Explaining the Recent Silence

Over the past 6 months, I've done a poor job at keeping Overcome supporters up-to-date. The truth is that there hasn't been much to share and ...

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Our Highest Priority (and How You Can Help)

People are usually impressed by Overcome when they discover its underlying model of building infrastructure that lets people help themselves accept Is...

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The Key to Achieving Overcome's Vision

Completing the spiritual & intellectual journey towards Islam is difficult for most people as it requires them to... open their minds to an &qu...

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Want to multiply the value of your donations?

The 2018 Muslim Lifestyle Expo 2018 in Manchester is just a few months away and we need your help to exhibit there! Overcome, by the grace ...

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How Things Went at MLS 2018

By the Numbers Following on from last year's success, we exhibited at the London Muslim Lifestyle Show at Kensington Olympia last weekend. Alhamd...

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Can You Fund Our Presence at MLS 2018?

We get our long-term funding through small recurring donations made by Muslims that want a share of the reward for helping people accept Islam. The f...

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November by the Numbers

Traffic: 800 visitors per week By the end of November, we were attracting 800 visitors per week. This puts us 11% of the way towards our research-base...

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Meet Adam, the Overcome chatbot

We’re delighted to introduce you to the latest addition to the Overcome team. And he’s a robot called Adam. If you take a look at the bot...

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Joining the Overcome Support Network

"I'm an 18 year old girl from India in the last year of school. My life is full of troubles and I have no support from my family. I like Isla...

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Using Google AdWords to Attract Traffic

Our primary goal has always been for borderline converts to discover Overcome when they ask Google for help with their journeys. In the long run, we...

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Crowdsourcing Conversion Advice

Being a borderline convert is a lonely experience; it's personal, you rarely share it with others and you feel like you're the only person ...

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The Overcome CRM is Rocking!

Whilst there are lots of tools on the market to help organisations manage relationships, finding one that matches your exact needs is a challenge. A...

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October's Shahadas

Alhamdulillah, last month, we helped 3 people to overcome and make their shahadas:   Debby; female in her 50s from the UK Craig; male in ...

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Goodbye t-shirts, hello tabards

Up until recently, we'd ask volunteers to wear t-shirts with the Overcome logo on the front and back. These helped draw people's attention tow...

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How things went at the Muslim Lifestyle Expo

Alhamdulillah, our presence at the Muslim Lifestyle Expo in Manchester was a success!   In total, we attracted 59 new patrons that are now...

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Are you a passionate, articulate and young convert?

Are you a passionate and articulate young person who has converted to Islam? Have your parents tried to convince you otherwise? If so, BBC THREE wants...

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Why you should donate sooner rather than later

Did you know that more than 1,000 people became millionaires when Facebook went public? They were the early-stage investors whose faith in Facebook m...

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How things went at Losing My Religion

As mentioned last week, we stayed on in the UK to exhibit at the Losing My Religion conference. We did what we could to improve our exhibition framewo...

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How things went at MLS London

Last month, we exhibited at RIS Malaysia. It was our first-ever exhibition and our monthly recurring donations went up by $850. Of course, the resul...

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How things went at RIS Malaysia

A few days before it began, someone recommended us to attend RIS Malaysia as an exhibitor. Although we didn't know this, non-profits often raise f...

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How things went in the UK

We've just returned from the UK and wanted to update everyone as to how the trip went. Alhamdulillah, Allah made everything very easy for us and,...

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Where are the women?

This post is for women who have embraced Islam. If that isn't you, then please share it with your Muslim network, hoping that they share it with t...

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Our UK Schedule

Alhamdulillah, having spent a few days in the UK, coordinating with numerous organisations and activists, we've finally put together the schedule ...

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Don't be surprised by the longer videos!

Up until recently, our videos have been short and snappy. We did this on purpose because... Short concentration spans would welcome short videos. ...

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We've got our bank account

Natwest has approved our application for a bank account. Alhamdulillah, this means that we can receive donations directly into our bank account, can ...

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We've integrated with Stripe

Up until now, we've been using Patreon as the platform through which patrons give us financial support. But Patreon has been problematic in 2 majo...

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Sad News for YouTube Channel Owners

Up until today, we encouraged YouTubers to upload our videos to their channels. We even gave explicit permission to save them from potential copy...

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Welcoming the Written Word

We're happy to announce that we now support written stories. And we've published our first one, which is of Hedaya Hartford, the author of Com...

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The Good Deeds That Go Unnoticed

Alhamdulillah, this morning, we received this email from a brother in America... Assalamu allaykum warahmatulahi wabarakatahu, I would like to deli...

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Shaykh Faraz Rabani Endorses overcome.tv

Shaykh Faraz Rabani has honoured us with the following endoresement of overcome.tv overcome.tv is an excellent and inspiring resource that shares th...

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We're Registered In The UK

A few days ago, we discovered that Patreon adds VAT to European patrons. Considering that some European countries go up to 27%, we need to move away f...

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It's Time to Crowdfund overcome.tv

overcome.tv took flight through the generous donations of some angel investors. But now that it's airborne, we need to ensure that we cover our co...

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Back from the UAE

We've just come back from a weekend of filming in the UAE. Ma sha Allah, as always, listening to the stories of so many reverts was truly inspirin...

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Going Behind the Glass Wall

As a not-for-profit, we depend on the help of everyday Muslims who volunteer their skills, networks or finances. As such, securing that help is a high...

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