Community groups and faith leaders play a crucial role in ensuring safety in local areas. Our workshops are designed to help local communities spot far-right activity in their local area, recognise signs of radicalisation and give advice on how to intervene safely.
If you are interested in any of our training workshops please email us at - info@smallsteps.ltd
Tailored to the needs of community groups and faith leaders, our far-right awareness course provides detailed information about the far right’s activities in the UK, the history of the movement, as well as the severity of the current threat.
Drawing on our own lived experience of far-right groups’ recruitment methods, we highlight how the far right operates in local communities and what its recruitment methods are. The course is aimed at empowering influential local people so they can counteract the impact of the far-right in their communities, including how to have difficult conversations with people who are supportive of a far-right narrative.
Upskilling all attendees to be able to have conversations with people supportive of a far-right narrative, we show people how to open up conversations, create a safe space and challenge peoples support for the far-right, highlighting how ALL extremism is wrong and involvement hurts everyone – those involved, their families and the communities people live in.
Delivered by people who have either been involved in far-right extremism themselves, parents who have had a child involved or a mentor who supports people to leave extremism, we offer a unique insight into this world, from first-hand experience.
Also included as part of this training is access to our unique online Support Hub which offers continued information and is only available to training attendees. This includes access to shortened PDF presentations, videos, podcasts, blog articles and more so people can have conversations within people’s communities to reduce the appeal of the extremist’s narrative and in turn, weaken its appeal.
Seeking to develop a network of people in a local area, the aim of this training is to support people who wish to be able to talk to local people who may have concerns that might lead them to support the far-right, but are not yet engaged.
Educating people so they not only understand why people look to far-right extremism for answers, we want people to become a listening ear in the community, so people don’t have to turn to extremists to be listened to.
Finding out what people’s concerns are, community champions listen to people’s worries and then can signpost people to local partners and other support services, so individuals don’t succumb to extremist messaging and put themselves in danger.
Creating community resilience to extremism, this programme is about improving the local community and assisting people who may feel lonely or isolated to look to the community for support, not extremists who may use them.
More than just a listening ear, Community Champions are a vital link to opening the door for people in need to get the support they need to reduce the appeal of extremism.
Upskilling all attendees to be able to have difficult conversations with people supportive of a far-right narrative, we show people how to open up conversations, create a safe space and challenge peoples support for the far-right, highlighting how ALL extremism is wrong and involvement hurts those involved, their families and the communities people live in.
Delivered by people who have either been involved in far-right extremism themselves, parents who have had a child involved or a mentor who supports people to leave extremism, we offer a unique insight into this world, from first-hand experience.
Also included as part of this training is access to our unique online Support Hub which offers continued information and is only available to training attendees. This includes access to shortened PDF presentations, videos, podcasts, blog articles and more so people can have conversations within people’s communities to reduce the appeal of the extremist’s narrative and in turn, weaken its appeal.
Nigel’s is the best training I have attended by a mile. I can’t stress enough how valuable the work Small Steps is doing to reduce hate and prevent radicalisation in our communities. There is something everyone in a community can do and Nigel opens your eyes to the possibilities. He a very brave person and I have learned things from Nigel and Small Steps that I will continue to drive forward within my own life and work.
Victoria Sylvester
Managing director
Acacia Training
The knowledge of Small Steps, the practical and localised examples that they used and the interactivity of the course, all enabled practitioners to ask the questions they normally might not feel comfortable to ask. We were able to hold difficult conversations about local issues and concerns, and received 100% positive feedback from participants.
Samiya Butt
Prevent & Cohesion Coordinator
Manchester City Council
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