Fiyaz Mughal is the Founder and Director of Faith Matters and the national Islamophobic monitoring project, TELL MAMA. Fiyaz was also appointed to be on the Working Group for Communities that was linked to the Extremism Task Force developed in 2005 after the 7/7 bombings. An elected member IDeA Peer Mentor for national work with local authorities on the Preventing Violent Extremism agenda, (2008), Fiyaz was also previously appointed by the Secretary of State for the Department for Communities and Local Government (the Rt Hon Hazel Blears MP) to be a member of the Local Delivery Advisory Group on Preventing Violent Extremism.