National Hate Crime Awareness Week takes place every October, in Bradford district and Craven we’re recognising this between the 8th and 16th October 2023.  The week of action aims to encourage local authorities, key partners and communities affected by hate crime to work together to tackle local hate crime.

We all remember the awful circumstances that surrounded the death of Jo Cox’s murder in 2016, and we are reminded recently this year as two men in London are stabbed in a homophobic attack.  The message for Hate Crime Awareness Week is HOPE, by working together and playing a role we can put an end to hate – by actively working towards being strong allies, creating closer connections and understanding with people we normally wouldn’t interact with on a daily basis and developing higher levels of trust.

Become a RESPECT trailblazer – 2 sessions available online – max capacity 30 places each session

Bradford Council’s RESPECT Allyship Programme is a non-hierarchical, fully intersectional and voluntary programme, which is open to all staff to;

• Increase empathy and connection between different groups of people
• Build understanding and respect for different people
• Improve the ability to be an effective ally.

The programme was launched in May 2022 and is already demonstrating significant impact.  The programme includes an E-learning package, lived experience stories and EDI topic based sessions, which are hosted by subject matter experts from the Voluntary Sector based in Bradford district.  In this session you will;

• Hear about the RESPECT: Allyship programme and its components
• Stories and impacts of the programme so far and why we think you can be a RESPECT: Allyship trailblazer
• How this programme will be made available to every organisation, irrespective of sector or size, volunteers or students to ensure we can realise our ambition for our Place to ‘Act as One’.

The session will be interactive to understand, whether there is an appetite and demand for the programme and what support might be needed if your organisation became a RESPECT: Allyship trailblazer. Book ere; https://www.eventbrite.com/e/715920837497?aff=oddtdtcreator

This session will be available on both the 10th & 11th of October.