Countering Violent Extremism

The Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) would like to thank the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) for the comprehensive Shared Endeavour Fund (SEF) Call 1 Evaluation Report, which can be accessed here.

We are pleased to note the positive findings of the report including that “Projects supported by the Shared Endeavour Fund had a significant impact on the resilience of Londoners to hate, intolerance and extremism, particularly in terms of their tolerance for others, support for democracy and rule of law, and sense of civic engagement.”

We also welcome the recommendations made by ISD. We commissioned this independent evaluation to assist us to improve the administration and most importantly the impact of this important fund and the vital work it delivers in London.

We can update that all recommendations have been accepted and are now complete. We have included a summary below to show evidence of our fulfilment of these.

Finally, we look forward to working with colleagues in ISD’s Strong Cities Network (SCN) to complete the evaluation of Call 2 of the Shared Endeavour Fund.

Following the success of Call 1 of the Mayor's Shared Endeavour Fund, Call 2 awarded £600,000 worth of grants to 19 civil society and community-based organisations delivering activities throughout London. Running from October 2021 to June 2022, Shared Endeavour Fund projects addressed a range of recognised harms related to hate and extremism from across the ideological spectrum; these included racism, antisemitism, anti-Muslim hate, misinformation / disinformation, polarisation and radicalisation.

We have now published the evaluation, carried out by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) into Call 2 of the Shared Endeavour Fund, in line with our commitment to evidence-based policy making.

The evaluation found that the Shared Endeavour Fund was successful in building Londoners’ resilience to radicalisation and extremist recruitment, and reducing racism, intolerance, hate and extremism in the capital. Funded projects made statistically significant contributions to all of the scheme’s strategic objectives, with the majority of outcomes measured revealing large effect sizes. 

Read the Call 2 Evaluation Report.

On 9 May 2022, the Mayor of London launched Call Three of the Shared Endeavour Fund. Call Three picked up from the previous round of funding and offered over £700,000 of grants for projects running from 5 September 2022 to 31 March 2023. The performance period for project delivery was later extended to 30 April 2023, increasing the time available for project activities from seven to eight months. The decision to extend the performance period was taken at the request of grantees delivering schools-based projects that had struggled to access students during the 2023 teacher strikes.

Read the full Evaluation Report of Call Three here. 

The projects supported by the Shared Endeavour Fund tackle a broad array of symptoms of racism, hate and extremism, working in partnership with communities and stakeholders across London. The projects funded by the third round of the Shared Endeavour Fund (between 2022-2023) are detailed below:

Arc Theatre

Unlimited - Countering hate and extremism for primary school children and staff 

Barking & Dagenham, Havering, Newham, Redbridge

This project uses a high-quality live theatre performance and accompanying lesson plan to support primary school teachers to facilitate countering hate and extremism sessions based on the performed story alongside inclusion of content relevant to their researched local context. The theatre piece and lesson plans improve empathy and understanding of how it feels to be on the receiving end of hate, boosting awareness of intolerance and extremism and encouraging participants to reject hate and become active up-standers. The project will promote shared values including mutual respect and understanding of different faiths and beliefs increasing feelings of unity in diversity. By challenging myths and misconceptions held around individuals and groups both within and outside their local communities it will boost positive attitudes and beliefs around difference in London. Furthermore, the accompanying workshops includes critical age-appropriate awareness raising on digital safety and mis and disinformation.

Catalyst in Communities

Re:Solve - Changing Minds in Challenging Times

Newham

RE:Solve is a creative, rights based group-work intervention programme enabling participants to improve their ‘RE:Solve’ and resilience. The project will coach young people so that they can better navigate their life challenges, opportunities and problems in a positive, pro-social and productive manner. The project will support young people, no matter what their starting point is or what has happened in their pasts, to find the inner-strength to reject hateful ideologies of all kinds and to relate to others in pro-social ways - even when they have fundamentally opposing viewpoints. RE:Solve is the synthesis of many years of CIC's work in the behavioural change sector with young people vulnerable to exploitation. The project focuses on facilitating meaningful, powerful and transformational conversations around identity. How identity is formed, developed, with whom and how views / opinions and beliefs about our and others identity can be communicated, shared and nurtured.

Chelsea FC Foundation

Standing Together

Brent, Greenwich, Hammersmith & Fulham, Kensington & Chelsea, Lambeth, Wandsworth

Using the power of the Chelsea FC brand alongside access to facilities and resources that will truly inspire participants, this project will empower young Londoners to reject hate and give them the confidence to stand up to intolerance. The project will work with secondary school age young people through delivering assemblies and supporting teachers to facilitate discussions on racism, hate, intolerance and extremism. This will be followed by more focussed online workshops which expand the learning out to critical thinking, media prejudice and allyship. Beneficiaries will then be invited to Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge stadium to participate in a day of thematic workshops, learning and peer to peer knowledge sharing.

Connect Futures

Fake News, Extremism and Truth

Camden, Ealing, Southwark, Westminster

This project will work with young people in Pupil Referral Units (PRUs) to deliver multiple workshops which give participants a greater conceptual understanding of misinformation and disinformation. These will increase beneficiaries’ ability to spot misinformation, particularly where this is used as an exploitative tool. Workshops will reduce the likelihood of participants engaging in harmful, dangerous or even illegal activities promoted online.

EXIT Hate UK

London Peace Advocates

Barking & Dagenham, Bexley, Bromley, Camden, Croydon, Enfield, Greenwich, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Islington, Merton, Sutton

This project works with community members and professionals to develop a cadre of local actors who live or work in areas targeted by the Far Right. Participants will receive training to understand what Far Right extremism is, how it operates, how it influences people’s opinions and how it seeks to recruit (both online and offline). This enables beneficiaries to challenge hateful ideologies by engaging with people who might be preyed upon by the Far Right or even have Far Right sympathies. Participants will be trained and supported to offer alternative viewpoints to hate, to raise awareness of and build resilience to Far Right narratives whilst also being signposted to where further help and support can be found. London Community Champions will be delivered through workshops led by those with lived experience of Far Right extremism including former members of Far Right groups alongside family members of those radicalised into the Far Right.

Faith Associates

Muslim Digital Safety Ambassadors & Citizens Programme

Brent, Bromley, Ealing, Hackney, Newham, Wandsworth

This project includes classroom-based training workshops that give young Muslims the confidence to challenge intolerance and build resilience to online harms such as online hate and radicalisation through the pairing of digital skills capacity building and religious studies. Alongside these workshops, selected participants will become project Ambassadors and be provided with further interactive mentoring, technical and theological support to allow them to become peer leaders. Training and support is delivered in the classroom as well as in religious institutions such as Mosques and Madrassahs. The project will develop a group of model digital citizens working towards tackling all forms of hatred and promoting safety online and offline. The programme uses ‘real life’ scenarios for the beneficiaries to interact with and explore, developing characters, background stories and scenarios relating to becoming a model digital citizen who stands up to hate, intolerance and extremism.

Future M.O.L.D.S Communities

Sport Unites Us

Barking & Dagenham

This project intersperses football and boxing sessions for young people with workshops and one-to-one interventions that address sentiments of hate and intolerance. Sessions bring different young people from across the borough together to engage in positive free activity and learn about each other’s differences and similarities. The workshops champion the importance of equality and diversity and actively promote cohesion alongside challenging hateful, intolerant and extremist views. The Project raises awareness of the dangers of these harms and highlights the local prevalence and manifestation of these whilst boosting capacity in beneficiaries to reject them whilst also signposting where to seek help if needed.

Groundswell Project

Communities Countering Hate (CCH)

Enfield, Haringey, Lewisham, Newham

This project raises awareness of the dangers of radicalisation, extremism and hate narratives among young people at secondary schools and colleges. Using the power of storytelling Groundswell anchor in-class workshops with a series of short videos based on the personal experiences of former extremists, sharing their radicalisation process and highlighting intervention opportunities by focussing on the push and pull factors that created vulnerability utilised by radical groomers in their exploitation. Sessions are delivered by reformed Far-Right and so-called Islamist Extremist members who combine together to reject all forms of hate and inoculate participants against the dangers of radicalisation.   

Heartstone

Heartstone Story Circles

Croydon, Hackney

This project provides a practical, innovative and positive intervention to challenge prejudice, intolerance and hate through working with young people aged 9-12 in schools and libraries. It is centred on a book whose story engages young people and provides the tool through which they can safely and sensitively discuss all aspects of hateful and intolerant messages, learning about the harms of intolerance, understanding what Hate Crimes are and developing practical methods to deal with these harms. The process supports victims, challenges perpetrators, raises awareness of hate and intolerance and reduces isolation. It also deconstructs, at a young age, narratives of hate towards all protected characteristics. 

Integrity UK

Beyond Dialogue

Barking & Dagenham, Brent, Lambeth, Lewisham, Newham, Redbridge, Tower Hamlets

This project enhances the mentoring capabilities of a diverse array of specialist community leaders and frontline practitioners. Once specialist capacity building has concluded, this cohort will mentor several young people potentially vulnerable to hate, violence, and extremism. The project enhances the mentors’ skillset to challenge the emerging and diversifying threats around so-called Islamist extremism and intracommunity sectarianism. The project builds upon their previous work in this area and utilises mentors trusted positions in grass roots communities to allow them to support young people potentially vulnerable to radicalisation or hateful views to move away from negative potential pathways and positions.

JAN Trust

SAFE Workshops

Barnet, Enfield, Haringey, Islington

JAN Trust will deliver its SAFE workshops with young people in secondary schools. These increase beneficiaries’ media literacy and support capacity in them to know how to stay safe online and become resilient to extremist. These workshops also raise awareness of the dangers of radicalisation inoculating participants against future exploitation to extremism.

Maccabi GB

Stand Up! Education Against Discrimination

Barking & Dagenham, Barnet, Bexley, Brent, Camden, City of London, Croydon, Ealing, Enfield, Greenwich, Hackney, Hammersmith & Fulham, Haringey, Hackney, Harrow, Havering, Hillingdon, Islington, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Newham, Redbridge, Sutton, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, Westminster

This project is an interfaith programme, which brings Jewish and Muslim facilitators into the school classroom to speak with one voice in challenging anti-Muslim hate and antisemitism. These workshops also create a safe space for young people to explore and learn about issues of all forms of discrimination, racism and extremism. They provide expert advice and first hand lived experience on the specific topics of antisemitism and anti-Muslim hate.  Workshop content is tailored to the specific local area through collaborations with leading counter-hate organisations such as Tell MAMA and the CST (Community Security Trust).

Manorfield Charitable Trust

Building Resilience to Extremism through Enquiry (B.R.E.E.)

Haringey, Lambeth, Merton

This project builds the capacity of teachers to use the academically endorsed ‘Philosophy for Children’ method to teach young people in years 5 and 6 of primary school to think critically and independently about hate, intolerance and extremism across an intensive 14-week programme. This includes creating a safe community in which participants and teachers explore together, in an age-appropriate way, challenging issues related to extremism and radicalisation which develops the beneficiaries understanding of these harms; improves their critical thinking skills whilst also building their capacity to reject hate and intolerance. The project will empower teachers through building their professional expertise enabling participating schools to embed teaching and learning about extremism into their own curricula in an age-specific and impactful way within the project lifespan alongside wider longer-term sustainability.

Naz Legacy Foundation

Diversity Days

Barking & Dagenham, Camden, Croydon, Lambeth, Merton, Redbridge, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, Wandsworth, Westminster

This project delivers workshops in schools raising awareness of hateful, intolerant and extremist ideologies alongside sessions promoting active citizenship and participation. The extremism sessions will be led by a former Far Right member who has rejected hate and is now committed to exposing and eradicating extremism alongside a hero Imam who stopped members of his congregation from retaliating against the terrorist who attacked worshippers in Finsbury Park during Ramadan 2017. The workshops will challenge hateful ideologies through lived experience and theology, increasing resilience in young people and offering them a counter narrative to messaging promoted by extremists. The civic participation sessions will encourage integration and inclusion and the project will also deliver several "Diversity Days", in which marginalised participants are taken to various cultural and business institutions to learn about the rich heritage of diverse communities within London and to showcase positive pathways to successful participation in society.

Pan Intercultural Arts

Building Bridges

Newham

This project will work with young adults in a London college where there are noted tensions between two specific cohorts. Building Bridges uses the arts and psychosocial resilience building measures to develop reflective and critical thinking in both cohorts which will allow recognition that people who are from communities seen as “other” may not be as different as people might think, that they are not a threat and that they do not have negative intentions. This conflict resolution project will build capacity for all participants to reject hate and intolerance of so-called out-groups and become role models for promoting diversity and inclusion.

Protection Approaches

London's Active Upstanders

Protection Approaches and junior project partner the British East and Southeast Asian Network (BESEAN) will train over 1,000 Londoners to become ‘active upstanders’, empowering them to actively, confidently and safely challenge intolerant, hateful and extremist attitudes and behaviours that they encounter. Beneficiaries of the training will include secondary school age young people alongside key community members.

Salaam Peace

Positive Routes

Hackney, Haringey, Newham, Waltham Forest

This project provides positive activities for young people and adults such as football and fitness supplemented by workshops on good citizenship, active civic participation and critical thinking delivered by credible local mentors. As trust is built within this cohort, mentors then deliver workshops on key terrorist, extremist and hate incidents in London discussing the circumstances and extremist narratives that led to these events and inoculating participants from harmful ideologies. Furthermore, the project focusses on how beneficiaries can be empowered to inspire their own communities positively to ensure that history is not repeated underscoring that there is no place for hate. Participants will include beneficiaries who have been referred to the project from local practitioners in policing, probation and local government.

Shout Out UK

Countering the Far-Right through Media Literacy

Barnet, Haringey, Islington

This project will work with young people in Pupil Referral Units to deliver media literacy training, build emotional resilience and develop critical thinking skills whilst teaching participants how to stay protected against extremist ideologies on popular and newly emerging social media platforms. The programme will also conduct media literacy training sessions for teachers and other school practitioners to embed into their work. Beneficiaries will explore digital literacy and critical thinking application through the lens of countering Far Right extremism, but this project builds inoculation to a host of online harms and creates mitigation against extremist ideologies across the spectrum.

Solutions not Sides

Youth Education Programme

Barnet, Camden, Hammersmith & Fulham, Haringey, Redbridge, Waltham Forest

This project consists of a three-part programme for young people in schools and colleges which focuses on the conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. This project allows participants to learn more about Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories and provides a safe space for them to discuss their views and learn about the views of others in a way that avoids hatred towards people of different backgrounds or those who hold differing perspectives. Beneficiaries experience diverse historical narratives from Israeli and Palestinian perspectives, hear personal stories from actors in the region and have humanising dialogue with Israeli and Palestinian speakers. Furthermore, participants undertake a solutions-focussed workshop using conflict resolution and critical thinking skills to focus on win-win resolutions rather than lose-win ones.

Tomorrow’s Leaders

Future Leaders

Barking & Dagenham, Brent, Ealing, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest

This is a 26-week award winning capacity building and leadership programme that works with college age young people in East and West London.  Participants receive comprehensive training, awareness-raising and capacity-building content to empower them to stand up for diversity and speak out against hate, driving positive change in their local communities and educational organisations. Beneficiaries of this project engage with several high-profile key speakers ranging from former extremists to leading politicians through to industry leading experts. The project installs self-belonging and supports the participants to flourish in wider society whilst becoming active upstanders on challenging discrimination and hate.

West Ham United Foundation

Stop the Hate

Barking & Dagenham, Havering, Newham, Redbridge, Tower Hamlets

Led by Premier League football club West Ham United’s Community Foundation in partnership with the award-winning anti-racism organisation Show Racism the Red Card, this project delivers secondary school-based assemblies led by a professional football legend who speaks of their own experience of racism and prejudice within the game and society and encourages others to reject intolerant attitudes. The project also includes focussed workshops on extremism and radicalisation alongside unconscious and conscious bias training. These sessions explore different manifestations of hate and intolerance as well as building capacity in young people to reject and challenge bigoted opinions.

The following projects are being supported by Call 4 (2023-24) of the Shared Endeavour Fund:

Tomorrow’s Leaders – Future Leaders Programme 

This 24-week, award winning leadership programme will be delivered to college-aged students across the North, South, East and West of London. The project develops young people’s skills, confidence and aspirations though exposure to inspirational speakers, workshops, team building days and visits. Participants will become peer leaders in challenging all forms of hate and intolerance and will develop individual inoculation to radicalisation as well as an ability to identify vulnerability in others. 

Maccabi GB – Stand Up! Education Against Discrimination 

This interfaith programme brings Jewish and Muslim facilitators into the school classroom to create a safe space for young people to explore and learn about issues of discrimination, racism and extremism. They provide expert advice and first-hand lived experience on the specific topics of antisemitism and anti-Muslim hate.  Workshop content is tailored to the specific local area through collaborations with leading counter-hate organisations such as Tell MAMA and the CST (Community Security Trust). 

Integrity UK – Beyond Dialogues 

This project enhances the mentoring capabilities of a diverse array of specialist community leaders and frontline practitioners. Once specialist capacity building has concluded, this cohort will mentor several young people exhibiting current or potential indicators of vulnerability to hate, violence, and extremism. The project enhances the mentors’ skillset to challenge the emerging and diversifying threats around Islamist extremism and intracommunity sectarianism, building on their prior work in this area and utilising their trusted positions in grassroots communities to allow them to support young people potentially vulnerable to radicalisation or hateful views away from negative potential pathways and positions. 

ConnectFutures - Fake News, Extremism and Truth: Targeted PRU and Complex Needs Programme  

This project builds greater understanding of misinformation and extremism alongside increasing critical thinking skills when navigating online media. Delivered in Pupil Referral Units (PRUs) and other alternative education provisions across London, the sessions will include use of interactive games, activities and discussions guided by an experienced facilitator. This will improve participants’ ability to recognise and appropriately respond to online misinformation, conspiracy theories, and grooming by criminals and extremists.  

St Giles Trust – Building Resilience Against Violence (and) Extremism (BRAVE) Project 

The BRAVE Project delivers an awareness-raising preventative education workshop, delivered through interactive sessions led by a facilitator with lived experience to engage young people on radicalisation and its parallels and connections to other harms such as serious youth violence, gang membership and county lines. The workshops, which are delivered in schools and PRUs, aim to impart greater awareness of the realities and issues surrounding gang involvement, drugs, violence, extremism and radicalisation, as well as building participants’ resilience in practical, real-world ways.  

Groundswell Project – Communities Countering Hate 

This project raises awareness of the dangers of radicalisation, extremism and hate narratives in London secondary schools through using powerful personal stories from two former extremists. The workshops help to raise awareness as well as building resilience to radicalisation and extremist recruitment. Participants are encouraged to express their opinions about the issues raised in the presentations, share experiences and interact with the presenters who will talk about their own experiences as former Far Right and Islamist extremists. The facilitators also signpost pupils to local community-based organisations in their areas, aiming to encourage civic participation and show young people that they can be part of the solution to hate. 

Shout Out UK - InfoInsight: Raising Awareness to Combat Extremism   

This project delivers a media literacy intervention to young people, which includes the key basic digital and media literacy knowledge required to develop practical and behavioural skills to enable participants to build resilience to online harms including disinformation. Participants will gain increased critical thinking skills as well as a greater understanding of the resources and public support available to safeguard themselves and their peers from hate, intolerance and online radicalisation. 

Protection Approaches – London's Active Upstanders 

This project will train Londoners to become ‘active upstanders,’ empowering them to actively, confidently and safely challenge intolerant, hateful and extremist attitudes and behaviours. The workshops cover: how to de-escalate hateful incidents safely; strategies for engaging those who hold hateful views; how to safely challenge online hate; and community building as a long-term means to confronting intolerant views. 

Exit Hate UK - Vulnerable Support Champions   

This project will upskill frontline practitioners, volunteers and family members who support people with autism, neurodiversity and special educational needs by helping them understand the dangers posed by Extreme Right-Wing ideologies. The project will involve workshops in the community and online, developed and delivered by former Right-Wing extremist Nigel Bromage. The workshops will help participants understand the pathways into extremism, how to effectively counter extremist narratives, and how to build the resilience of those under their care. 

Arc Theatre Ensemble – ‘unlimited’ countering hate and extremism for primary school children and staff  

This project uses a live theatre performance to build resilience in primary-aged children against stereotyping and intolerance for people who are different. This project also includes an accompanying lesson plan to support teachers to facilitate counter extremism sessions based on the performed story and complemented with content relevant to their local context. The theatre piece and lesson plans will improve empathy and understanding of how it feels to be on the receiving end of hate, boosting awareness of intolerance and extremism and encouraging participants to become active up-standers. The project will promote shared values, including mutual respect and understanding of different faiths and beliefs, increase feelings of unity in diversity, and boost positive attitudes and beliefs around differences in London. Furthermore, the accompanying workshops includes critical age-appropriate awareness raising on digital safety and mis- and disinformation. 

Naz Legacy Foundation – Diversity Programme 

This project will deliver workshops in Islamic faith schools and Mosques raising awareness of hateful, intolerant and extremist ideologies alongside sessions promoting active citizenship and participation. Sessions will be led by a hero Imam who stopped members of his congregation from retaliating against the terrorist who attacked worshippers in Finsbury Park during Ramadan in 2017, alongside an Imam who works in HMPPS. The workshops will challenge hateful ideologies through theology, increasing resilience in young people and offering them a counter narrative to messages promoted by extremists.  

Chelsea FC Foundation – Standing Together  

Using the power of the Chelsea FC brand alongside access to facilities and resources that will truly inspire participants, this project will empower young Londoners to reject hate and give them the confidence to stand up to intolerance. The project will work with secondary school-aged young people by delivering assemblies and supporting teachers to facilitate discussions on racism, hate, intolerance and extremism. This will be followed by more focussed online workshops which expand the learning out to critical thinking, media prejudice and allyship. Beneficiaries will then be invited to Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge stadium to participate in a day of thematic workshops, learning and peer to peer knowledge sharing. 

Salaam Peace – Positive Routes 23/24 

This project will provide positive activities for young people such as football and fitness activities, supplemented by workshops on good citizenship and critical thinking delivered by credible local mentors. As trust is built within this cohort, mentors 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. Participants will include beneficiaries who have been referred to the project from local practitioners in policing, probation and local government. 

Global Acts of Unity – Global Acts of Unity Workshop 

Global Acts of Unity (GAU) was founded by Mike Haines whose brother, David, was kidnapped and murdered by a group of British DAESH fighters. GAU’s will counter radicalisation and hateful ideas by promoting positive values as an antidote to hate and discrimination. Mike will deliver workshops to schools where he will tell his personal story. Audiences will hear how Mike made a choice to overcome hatred. He could have hated his brother’s killers, but he knew that if he did, they would have won. Participants will then hear Mike speak about his journey in starting GAU to promote the importance of tolerance, understanding, acceptance and unity. 

Manorfield Charitable Foundation – Building Resilience to extremism through enquiry (BREE) 

This project will build the capacity of teachers to use the ‘Philosophy for Children’ method to teach young people to think critically and independently about hate, intolerance and extremism. This includes creating a safe space in which students and teachers explore challenging issues related to extremism and radicalisation which develops participants’ understanding of the issue whilst also building their capacity to reject hate. The project will empower teachers through building their professional expertise and enabling participating schools to embed teaching and learning about extremism into their own curricula.  

Counter Extremism Project – Nobody’s Listening 

Nobody's Listening is a virtual reality (VR) project that utilises Oculus headsets to immerse participants in the harrowing stories of Yazidi genocide victims, who suffered at the hands of the violent extremist group DAESH. The VR experience combats extremism and radicalisation by shedding light on the realities of these heinous crimes and by fostering empathy for the victims of violent extremism in a way that few other projects can.  

Groundswell Project - Communities Countering Misogynistic Extremism 

This project raises awareness of the dangers of misogynistic extremism, anti-female hate narratives, Red Pill ideology and the 'Manosphere' movement through workshops in London secondary schools. A video-based classroom resource is used to show the journey of a young man who comes under the influence of the Red Pill movement, followed by a presentation encouraging open discussion about the subject matter and a group exercise exploring hate. The workshops will help to raise awareness of misogynistic hate narratives, strengthen psycho-social factors such as confidence and critical thinking, and build resilience to extremist ideas. 

London Tigers - Building young people’s resilience to radicalisation 

This project aims to support and build the resilience of young men (especially from South Asian and Muslim communities) from disadvantaged backgrounds in West London who are at risk of radicalisation or extremism. Participants will take part in a series of group workshops to address issues of racism, hate, identity, knife crime, drugs, and aims to increase confidence and support critical thinking. The project will also select high risk young men to receive weekly, intensive one-to-one support to build psychosocial resilience. Moreover, the project includes a sports programme to develop confidence, teamwork, leadership, and life-skills, and also provides work experience and volunteering opportunities to participants.  

ALLSTAR BOXERS - Future M.O.L.D.S Communities 

This project works with young people, their families and the wider community in Barking and Dagenham to increase knowledge and awareness of issues relating to intolerance and hateful views, behaviours, and attitudes. The project provides 24 weeks of boxing sessions with embedded learning at a youth-led community hub, offering a space to safely challenge and change opinions and attitudes, receive information and report concerns. Some of the participants will be trained and qualified as youth and practitioner peer leaders and qualified boxing tutors. 

All Children First CIC - Solid Resilience against Radicalisation  

This project will strengthen psychosocial factors that promote resilience to radicalisation and extremist recruitment for young people, including those in settings such as PRUs and care homes. Workshops will be delivered online and in person and the content will be focussed on extremist groups, grooming, vulnerability and peer pressure. The project also includes activity packs and games that reinforce understanding in an interactive way, such as the Radicalisation Definitions Game, which promotes awareness of terms and language relating to radicalisation and terrorism. Participants will gain an improved awareness of extremism, develop greater resilience to radicalisation, and develop enhanced critical thinking skills. 

Heartstone – Heartstone Story Circles 

Heartstone Story Circles works with children aged 9-12 to provide a practical, innovative, and positive intervention to challenge prejudice, intolerance and hate. Centred on Heartstone’s book, ‘The Heartstone Odyssey’, the project is delivered through Story Circles in schools and community settings to discuss all aspects of hate, intolerance and extremism, and provides practical methods for dealing with incidents should they occur. This project will develop participants’ ability to counter intolerance, raise awareness of extremism, and empower young people to stand up to hate.  

Eastside Community Heritage – Refugee: Could be you, could be me 

This project teaches primary school-aged children about empathy and countering prejudice through reading the book ‘Boy Everywhere,’ a fictional story about a young refugee fleeing Syria with his family, along with sound clips and accounts from people who have experienced being a refugee. Utilising a train-the-trainer model, this project aims to equip teachers with the tools and confidence to deliver a series of lessons that build empathy and raise awareness of how extremist groups use perceptions based on non-factual beliefs and generate negative emotional responses to recruit support and promote messages of prejudice and hate. 

Breakfast Clubs Against Racism - Stand Up To Hate - Teacher & Student Anti-Racism & Anti-Extremism Programme 

This project will pilot a combined teacher/student approach to tackling hate, intolerance, extremism, and racism across schools in London. It aims to improve the capabilities of teachers and raise awareness and promote pro-social behaviours in students. Training workshops will be delivered to teachers, covering topics including recognising early signs of intolerance, keeping young people safe online and preventing radicalisation. The project will deliver two-day anti-extremism/anti-hate workshops to students in each school with an expert facilitator, and with follow-up activities for continued learning. Topics covered include recognising and challenging extremism; improving awareness of radicalisation via social media; and staying safe online.