will look to Islamic scholars and imams for their view around whether organ donation is permissible. We also recognise that there a number of different opinions.
We hope that the new fatwa will trigger conversations within the Muslim community, led by Islamic scholars, imams and umbrella organisations around the permissibility of organ donation.
To help with this, NHS Blood and Transplant has added links to the existing UK fatwas on its webpage www.organdonation.nhs.uk/islam. There are also a number of videos involving Mufti Mohammed Zubair Butt, Shaykh Dr Muhammad Mansur Ali and Amjid Ali talking about the new edict, videos of patients from the Muslim community talking about the impact of organ failure on their lives, and video clips from others in the Muslim community. You can find links to these from the web page above and also in an ‘Organ donation and Islam’ playlist on the NHS organ donation You Tube channel www.youtube.com/user/nhsorgandonation
We hope that you will use these as conversation starters and help share these assets within your community and on social media.
Three out 10 patients across the UK waiting for an organ transplant are from black, Asian and minority ethnic communities. The shortage of donors from these communities means that the average wait for a kidney transplant is longer than for white patients and we hope that greater understanding of the patient need, aligned with support from Islamic scholars, imams and umbrella organisations for organ donation will lead to more lives being saved through transplantation.
Kindest Regards
Yours sincerely
Anthony Clarkson, Director of Organ Donation and Transplantation, NHS Blood and Transplant
Amjid Ali, Transplantation in Islam project lead
Contact Information
Andrea Ttofa
Andrea.ttofa@nhsbt.nhs.uk
organdonation.nhs.uk
Most Islamic religious leaders accept organ donation during life, provided it does not harm the donor, and after death to save lives. In 2019, a UK-based Sunni scholar, Mufti Mohammed Zubair Butt, produced a fatwa on organ donation and transplantation in Islam. Find out about this fatwa and how it s...