Upcoming HEAR events

Workshop – 10th of June 12:00 – 13:30 – NetEquality Wellbeing – Mapping, Connecting & Sharing

We are also offering grants to pay for peoples’ data etc. as we want to include people who are ‘digitally excluded’. Peer activists, user-led Mental Health projects and Experts by Experience can apply to have expenses reimbursed via HEAR digital exclusion work. Get in touch with mhairi@hearequality.org.uk

for more info.

For any other event info contact Rebecca – networks@hearequality.org.uk

Invitation: Human Rights and Covid 19 Free Online Workshop with British Institute of Human Rights 10th June

HEAR’s Pan-Equality Hate Crime Network
Charities Challenging Hate Crime

Our last network meeting was for an extraordinary meeting in January. Members agreed to work together on a “User-Led Strategy for all survivors of hate crime and targeted abuse in London”, and to launch it and some joint manifesto asks at a Hustings Against Hate for 2020’s Mayoral elections.

Well much has changed since then, including the elections being postponed.

Hate crime and domestic abuse, however, seem to have increased and shifted since the global pandemic and the resultant ‘lockdown’.

Many of our members have been extremely busy responding to emergency needs, applying their Lived Experience expertise to supporting new communities of survivors, as well as delivering holisitc services like adovcacy, housing support, food bank access, and collecting data and case study examples to advise and support our statutory colleagues at this world altering time.

After the initial crisis and flurry of emergency responses members are now asking we meet, virtually, to #EndHateTogether

We are proposing meeting(s) late in June to celebrate Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month.

We will have seminars and presentations on challenging race and ‘migrant’ hate.

We will discuss reframing messages on ‘vulnerability’, protecting older and disabled people from hate speech and abuse during ‘cocooning’.

Date TBC, please email to express your interest, telling us how long is too long for a viritual meeting for you! mhairi@HEARequality.org.uk

Members events:

Click here to sign up for the Hate Crime Round Table >

Poverty Alliance Webinar -Tackling Unemployment After Covid, 11th June

Previous partners include:
London Plus, Race on the Agenda, British Institute of Human Rights, Just Space, Just Fair, Equally Ours, Inclusion London, Faiths Forum for London, Age UK London, REAP, Greater London Volunteering, Greenwich CVS, Haringey Association of Voluntary and Community Organisations, Lewisham Volunteer Centre, National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO), Newham Forum for Health and Wellbeing, Redbridge CVS, Richmond CVS, ASCENT Partnership, London Borough of Haringey, Barnet Healthwatch, Lewisham CVS, Waltham Forest Healthwatch, GLA

Some Recent and Past HEAR Events:

• Every Quarter: Pan London Pan Equality Hate Crime Network Charities Challenging Hate Crime

•  Intersectionality and Immigration
• Diversity in Volunteering

• Working Together for Equality in London: Collaboration, Partnership and Solidarity

• Networks and Mapping for Campaigning and Solidarity

  • • Working for Equality with the GLA and Statutory Sector Colleagues-London’s Living Room, City Hall

• Deaf and Disabled Refugees, Strategic Expert Group

• #OurWayAhead London Plan Consultation

• Refugees: Home, Homelessness, Destitution and Survival

  • #OurWayAhead Better Health for All Londoners

• Working Together for Health Equality in London Mayoral Strategy consultation event with the GLA

• Haringey Adult Learning and Skills VCS Networking Meeting

• Hate Crime Awareness Week Lunch and Learn

• Working Together for an Inclusive London Mayoral Strategy Consultation event with the GLA

• #OurWayAhead-Community Action Partnership event

• No Missing Pieces-the Way Ahead for Everyone

• Supporting the Supporters-support for organisations supporting refugees

• Still Unheard Out There-LGBTQI Lives through the Prism of Diversity -Pride Fringe event

• Rainbow London: Illuminating, Celebrating and Supporting Diverse LGBT Lives in London

• Faith and Older Age-in partnership with Age UK London and Faiths Forum for London

• Economic and Social Rights: A Human Rights Approach to Social Justice Training (in partnership with Just Fair)

• Refugees: Home, Homelessness and Survival (in partnership with REAP)

• Trans Awareness Training

• Disabled and in Exile: Being Excluded Twice

• The Gender Recognition Act

• Supporting LGBT Refugees and Asylum Seekers

• LGBT People of Faith

• Disabled Refugees: Rights to Health, Mental Health and Social Care Support

• ‘Hardly Hard To Reach’ programme of peer learning, consultation and campaign events for BAMER Mental Health Equality in West London

HEAR aims, through its funded projects, and in partnership with its members, to provide a wide range of workshops, peer learning and networking and other events of benefit to London voluntary and community organisations, and those with whom they work. HEAR training, workshops and events address many different topics related to equality, human rights, diversity and inclusion.
The Policy and Campaigns project, funded by Trust for London, organises networking events to support organisations with their policy and campaigns work. Our work funded by City Bridge Trust organises a variety of events  and activities to build and strengthen bridges  between different parts o f London, across different equality groups and specialisms, and to promote voice and influence. In addition HEAR Works with its members and others to put on other events on specific equality or human rights themes.