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This fund is aimed at the VCF sector and schools providing activity to:
General

Bring communities together from different backgrounds, faiths and cultures around a shared objective e.g. volunteering, befriending/mentoring
Improve capability of communities to tackle extremist narratives and ideologies
Build, improve and strengthen local partnerships which support community resilience
Improve skills in diffusing tensions, strengthen community connections, promote unity and shared values
Provide activities that bring different parts of the community together to share and interact e.g. workshops, events where individuals can hear directly from people who are ‘different’ from them
Deliver an inter-community project aimed at improving community connections e.g. activities that support mental health through gardening, art, singing or sports projects
Provide ESOL lessons or sessions for improving English language skills
Help to improve the local environment e.g. address graffiti, etc, by bringing people together to improve their local communities and/or environments.
Increase personal confidence in interacting with others and build trust.
Provide capacity/capability training for community organisations to support diffusing community tensions

Schools/Young People

Connect students from different backgrounds in safe spaces
Provide bespoke workshops for young people to build resilience to extremist ideologies
Provide social media focused ‘critical thinking’ lessons in school to equip young people to navigate challenges around different points of view
Facilitate dialogue on emotive subjects e.g. support for schools around how to have challenging conversations and listen to different points of view
Deliver events, workshops or campaign activities to educate on what constitutes a hate crime
Provide activities aimed at young people to address tension, unrest, etc linked to intolerance
Provide guidance/training for teachers on how to de-escalate tensions and respond to concerns
Provide training for teachers and other school staff on building confidence and skills to address extremist related topics

Aims
Projects should focus on one of the priority wards (applications which do not cover one of these areas will not be considered):

And strongly support specific local needs in the following key areas:

Improve cohesion and reduce divisions
Improve capability to tackle extremist narratives and ideologies
Improve local partnership approaches to supporting community resilience by funding projects to strengthen social capital
Improve the capability of communities to respond to tensions through initiatives that strengthen community connections, promote unity and shared values

More Information
For further information please click the button below to download a copy of application guidelines.