Organisations working nationally to tackle hate crime come together to help people facing abuse in London.
These organisations include Galop (combatting homophobia, biphobia and transphobia) The Community Security Trust (antisemitism); TellMama (Islamophobia); The Monitoring Group (racism) and Choice in Hackney and Westminster Mind (disability hate crime).
The new project, called CATCH (Community Alliance To Combat Hate) will begin on, April 1, run for a year, and will see advocacy and support being delivered directly to hate crime victims by the CATCH partners.
This will involve assisting them through the criminal justice system and ensuring they can access specialist services, including welfare, housing and other needs that they may have.
The work has been commissioned by the London Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime as a pilot project and will run in two boroughs of London (Westminster and Hackney).
The project brings together specialist community organisations that tackle hate crime, discrimination and abuse, and comes at a time when more people than ever before are reporting hate crime nationally, and aims to help those people by providing emotional and practical assistance.
The Chief Executive of Galop, Nik Noone said: “Galop is delighted to join with other leading hate crime experts in this unique and ambitious project to provide a high quality service for people facing hate crime. We are excited about the opportunities to share each organisation’s expertise to ensure that London remains the world leader in tackling hate crime.”
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