Educational and social inclusion
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Bury, Greater Manchester, UK
Operating across the North West and Yorkshire
Standing Together
and Hate Crime Awareness project
Standing Together/
Hate Crime Awareness Project 2025
Sharing learning and creative skills
across the community
As part of our continuing work on tackling Hate Crime, Fair Futures has been running a conversation group once every week since March 2025. We have welcomed recent migrants from Hong Kong and refugees from Ukraine to our discussions. Initially, we talked about places in Bury that would be useful for the group, such as the library, job centre and leisure centre. We compared experiences of work and had fun finding out which jobs pay the highest salaries in the UK. Group members talked about living in multi-generational homes and the ways in which their children were building their careers in the Greater Manchester. Members of the group showed great sensitivity towards others who were not able to be with their family or whose homes had been destroyed by war.
The young people's ESOL discussion group began in September 2025. This was aimed at recent migrants to the UK aged between 15 and 18. The group included some existing service users and several new participants. We followed a similar syllabus to the adult group and began the sessions by talking about Bury and places in the town. We also looked at maps, and the group enjoyed studying both a plan of Bury town centre and a large Ordnance Survey map of Greater Manchester. We then moved even further out and talked about the United Kingdom. The group were keen to learn about the different regions and nations of the UK. Finally, we learnt about Hate Crime and the five different monitored strands. The group discussed their own experiences and learned some new information. The young people are now aware that they can come to Fair Futures to make a report if they are a victim of Hate Crime.
From the beginning of September 2025, there has been a weekly craft group at Fair Futures. So far, attendees have learnt a variety of stitching techniques and made both decorative and useful pieces. Most recently, one of the group volunteered to teach us the art of decoupage. This was done very professionally and in two languages! Other activities in the pipeline are crochet, making books and decorative felt craft. In addition to supporting attendees’ use of English, engaging in craft activities fosters social connections and the repetitive motions involved in some crafts can help to calm the mind and reduce anxiety.
We are grateful to Bury’s Standing Together funding that has made these groups possible.
Standing Together/
Hate Crime Awareness Project 2024
A project to create multilingual, easily-understood training, information and advice on recognising, reporting and reducing Hate Crime. During Hate Crime Awareness week, we ran an anti-hate artwork competition, open to Bury schools and colleges, to increase understanding of hate crime.
Contact Janet Holden j.holden@fairfuturescic.org
for details of this project.
What is hate crime?
The Metropolitan Borough of Bury consists of six towns: Bury, Prestwich, Radcliffe, Ramsbottom, Tottington and Whitefield.
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Approximately 195 000 people live in the Borough of Bury. We welcome people from around the world who make their home here. We encourage families to maintain the traditions and beliefs that are important to them. We join together to celebrate many different festivals and events.
However, not everyone is happy to welcome people from other countries and cultures to Bury. If what they say or do to you is against the law, this can be a hate crime.
Watch this video to find out what hate crime is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdUUD7jcMVs-
If someone attacks you, your family, your property or possessions because of your race or religion or because you are a refugee or asylum-seeker, this is against the law. It is a hate crime.
If someone attacks you because they think you are a particular race or religion or they think you are a refugee or asylum-seeker, this is a hate crime too.
It is also a hate crime if they attack you because you are or they think you are transgender, disabled or not heterosexual.
Click on our information sheet to find out more about hate crime and how to report it.
English
Ukrainian
Arabic
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Farsi
French
Urdu
You can use a self-reporting form to tell the police or a reporting centre about a hate crime or hate incident.
Arabic
English
Farsi
French
Mandarin
Pashto
You can read more about Hate Crime reporting on our Staying Safe page
You can listen to the Standing Together information in various languages using the sound files below
This page is funded by the Standing Together/
Hate Crime Awareness Community Grant
Hate crime French download
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