Lancashire Council of Mosques was established in 1989 as an umbrella organisation representing all the Mosques and religious teaching institutions in Lancashire.

The initial establishment was fuelled by a desire to provide a united and uniform platform in order to promote the needs and aspirations of the county’s Muslim community.

LCM has, through the support of its affiliated Mosque organisations and Lancashire County Council, endeavoured over the last decade to place the individual and collective needs of the Asian heritage community firmly on the agenda of all service providers within the county.

The scope of LCM activities covers the varied areas of training, employment, education, health, mass media and social issues.

A secondary task has been to promote the awareness of the faith of Islam among the indigenous population, with the aim of fostering understanding and better community relations. The underlying ethos of all activities of LCM has been and will continue to be a shared vision of future community relations within Lancashire.

There is an appreciation that the issues of common concern within the community have to be tackled in a partnership community approach.

LCM believes it has made outstanding progress in the achievement of its broad objectives and will continue to pursue the challenges of the future.