{"id":78358,"date":"2017-01-26T10:32:30","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T10:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=03d85b76acd012098624b50960edc34a"},"modified":"2017-01-26T10:32:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T10:32:30","slug":"press-release-new-hate-crime-package-to-target-groups-at-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=78358","title":{"rendered":"Press release: New hate crime package to target groups at need"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day 2017, Communities Secretary Sajid Javid has today (26 January 2017) announced \u00a3375,000 of new funding to further encourage the reporting and prevention of hate crime.<\/p>\n

The new package will be targeted at a range of existing organisations, working with faith and minority communities that have historically faced challenges in reporting hate crime. These include race and faith groups and those working at challenging the prejudice towards people from alternative subcultures.<\/p>\n

The extra support will build upon the wide reaching work the government is already doing to reduce hate crime, increase reporting and improve support for victims. It builds on the \u00a31 million of support directed at young people announced as part of the government\u2019s Hate Crime Action Plan<\/a> last summer.<\/p>\n

Mr Javid will announce the new funding in a speech at The Anne Frank Trust Annual Lunch to mark Holocaust Memorial Day in London today, before hosting the UK Commemorative Ceremony for Holocaust Memorial Day.<\/p>\n

Communities Secretary Sajid Javid said:<\/p>\n

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Holocaust Memorial Day is a stark and important reminder of what can happen when hate and intolerance spirals out of control and specific groups are targeted simply because they are different.<\/p>\n

These funds build upon what government is already doing through the Hate Crime Action Plan<\/a> to challenge the misperceptions that lead to hate crime and support victims from marginalised communities to stand up and report incidents.<\/p>\n

Let me be clear. Hate crime has no place whatsoever in British society. We will not stand for it. All communities must be able to live their lives free from fear of verbal or physical attack.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Minister for Faith and Integration Lord Bourne said:<\/p>\n

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This new funding will support communities most at risk that may find reporting and preventing hate crime challenging for a variety of cultural and historical reasons.<\/p>\n

Every community in Britain should feel confident in standing up to the perpetrators of hate crime and make it clear that hate and intolerance is entirely unacceptable.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Groups receiving funding<\/h3>\n

The package will provide funding to the following organisations:<\/p>\n