A local charity from Preston has become the pioneering developers of an instrumental project along one of busiest motorways in Britain. The enduring project aimed at providing Muslims travelling across the UK the opportunity to offer daily prayers was given the go ahead from directors.

Hilton park services on the M6 near Birmingham, and was granted a license for the charity to occupy a special designated room for prayers with also purpose built and equipped ablution facilities.

Hilton park services at junction 19A off the M6 is notably the first service station in the UK to offer a prayer room and although the license was granted in December 2006, little is known about the facilities, and travellers who for many years struggled to find suitable praying or wash facilities, now need to take advantage of this much needed amenity.

Quite often, Muslims are forced to offer prayers outside the services where they could find a bare patch at the car park or nook behind the buildings. Furthermore, they found it difficult to perform ablution in the toilet washbasins particularly during busy periods, which caused inconvenience to regular users who find individuals removing their socks and placing bare feet into washbasins unsightly.

The local Preston based charity aims to use this project as a pilot scheme to acquire more locations for prayers at crucial motorway services across the UK.

So the next time, you travel past Birmingham on the M6, stop and have a look, we promise you will find it very impressive.