national hate crime awareness week 2025

National Hate Crime Awareness Week is an important initiative aimed at raising awareness about hate crimes, promoting understanding and solidarity among diverse communities, and remembering those we have lost. It also aims to encourage the authorities, key partners and communities affected by hate crime to work together to tackle local hate crime across the UK.

This week serves as a platform to educate the public about the impact of hate crimes, which are motivated by prejudice against a person's race, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or other characteristics. By fostering dialogue and encouraging reporting of such incidents, National Hate Crime Awareness Week seeks to create a safer and more inclusive society for everyone, highlighting the need for collective action against intolerance and discrimination.

education is key

With current rising polarisation, misinformation, and heightened tensions around global and domestic politics, we at asphaleia want to present ways to equip children and young people to manage sensitive discussions, whether about conflicts, national policy debates, or social justice movements. We are trying to promote respectful dialogue, challenging harmful narratives, and supporting them to engage with diverse perspectives in a constructive way. 

We are putting up display information in our properties and learning centre to support young people in this area. Our staff will also be taking time in keywork and lessons to engage young people on this topic and equip them with the skills to manage interactions, information they are hearing/seeing, and staying safe.