Aims/Priorities: Hate incidents and Hate Crime divides communities, creates a culture of fear, makes people’s lives a misery and are a common occurrence every day that are under reported. Continued efforts by local groups and organisations are needed to raise awareness and challenge hate crime in our communities, helping to build confidence for victims by highlighting how and where hate crime incidents can be reported. Through Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council's Community Safety Partnership, grant funding is available to support community-led projects, to deliver projects/activities within Tameside for the GM Hate Crime Awareness Week, 1st – 7th February 2027, based on one of the following priorities:-
- Improving education around hate crime
- Prevention and early intervention towards hate crime
- Bringing communities together to tackle hate crime
- Increasing communication and awareness of hate crime and its consequences
- Increasing the confidence to report a hate crime.
Organisations should engage local people beyond their existing membership networks and:-
- Hold an awareness raising activity that can encourage further conversations, share difference, past experiences, promote case study examples
- Deliver a longer-term project to help local people find out more about hate crime
- Help to change/challenge the behaviours, narratives and perceptions of Hate Crime
- Highlight the support of third-party reporting centres and encouraging more victims to report hate crimes to either the Police or third-party reporting centres across the Borough
- Use art/creative techniques to raise awareness delivering strong messages in the community that hate crime will not be tolerated
- Work in Partnership with Community Safety.
Who can apply? To be eligible organisations must be based in Tameside, and be a constituted community group, charity or CIC, as well as engaging with local people beyond their existing membership networks.
We welcome applications from groups that are new to the programme, as well as those who have applied previously. Where appropriate, we encourage partnership or joint applications. Priority will be given to innovative projects which show an awareness of more than one strand of hate crime, and those which can show a tangible product at the end that can then be re-used e.g. hate crime awareness resources, such as posters, film clips, music, artwork, presentation materials, research documents and findings, etc.
Grant Amount: Groups can apply for a grant of up to £500 to assist with the type of event / activity / project referred to above, which must be promoted and advertised as Too Great for Hate and the See it -Report it.
Application Process: Please ensure you thoroughly read the guidance notes before applying to check you meet eligibility and monitoring requirements. All boxes on the application form must be completed. Guidance notes and application form can be found below:
Too Great for Hate Guidance Notes and Application Form 2026-2027.docx (135.21 KB)- Submit your application online to sue.moorcroft@tameside.gov.uk
- The Panel will assess all eligible applications and aim to make a decision by mid November 2026.
Deadline: Monday 26th October 2026 at 4pm.
Contact Information: If you have any queries about the application form, or would like an informal chat/visit to discuss ideas, please contact Sue Moorcroft on 07976972206 or Email: sue.moorcroft@tameside.gov.uk