Hate Crime Awareness Week 2025

Spark Oldham deliver holiday provision across a number of areas in Oldham and interact with up to 200 children and young people. They have trained and employed 50 Young Leader’s aged between 16 and 19 to help deliver the holiday provision. 

Spark Oldham were successful in their application for funding to work with  Young Leader’s to train them and upskill them to enable them to become ambassadors to raise awareness around hate crime so that they can pass this message on to the children and Young People who attend their sessions. 

Ambassadors would interact with attendees of the holiday provisioto build relationships so that Spark Oldham can provide preventative work and education around what hate crime is, what it might look like, how they may be encouraged to take part in behaviour that would constitute a hate crime but also, how they could advocate or support other children and young people they thought were being impacted and how they could report it themselves.

"We feel this would be impactful as children and Young People are more likely to relate to a Young Leader aged 16-19 as opposed to an adult and will therefore be more open to the discussions and work taking place with them." 

Oldham Pride received funding to empower the LGBTQ+ community in Oldham by creating a weeks’ worth of podcasts.

 This series will: 

• Share personal stories of hate crime: Providing a platform for LGBTQ+ individuals to share their experiences and nurture empathy and understanding. 
• Educate the public about LGBTQ+ issues: Promoting inclusivity and challenging misconceptions. 
• Advocate for policy change: Contributing to efforts to improve policies and create a safer environment. 

Action 2 Inspire Oldham received funding to create a series of community workshops and events focussed on building confidence, promoting cohesion and raising awareness of hate crime reporting. 

Through interactive sessions, discussions and activities, Action 2 Inspire Oldham hope to empower local people to understand the importance of reporting a hate crime and provide them with the knowledge and tools to do so. 

The events and workshops will take place in community centres and venues across Oldham. These will take place during the evenings and weekends to ensure accessibility for a wide range of participants. 

Oldham Boxing received funding to hold a two-day session dedicated to hate crime. 

The programme will be educational, exciting and innovative, it will involve a number of approaches to enable motivation and will involve a mix of workshops and personal experiences (ex gang members). 

In order to attract participants a one hour boxing session will be included in the session. 
Workshops will include: 

• How to recognise Hate Crime 
• The importance of reporting a Hate Crime 
• Learn how, where and to whom you can report a Hate Crime 
• Learn where you can get support if you are a victim or a witness 
• How to challenge Hate Crime 
• Discuss and consider real life scenarios and what to do if you witness a Hate Crime

Oldham Boxing will also be looking to get in a number of guest speakers to talk about hate crime and the negative impact it has on people’s lives. The speakers will be from the police and people from the community who were either gang members or victims.

Creativity Box CIC were successful in their application to fund their project, which aims to have a transformative impact on local communities by fostering confidence, unity, and awareness, particularly among young girls and women. 

"By integrating art into our initiative, we create a safe space where individuals can express themselves, share their stories, and develop the skills and confidence needed to become active, supportive and informed members of their community."

Intergenerational England CIC received funding to deliver a two-day intergenerational workshop series at Fitton Library, uniting people of all ages and backgrounds to build respect, empathy, and understanding, while raising awareness of hate crime and empowering communities to report it. 

Using storytelling and creativity as tools for dialogue, participants will explore themes of inclusion, identity, and community. The project will culminate in the creation of a community art or performance piece that amplifies the collective voice against hate crime.

Men Behaving Dadly spoke to their members, and the importance of spreading awareness of hate crime, discussed about making a video that can be shared on social media and at an event at community event Greenacres Community Centre to hope that others will share after watching it. 

MBD were successful in their application for funding, and so facilitated sessions in January with the dads and children around what is hate crime, how ti report it and the barriers, to help tackle them and to create a video in a fun create way. 

With the help of a videographer/editor (and large discount) from one of our MBD dads, they hope to create a fun, bright, short, informational eye-catching video. 

"Having attended and spoken at Manchester Cathedral for the Hate crime awareness policy, watched many community groups, police officers, policy makers talk about the aims and targets, it has driven us to apply and create something together to share with others with hopes the video will be ready for Hate Crime Awareness Week."

Groundswell Project are hosting a  unique interactive 1.5 hour workshop designed for community groups to combat hateful ideologies and build resilience. 

This workshop is a multimedia workshop that combines academic knowledge, personal experience and testimonies.

Workshops are led by leading experts in the field of extremism and are sensitively adapted to demonstrate the real effects of extremist narratives and the vulnerabilities of those who become drawn into them.

DATE: Mon 10th February 2025 

TIME: 10:30am- 12pm 

LOCATION: Oasis Academy Broadoak, Norman Road, Ashton-Under-Lyne, OL6 8QG 

Places are limited