Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. Please discuss further on the talk page. (September 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this message) The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines for companies and organizations. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. Find sources: "Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (September 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this message) This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (May 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this message) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre

Resource Centre is based at Manchester Central Library
Named after	Ahmed Iqbal Ullah
Formation	1999; 26 years ago (1999)
Founder	Lou Kushnick OBE
Type	Lending library
Purpose	To provide educational resources about race relations and migration
Location	Manchester, England
Coordinates	53°28′41″N 2°14′41″W / 53.478056°N 2.244722°W / 53.478056; -2.244722
Leader	Dr Safina Islam
Parent organization	University of Manchester
Website	www.racearchive.manchester.ac.uk

The Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre is "one of Europe's leading specialist libraries on migration, race and ethnicity"^[1] open to members of the public, students and researchers. It increases access to and visibility of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) histories with a growing archive of material relating to the local area. Its sister organisation, the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust offers advice, training, networking opportunities, project support, exhibitions, publications and events to help community organisations to record and share their heritage. The Centre is part of the University of Manchester and is located in Manchester Central Library, where it is part of the Archives+ partnership.^[2] The current head of both the Centre and the Trust is Dr Safina Islam, who was appointed in March 2019.^[3]