National Hate Crime Awareness Week '23 - Community Champions training event

Who is delivering the training?

Small Steps is an organisation set up in 2015 with the simple aim of reducing extremism through anti-extremism training.

Set up by Nigel Bromage, a former Extreme Right-Wing activist, Small Steps uses people's lived experiences to lift the lid on how extremists operate and show how extremism can be challenged & reduced.

What is the aim of the training?

This training is designed to establish a network of individuals in Haringey who can assist people who may have views that could potentially lead to support extremism and hate crime if left unaddressed. Educating people so they not only understand why people look to far right extremism for answers, but attendees will become a listening ear, so people don’t have to turn to extremists to be listened to and can be assisted via a local source to be signposted to trusted support.

What is contained in the training?

• Develop a network of people in a local area, whom people can talk to about concerns they have which might lead them to support right-wing extremism.
• Information on how to tackle this at a local level; people will live/work locally.
• Attendees will acquire skills to have low level, informal conversations, with people from the community, so they can speak freely, and the champion can then offer alternative narratives where suitable.
• The champions will be able to offer educational links (Via links from the online Support Hub) and help the person they are speaking to learn that ALL extremism is wrong and never the answer. Instead, they will be engaged and can be signposted to other services, either local, national, or online.

The event will also be an opportunity to meet the Haringey Multi Faith Forum and learn about the work they are doing in the borough with connecting faith and non faith groups.

After the training session, participants will have the chance to network and engage in a roundtable workshop, where they can share their newly acquired skills and explore practical ways to apply them.

Light refreshments will be served.

Tickets are on a first come first served basis. If you missed ticket sales, please contact heather.hutchings@haringey.gov.uk.