School children reflect on Hate Crime Awareness Workshops

A follow up session has been held at Portland Basin for children to recap on their knowledge gained taking part in workshops for Hate Crime Awareness.

This bespoke event, commissioned by Tameside Council Community Safety Team, allowed educational anti-racism charities ‘Show Racism the Red Card’ and ‘Odd Arts’ to follow up with the young people and continue the discussion of their anti-racism programmes and explore these themes further.

The workshops originally toured primary schools during January to March, looking at how to recognise racism and how people can respond to racism today.  The schools have since been invited to send five to six children to the follow up session with the facilitators.

This event aimed to build on the work done and is part of the ongoing efforts from the Community Safety Team to raise awareness around hate crime.

The students consider Tameside's past, present and future - reflecting on how everyone in the borough can demonstrate their anti-racist values. The day also included a creative design session, where the children could use hat and gloves and to create anti-racism symbols.  

Executive Member for Towns, Transport and Connectivity, Cllr Stephen Homer said: “It is excellent to see a follow-on workshop provided to allow students to continue the conversation.  Building supportive, nurturing and resilient communities is a priority for us and it’s important to build values and raise awareness of issues like racism and how to challenge it, from an early age.”

For more information on the facilitators, visit https://theredcardhub.org/ and https://oddarts.co.uk/knockout-blow-celebrating-black-role-models-collective-history/.