{"id":74229,"date":"2016-09-16T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T09:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=4befd73da1dc2b7beaf65c7f0b02b17d"},"modified":"2016-09-16T09:03:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T09:03:00","slug":"news-story-home-office-announces-support-for-groups-tackling-extremism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=74229","title":{"rendered":"News story: Home Office announces support for groups tackling extremism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Home Office today launched a programme of support for frontline organisations working to challenge extremism in their communities.<\/p>\n<p>Organisations with a track record of promoting community cohesion and tackling extremism are being encouraged to bid for support as part of the first wave of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/building-a-stronger-britain-together\">Building a Stronger Britain Together programme<\/a>. This 4-year initiative delivers a key strand of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/counter-extremism-strategy\">the government\u2019s counter-extremism strategy<\/a> published last year and aims to promote and strengthen positive mainstream voices across Britain.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Newton, Minister for Vulnerability, Safeguarding and Countering Extremism, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We are Great Britain because we are a proud, diverse society united by values such as democracy, free speech, mutual respect and opportunity for all.<\/p>\n<p>Extremists threaten these values, promoting hatred and intolerance and causing harm to communities and individuals. This includes far right groups who encourage anti-Muslim hatred and anti-semitism. It also includes those who deny women the same rights as men to education, work or justice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Across the country organisations and individuals are standing up to extremism and the harm it causes. As we work to build a country that works for everyone, we are determined to support them and, by empowering mainstream voices, drown out those who seek to divide us.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Groups can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/building-a-stronger-britain-together\">apply online<\/a> for in-kind support up to a value of \u00a375,000, or grant funding up to \u00a350,000. In-kind support might include social media training, help setting up a website or advice on media activity. Grant funding will be given for clearly defined proposals, for example a project to help 15 to 18 year olds find full-time employment after leaving school in an area where far right groups are attempting to recruit vulnerable young adults.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a new call for bids for each new financial year to make sure the funding has impact across all 4 years, and to make sure that support is always given to groups doing the most relevant and innovative work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/building-a-stronger-britain-together\">Further information about applying for support<\/a> is available.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Home Office today launched a programme of support for frontline organisations working to challenge extremism in their communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}