We were all over the moon recently, when we found out that our West Yorkshire Hate Crime Reporting App had won an award at The Helplines Partnership Awards! As part of The Annual Helpline Event, we were shortlisted in the Best Use of Innovative Technology category and walked away with the category’s top prize, with… Read more The Award Winning West Yorkshire Hate Crime Reporting App
We’re very pleased to announce that we’ve just found out we’ve been nominated for a Helpline Partnership Helpline Award 2016. It’s always fantastic news to be shortlisted for an award, and particularly pleasing when it’s recognition from within the industry. The awards take place on Friday November 4th at the De Vere West One Hotel,… Read more Stop Hate UK Shortlisted for Helpline Award!
I started my month’s placement with some expectation of the charity world, with experience from Oxfam and local community centres, I thought I knew what to expect. But Stop Hate UK seems a unique charity, small in size but big in support. What struck me most was the resilience of the staff, day in day… Read more My Month at Stop Hate UK, Brexit, Pride and Rejection.
New Home Office figures have just been released and show that the number of hate crimes leapt by 41% in the month after the vote to leave the European Union. The data, collated from 31 police forces showed that in the two weeks prior to the referendum, including the day of the referendum itself (23rd… Read more Hate Crime incidents soar in wake of Brexit vote
Our Chief Executive, Rose Simkins was featured on ITV Calendar News last night, discussing the rise in Post-Referendum Hate Crime and the Stop Hate UK West Yorkshire Reporting App. For more information on our Reporting App click here.
We are very pleased to announce that Stop Hate UK is now in a position to publish its Strategic Plan for the period April 2016 to March 2019. We have covered a lot of groundwork and planning in setting out our strategy, as we seek to continue our work with people who are affected by… Read more A Vision to ‘Stop Hate’ – Stop Hate UK Strategic Plan
It’s been a week since the LGBT hate crime in Orlando and to be perfectly honest I’m still not sure what to say. I am a member of the LGBTQ+ community and I was devastated when I woke up last Sunday to hear what had unfolded during the Latinx night at Pulse nightclub. I attended… Read more I Will Keep Fighting – Reflections a week on from Orlando
Canon Oakley NHCAW15 Letter of support
In our diverse capital city we ALL need to be aware of hate crime… As Chief Crown Prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service in London it was really important to me that my organisation took part in Hate Crime Awareness Week and supported Stop Hate UK. We are all fortunate to live in a hugely… Read more 20 Years of Challenging Hate #9: by Baljit Ubhey OBE, Chief Crown Prosecutor for CPS, London