 With her work at MPACUK, Heseltine was ranked by "Time Out" at position 17 in London's 100 top movers and shakers 2006.Heseltine used to be a nursery teacher until elected as the CEO of MPACUK in 2010.Heseltine joined MPACUK because she believed it would help in "empowering Muslims in mainstream politics and media, dealing with Islamophobia" and lead campaign against "discrimination against women in mosques, poverty and the situation in Palestine".