Our Response to Homophobic Protests Outside Parkfield Community School on 7th March
byOur organisation, Naz and Matt Foundation, was founded because a community and a conservative religious family did not understand what it means to be…
Our mission is to never let religion, any religion, come in the way of the unconditional love between parents and their children
Foundation Wins IKWRO Award For Its Work Tackling Honour Based Violence
byWe are truly honoured and thankful for Naz and Matt Foundation to have been awarded by IKWRO, the inspirational “Iranian & Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation”, an award…
Can you be Queer and have Faith?
byNavigating faith and queer identity can be tough, and often it can seem impossible to reconcile the two. On Tuesday Feb 26th, Naz and…
Foundation delivers workshops at NASUWT Teachers’ Conference
byWe are proud to have spoken at the NASUWT Teachers’ Union Conference in Birmingham about our work tackling religious and cultural homophobia in schools….
Foundation Delivers Full Day of School Talks in York
byFoundation delivers full day of ‘religion, homophobia and bullying’ school talks during LGBT History Month for Queen Ethelburga’s School in York.
To Chechnya, With Love – London’s protest against the LGBT purge in Chechnya
byOn Sunday 27th January 2019, a large group of protesters gathered in the pouring rain outside the Russian Embassy in London. They stood in…
A legal form of abuse: Conversion therapy
byWe speak to CNN about the hidden dangers of ‘conversion therapy’ and ‘gay cure therapy’ and why we must all work together to end…
Foundation delivers talk for Police Scotland and Women’s Aid Charity
byOn a cold foggy morning, Naz and Matt Foundation delivered their first talk in Scotland to a packed auditorium at headquarters of Police Scotland….
BBC Radio 5 Live Investigates: Shocking LGBT+ Domestic Abuse
byGalop, the LGBT+ anti-violence charity, recently completed a report based on the analysis of 626 domestic survivors between January 2013 and August 2017. Of…
Foundation delivers moving monologue at Home Office conference
byOur friends at Karma Nirvana invited Matt to speak alongside the legendary Jasvinder Sanghera CBE, founder of the charity and Britain’s most prominent campaigner…
Foundation delivers workshops for FFLAG’s 25 Year Anniversary
byAs part of FFLAG’s 25 year anniversary celebrations we were invited to be part of a day long event in Manchester organised by the…
Foundation delivers ‘Religious Homophobia’ lecture at Oxford University
byOn a dark October evening, Naz and Matt Foundation delivered a powerful lecture at Oxford University, Lady Margaret Hall, to a full room of…
Foundation delivers training workshop to LGBTQI helpline
bySwitchboard, one of the most widely known LGBT+ helplines recently approached Naz and Matt Foundation to provide a custom training workshop for their helpline…
World Suicide Prevention Day
byToday is World Suicide Prevention Day. Is today the day you reach out and ask for help? Is today the day you send that…
Foundation joins Coronation Street for Manchester Pride
byCoronation Street made headlines throughout this year for its groundbreaking lesbian Muslim storyline, inspired in part by our very own Naz and the experiences…
Pride In London: 48 Volunteers march with Naz and Matt Foundation
byNaz and Matt Foundation and 48 fabulous volunteers marched through the streets of the UK capital for London Pride on Saturday the 7th of…
HARM – Honour Abuse Research Matrix Network Launches
byThursday 5th July saw the launch of the much needed HARM – The Honour Abuse Research Matrix Network at the University of Central Lancashire….
Foundation’s response: Banning ‘gay cure’ therapies under the ‘LGBT action plan’
byNaz and Matt Foundation was interviewed by BBC News 24 about the UK Government’s announcement to ban so called ‘gay cure therapy’ (also called ‘conversion therapy’).
Will a UK ban on gay conversion therapy work?
byWriting for NewStatesmen, Precious Adesina interviews Matt about ‘gay cure therapy’ and the need to criminalise it. ‘Late in 2017, an assistant pastor in…
Religious homophobia is something that we all need to be more aware of
by“There is help out there for people who are suffering from religious homophobia. Matthew Mahmood-Ogston is the founder and trustee of a charity called…
July Support Meetup for Religious Parents & LGBTQI+ Individuals
byThis session will be a very important date as it will mark exactly 4 years to the day that my darling Naz sadly passed…
Foundation delivers moving speech at Birmingham Gay Symphony Orchestra anniversary concert
byBirmingham Gay Symphony Orchestra is one of only three LGBTQ+ orchestras in the UK and is made up of musicians who identify as LGBTQ+…
A gay Muslim who took his own life has inspired a Coronation Street storyline
by“A Coronation Street actress took inspiration for her role from the real-life story of a gay Muslim man committing suicide in 2014. Bhavna Limbachia…
Actress Shelley King gives her support to Naz and Matt Foundation
byThe Coronation Street actress recently gave her support to Naz and Matt Foundation during a live broadcast of ITV’s This Morning (April 18th 2018)….
Coronation Street’s Bhavna Limbachia: Lesbian storyline aims to educate people
byCoronation Street star Bhavna Limbachia has said the Kana (Kate + Rana) storyline is not there to offend people but to educate and spark…
Matt and Bhavna Limbachia on BBC Breakfast talking Corrie and religious homophobia
byCoronation Street’s Bhavna Limbachia and Matt were invited in to talk about the hard-hitting Rana + Kate storyline currently in the soap, and its…
BBC Asian Network’s Qasa Alom interviews Matt about ‘coming out’ to religious parents
byWhat should a young gay person do if they struggling to ‘coming out’ their family?
His boyfriend of 13 years committed suicide – now he’s fighting back
byI talk to Gay Star News about losing my darling Naz, the impact of honour based abuse on the LGBTQI+ community, and our Foundation’s…
Advice for parents struggling to accept their LGBTQI+ children – BBC Asian Network
byBBC Asian Network invited me in to talk about our progress over the last four years since my darling Naz passed away. What have…
Matt delivers keynote talk at University of Birmingham Medical School event
byAs part of LGBTHistoryMonth 2018 I am proud, and incredibly humbled to be invited by the University of Birmingham Medical School (where my darling Naz trained…