Muslim champion Noori Bibi honoured by Sheila McKechnie Campaign for Social Justice Award

Published: 15 October, 2010

CHAMPION for young Muslims in Islington, Noori Bibi, has won a prestigious award to recognise the value of her work.

TV journalist Jon Snow presented Noori with the Sheila McKechnie Campaign for Social Justice Award at a ceremony in St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church, Trafalgar Square.

Noori has led the Islington Council’s Young Muslim Voices project for the last three years, organising a ‘kick Islamaphobia out of football’ festival, arts projects, anti-knife crime events and two film documentaries.

Noori said: “It’s such an honour. It shows that the good work we do in Islington is being nationally profiled.” 

The Sheila McKechnie campaign was formed by friends of Sheila, who won a formidable reputation as a champion of social justice through work with trade unions, the housing charity Shelter and the consumers’ organisation Which?”

She died of cancer in 2004 aged 55.”