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19/10/2015
£5m Secured For Counter Terrorism Initiatives
A total of £5 million has been secured for local initiatives, campaigns and charities to help counter extremist ideologies, the Prime Minister has announced.
The money will be used to build a national network of grassroots organisations to challenge all forms of extremist ideology, the Prime Minister announced on the eve of the publication of the government's new Counter-Extremism Strategy.
At the heart of the Strategy is a new partnership approach to strengthen community resilience and promote a coalition to speak out, challenge and ultimately defeat extremism. The new funding, initially for this financial year, will be dedicated to providing direct and in-kind practical support to groups to expand the reach and scale of their work to confront extremism, and develop credible alternative narratives to the dangerous views propagated by extremists.
This could include social media training, technical assistance to enable a small charity to set up a website, and targeting funding for specific projects.
Prime Minister David Cameron said: "I said last week that there is one more big social reform in our mission to rebuild Britain as an even greater country.
"We need to systematically confront and challenge extremism and the ideologies that underpin it, exposing the lies and the destructive consequences it leaves in its wake.
"We have to stop it at the start – stop this seed of hatred even being planted in people's minds and cut off the oxygen it needs to grow.
"Tomorrow I will be launching the Counter-Extremism Strategy. It sets out our new approach to tackle this poison: to vigorously counter the ideology that underpins it; to take on the violent and non-violent parts of the creed; actively supporting the mainstream voices to rise above those of the extremists; and tackle the segregation and feelings of alienation that can help provide fertile ground for extremist messages to take root.
"At the core is building a national coalition of all those individuals and groups who are united in their determination to defeat extremism and build a more cohesive society.
"We will do everything we can to support them – through my new Community Engagement Forum and with practical support and funding to tackle these deep-rooted issues. The scale of the task is immense and that is why we need everyone to play their part."
(MH/JP)
The money will be used to build a national network of grassroots organisations to challenge all forms of extremist ideology, the Prime Minister announced on the eve of the publication of the government's new Counter-Extremism Strategy.
At the heart of the Strategy is a new partnership approach to strengthen community resilience and promote a coalition to speak out, challenge and ultimately defeat extremism. The new funding, initially for this financial year, will be dedicated to providing direct and in-kind practical support to groups to expand the reach and scale of their work to confront extremism, and develop credible alternative narratives to the dangerous views propagated by extremists.
This could include social media training, technical assistance to enable a small charity to set up a website, and targeting funding for specific projects.
Prime Minister David Cameron said: "I said last week that there is one more big social reform in our mission to rebuild Britain as an even greater country.
"We need to systematically confront and challenge extremism and the ideologies that underpin it, exposing the lies and the destructive consequences it leaves in its wake.
"We have to stop it at the start – stop this seed of hatred even being planted in people's minds and cut off the oxygen it needs to grow.
"Tomorrow I will be launching the Counter-Extremism Strategy. It sets out our new approach to tackle this poison: to vigorously counter the ideology that underpins it; to take on the violent and non-violent parts of the creed; actively supporting the mainstream voices to rise above those of the extremists; and tackle the segregation and feelings of alienation that can help provide fertile ground for extremist messages to take root.
"At the core is building a national coalition of all those individuals and groups who are united in their determination to defeat extremism and build a more cohesive society.
"We will do everything we can to support them – through my new Community Engagement Forum and with practical support and funding to tackle these deep-rooted issues. The scale of the task is immense and that is why we need everyone to play their part."
(MH/JP)
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