Tell Mama monitoring group facing closure after funding pulled by government

Members of the Muslim community shopping on the first day of Ramadan, on Whitechapel High Street, east London, on 28 February. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/EPA

The government is cutting all funding for the Islamophobia reporting service Tell Mama, leaving it facing closure weeks after it revealed a record number of anti-Muslim hate incidents in Britain.

Since its foundation in 2012, Tell Mama has been wholly funded by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to run its reporting service, which received almost 11,000 reports in 2023-4, and support victims of Islamophobia.