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Past Projects
All Wales Hate Crime Research Project
Date: Ended October 2013
Location: Wales-wide
Project Outline
The aims of the Project were:
The primary aim of the research was to generate robust data on both the nature of hate crime and hate-related incidents in Wales and the impact of this victimisation on individuals, their families and local communities. The study focuses on the 5 protected characteristics for hate crime recognised by the Home Office:
- Disability;
- Race & Ethnicity;
- Religion & Belief;
- Sexual Orientation, and
- Transgender Status/ Gender Identity.
However, the Project also recognises the existence of hate crime victimisation on the basis of age and gender and both of these identity characteristics are included and examined in the study1. The wide-ranging scope of the research ensures it has generated the most comprehensive dataset on hate crime victimisation in the UK at the date of publication.
Equality and Human Rights in the Community Project
Date: Ended June 2013
Location: Wales-wide
Project Outline
The aims of the Project were:
Community Resilience Project
Date: Ended November 2010
Location: Cardiff
Project Outline
The aims of the Project were to:
- Raise the profile of the Muslim community in Cardiff.
- Promote community cohesion and rejection of extremism.
- Increase youth participation in social and civic life by offering young people constructive leisure and community based activities as well as advice and support in preventing general exclusion.
- Enhance young people’s prospects in education and employment thereby reducing any vulnerability they may have in being targeted by extremists.
- Create awareness of all faiths and promote interfaith/cultural dialogue.
- Ensure girls and young women actively participate in preventing violent extremism.
Key activities were:
- Developing Outreach Youth Projects linked to local mosques to encourage greater engagement with local young people to establish the Young Muslim People’s Network. This Network had links to the IMAN and promoted community cohesion and rejection of extremism.
- Working in partnerships with Forums of Faith.
- Developing a Muslim Sisters’ Network (MSN), linked to their local mosque, to actively participate in preventing violent extremism.
Eastern European Roma Support Project
Date: Ended December 2011
Location: Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan
Project Outline
The aims of the Project were to:
- Support Eastern European Roma families with language assistance and advice on local services including housing, health and education.
Key activities were:
- Establishing drop-in advice sessions for Roma communities.
- Disseminating information about the available support amongst the Roma communities and local service providers
- Assisting with accessing services such as GP surgeries, housing, English language classes, employment, welfare support and others.
- Providing assistance with completing forms and documents.
- Organising awareness raising sessions / producing advice information.
Economic Migrants and Refugee Project
Date: Ended December 2008
Location: Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan
Project Outline
The aims of the Project were to:
- Work directly with individuals who were economic migrants or refugees and also with employers.
- Help refugees and economic migrants fulfil their potential and use their wealth of skills to contribute to the economy and contribute to society.
Key activities were:
- Twice monthly Banking Clinic
- Employment Drop-in Centre
- Migrant and Refugees Information Day
- Call Centre Training Day
- Trips to places of interest in Wales to help raise awareness of Welsh culture and society.
- A seminar in partnership with WLGA on ‘Economic Migrants - Responding to Local Needs’.
Memorable Moments In our Lives School Art Project
Date: Ended 2010
Location: Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan
Project Outline
The aims of the Project were to:
- To develop and enhance the artistic skills of children from 10 primary schools in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan.
- To promote community cohesion through the learning and sharing of information about diverse traditions and cultures.
Key activities were:
- Teach children, from years 5 and 6, how to use a variety of art forms.
- Creating works of art including masks, 5ft puppets and banners.
- Researching the project theme and discussing these various practices of birth, marriage and death with each other, their families and communities.
Tactile Sculpture Project and Exhibitions
Date: Ended October / November 2007
Location: Barry Library
Project Outline
The aims of the Project were to:
- In October/November 2007 REF exhibited its Tactile Sculptures at Barry Library, in the Vale of Glamorgan as part of the Black History Month celebrations. This was the third time that these amazing sculptures had been shown. In February 2007 they were displayed at the Senedd, the home of the National Assembly for Wales in Cardiff Bay and in December 2006 they were exhibited at The Old Library Cardiff.
Featuring a series of dramatic papier-mache sculptures on the theme of “Wales’ Impact on the World and the World’s Influence on Wales”, the exhibitions were the highpoint of an exciting arts project between 10 primary schools in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan and REF. The children who took part worked with our Arts Project Co-ordinator, Katrina Willis, to create models that expressed their interpretation of this theme and they drew inspiration from technology, science, the arts, tourism and cuisine. The sculptures ranged from an 8 foot tall Samurai Warrior to a model of the Millennium Stadium.
Warsaw Region Project
Date: Ended December 2011
Location: Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan
Project Outline
The project aimed to bridge the education and social gap for young people and their parents from newly arriving communities.
The aims of the Project were to:
- To provide opportunities for newly arriving communities to gain full access to and to become socially included within the context of different and new education systems.
- To facilitate opportunities for social cohesion, intercultural dialogue immersion and full integration and inclusion within the school system, local communities and society in general.
- To prepare current and future teaching and non-teaching staff to meet the needs of migrant communities and their institutions and in the wider community.
- To improve teachers understanding and training which enables them to access the skills necessary to write and deliver effective lesson plans taking into account new and recently arrived communities.
- To develop documents, adaptable for individual schools, which will serve as a flexible toolkit to assist schools to address the identified issues.
- To support newly qualified teachers and student teachers in preparing them for the future employment in the evolving educational environment.
Key activities were:
- Establishing a parent support group.
- Establishing an information and support system for newly arrived parents.
- Developing and disseminating a Welcome Pack for new arrivals in a number of community languages.
- Carrying out regular school audits.
- Developing and delivering student teacher training.
- Writing and delivering awareness workshops for schools.
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