The following organisations were funded by the Mayor of London’s Shared Endeavour Fund, an £800,000 investment by City Hall and Google.org to empower communities to tackle violent extremism and a rise in hate crime offences in London. To learn more about the specific projects being funded, click on any of the organisations and a summary of their project will appear.
This project works with marginalised women from mainly central Asian refugee and migrant communities delivering weekly workshops which will reduce the influence of factors conducive to extremist views, develop shared values, and build community cohesion. It will identify issues affecting the local community that increase marginalisation and other precursors of radicalisation whilst acknowledging the feelings of loss of identity and displacement caused by migration – forced or otherwise. Factors and issues include radical and extremist interpretations of religion, cultural practices brought from countries of origin that counter universal human rights and the rights and treatment of women. The workshops will acknowledge the leadership role women can play in the family, and in the wider community.
This project will provide information and skills to young people to write ‘citizen journalist’ pieces which counter hate, intolerance, extremism and radicalisation and encourage others to stand up to racism and bigotry.
This innovative project delivers countering hate and intolerance work with primary school age children though the medium of finger puppets, cartoons and a giant jigsaw. This project promotes respect and thoughtfulness whilst also raising awareness in what young people should do if they encounter intolerance attitudes.
This project aims to raise awareness and increase resilience to the dangers of hateful, intolerant and extremist messages particularly those related to anti-immigrant / anti-migrant sentiment through interactive, connective storytelling, based on the book which speaks to the experiences of a refugee pupil in school. The participants will participate in the creation of short animations to conclude the project.
This project will work directly with marginalised women primarily of BAME background to raise awareness of online hateful, intolerant and extremist material and build capacity in participants to challenge this and protect and safeguard their family members through online safety training.
This project which will be led by former members of far-right organisations will work across non-Prevent funded local authority areas in London where there has been historical activity around right-wing extremism activism and recruitment. The project will deliver workshops to local actors who have traction in their communities who will have their capacity increased through awareness raising and training so that they can spot the indications of vulnerability to right-wing extremism radicalisation and understand where help and support can be sought out. The direct beneficiaries will also be trained to convey counter and alternative narratives to those promoted by right-wing extremists allowing them to stand up to hate, intolerance and extremism in their local areas. The project will also promote the support available to existing far-right group members and supporters around exiting these organisations as well as creating a London Facebook page where information and support signposting can be hosted.
This project provides football sessions and workshops for young people (boys and girls) aged 13-18years. The project will bring young people from different backgrounds together to engage in a physical activity and learn about each other’s differences and similarities in a positive equality and diversity framework. The football sessions and workshops will actively promote community cohesion and identify, explore and challenge hateful, intolerant or extremist views. The project will raise awareness of the dangers of these views and their prevalence in the local area through providing capacity building against these and signposting to help and support.
This project provides football sessions and workshops for young people (boys and girls) aged 13-18years. The project will bring young people from different backgrounds together to engage in a physical activity and learn about each other’s differences and similarities in a positive equality and diversity framework. The football sessions and workshops will actively promote community cohesion and identify, explore and challenge hateful, intolerant or extremist views. The project will raise awareness of the dangers of these views and their prevalence in the local area through providing capacity building against these and signposting to help and support.
This project will use the innovative Groundswell mapping tool to showcase and amplify all Shared Endeavour Fund projects supporting recruitment, amplifying this work, creating opportunities for networking & collaboration. Members of the new Shared Endeavour Network will also be invited to map their services on the tool. The Groundswell platform will also be used to promote information and advice as well as deliver capacity building opportunities such as webinars.
This project provides a practical, innovative and positive intervention to challenge prejudice, intolerance and hate through working with children aged 9-12. The project is centred on an award-winning book and linked exhibition comprising photodocumentary and historical images. The story at the heart of this project will engage children and provide the tool through which they can safely and sensitively discuss all aspects of hateful, intolerant and extremist messages and work out (1) what hate incidents, hate crimes are (2) practical methods to deal with incidents should they occur and (3) built resistance to prevent incidents from happening in the first place. The process supports victims, challenges perpetrators, raises awareness and reduces isolation.
This project will train community ambassadors representing all major faiths in London. The capacity building sessions will focus on hate, intolerance, extremism and radicalisation and will give ambassadors the skills and confidence to offer alternative and counter narratives whilst standing up to racism, bigotry and extremism. These ambassadors will then work with individuals who are vulnerable to or holding of mildly intolerant views to divert them away from hate.
This project will deliver work with marginalised women through workshops and coffee mornings. These sessions will aim to build capacity in participants to recognise and tackle issues around hate, intolerance and extremism whilst also challenging potentially intolerant views of other communities by highlighting commonality.
This project will include the delivery of interactive workshops to young people which raise awareness of hate, intolerance, extremism and radicalisation, builds resilience against radicalisation and empowers participants to stand up to hate and extremism. The project will work with schools to identify and build capacity in an ambassadorial group of young women who will receive in-depth training and will work together in building digital campaign materials which will be published on social media targeting tens of thousands of views.
This project will involve creative writing workshops and assemblies in schools, which encourage young people to reflect upon the experiences of asylum seekers and refugees, challenging stereotypes and working to highlight the positive contributions of migrant communities and build empathy. This will challenge the narrative of far-right extremists and mitigate the risk of young people becoming preparators of anti-migrant / anti-refugee hate.
This project has three key outputs. To deliver training and awareness raising to marginalised women about countering extremism issues, building capacity and offering advice on how they can safeguard their children and families. To train peer advocates from a cohort of local young people to act as role models in challenging hate, intolerance, extremism and radicalisation. And to create a toolkit for local religious leaders to support them to challenge extremism and raise awareness of radicalising influences.
This sports-based project works with young people and challenges hate, intolerance and extremism through the lens of KOing racism. This project will particularly focus on raising awareness about the dangers on online hateful content whilst promoting diversity, respect and tolerance through boxing role models (including a boxer who represented GB).
This project facilitates a series of workshops where marginalised mothers can come together in a supportive, informal and welcoming environment to further learn about online risks to their children, collectively explore strategies to positively address the negative and potentially powerful effects of online radicalisation movements, share, debate and learn together about how best to address and mitigate against the effects of online and social media threats and enable socially isolated women to explore complex themes discussed in face-to-face workshops facilitated by women from similar backgrounds.
This project is an interfaith programme, which brings facilitators from Jewish and Muslim backgrounds into the school classroom, creating a safe space for young people to explore issues of discrimination and racism, and providing expert advice on the specific topics of anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim hate that are specific to the local area (through collaborations with leading counter-hate organisations such as Tell MAMA and the CST).
This schools based project will create a safe community in which students and teachers explore together challenging issues related to extremism; develop pupils’ understanding and critical thinking in relation to extremism and terrorism and build their resilience to hate, intolerance and extremism; provide pupils with the awareness, skills and confidence to stand up against hate, intolerance and extremism at school, at home and in the community; empower teachers to address the controversial issues relating to extremism and terrorism with confidence and professional expertise; enable schools to embed teaching and learning about extremism into their own curricula to provide longer term sustainability.
This project will work with a cohort of marginalised and disadvantaged young people. It will deliver workshops raising awareness of hateful, intolerant and extremist ideologies. These will be led by a former member of a far-right organisation who has rejected violence and is now committed to exposing and eradicating far-right extremism and a hero Imam who stopped members of his congregation from retaliating against the terrorist who attacked worshippers outside Finsbury Park mosque during Ramadan 2017. The project will increase resilience in young people and offer them a counter narrative to that promoted by extremists. The workshops will challenge hateful ideologies through lived experience and theology. Upon culmination of the project beneficiaries will be able to challenge extremist and divisive narratives through peer to peer dialogue.
This project works to encourage and empower students and educators to stand up to hate by raising awareness of the issue and delivering capacity building lesson plans for teachers which give young people the skills and tools to stand up to hate, intolerance and extremism and support the safeguarding of vulnerable people from radicalisation. The project will comprise of a variety of activities and sessions delivered directly to students, aimed at helping students to understand how to identify stereotypes, discrimination and hate, and what they can do as young people to combat it. The teacher packages will consist of resources, tools and training sessions aimed at helping educators to understand how to help their students to identify the issues relating to hate and intolerance.
This project works in parallel with two groups of young college students (one disadvantaged British born, showing early signs of vulnerability to right-wing extremism and the other unaccompanied refugees and asylum seekers, who show vulnerability towards religious extremism) who live in close proximity but who show signs of prejudice, animosity and the possibilities of being drawn into extremist thoughts and groupings. The project will conduct counter hate and intolerance work with both groups separately before eventually brining the groups together through conflict resolution facilitation.
This is a ground-breaking new project that will, over 7-months, train more than 300 new community builders across London, equipping them with the skills, confidence, and knowledge they need to: build strong communities resilient to hate, intolerance and extremism; empower, encourage and support other community members to stand up to hate, intolerance and extremism and counter, and offer positive alternatives to the promotion of hateful, intolerant and extremist messages and content, including fake news and misinformation.
This project takes a cohort of local young people mixing refugees with other local youths (representing multiple ethnic, religious and sexual orientation demographics) to learn about refugees’ experiences, hate, intolerance and extremism through film making and arts creation. Participants will participate in capacity building that will give them the skills to stand up to bigotry and racism.
This project will provide positive activities for young people such as football and fitness, supplemented by workshops on good citizenship and critical thinking delivered by mentors. As trust is built within this cohort mentors we will then deliver workshops on key extremist and hate incidents in London discussing the circumstances and extremist narratives that led to these events and how beneficiaries can inspire their own communities positively to ensure that history is not repeated, and that there is no place for hate.
The project will equip young people with the knowledge, skills and confidence to stand up to hate, intolerance and extremism. The project will give young people a platform in their schools and communities to increase their resilience to the dangers of hate, intolerance, extremism and radicalisation. Through mixing the historic story of Anne Frank and the Holocaust with local contemporary examples of prejudice and discrimination allows the beneficiaries to better understand the dangers of intolerance and where it can potentially lead.
This project works with college students who have previously exhibited hateful and intolerant behaviour including those linked to extremist ideologies. Beneficiaries will participate in a 16-week programme where they will be supported in moving away from hateful, intolerant and extremist behaviours and instead become ambassadors for equality and diversity.
This project includes multiple sub-projects set across universities in London which combat anti-Semitism and hate in London offline and online. The first is several live performances of a fringe play which focuses on anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, exposing their insidious nature through humour and storytelling. After each performance there will be a follow up workshop which will cover where to report anti-Semitism, racism or other faith-based hate on campus alongside upstander intervention training to empower students to stand up to hate and intolerance. The project will also deliver standalone anti-Semitism awareness training for other student union peers which includes a guide on how to support Jewish students who are victims of hate. Finally, the project will also create a digital campaign which will include online resources featuring a range of voices and hard-hitting information to educate students about anti-Semitism and hate on campus and how to tackle it.
This project will train young people into becoming games makers who will facilitate an innovative and impactful game which highlights issues of hatred and intolerance and promotes positive dialogue and highlights commonality in players. Games makers will deploy this game in areas of historical higher prevalence of hate, intolerance and extremism.
This project is led by a Premier League football in the community trust and is delivered in partnership with the award-winning organisation Show Racism the Red Card. The project will deliver school-based assemblies led by a football legend who will speak of their own experience of racism and prejudice. The project will also include extremism workshops which will explore different manifestations of hate and intolerance as well as preventative workshops which will build capacity in young people to challenge bigoted opinions as well as increasing mitigation against radicalisation. The project will also explore unconscious and conscious bias through health and wellbeing sessions.
This project will use an online educational live performance and lesson plan to support teachers to facilitate extremist narratives relevant to their local context. The lesson plans will improve empathy and understanding of how it feels to be on the receiving end of hate boosting awareness of hate, intolerance and extremism and encouraging participants to become active upstanders challenging hate and intolerance. The project will promote shared values, including mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs, increase feelings of unity in diversity, and boost positive attitudes and beliefs around difference in London, by challenging myths and misconceptions held around individuals and groups both within and outside their local communities. The project will also strengthen understanding of technology and how it works for and against users.