Deaf and Disabled People’s Organisations providing disability hate crime support services
A list of London DDPOs providing disability hate crime services.
This is a list of London DDPOs which provide disability hate crime services, such as hate crime reporting, disability hate crime awareness, victim support and advocacy, and hate crime prevention and campaigning. It also includes organisations involved in local partnerships.
This list is up to date as at June 2017. You can also search for DDPOs which provide disability hate crime support on our DDPO directory.
Deaf and Disabled People’s Organisations providing Disability Hate Crime support services or involved in local hate crime partnerships (London 2017)
Action on Disability
Third Party reporting centre. Provide advocacy services which can be accessed by victims of hate crime. Involved in local forums
Contact
Andrew Farrow Peer Support Officer Andrew.Farrow@actionondisability.org.uk
0203 080 0384 (direct line)
020 7385 2098 (central line)
Website: www.actionondisability.org.uk
Bromley Experts by Experience (X by X)
X by X are part of the Disability Hate Crime Network (DDPOs) forum and signpost people to local services related to hate crime. They have information on their website https://www.xbyxbromley.com/?s=disability+hate+crime
Contact
Tel: 020 8650 2102
Camden People First
- Third party reporting centre.
- Hold weekly user led focus groups on disability hate and mate crime – facilitates discussion, ideas and planning to make a change.
- Run user led workshop presentations on disability hate and mate crime for professionals, key agencies, schools, colleges, housing associations, police etc.
- Disability hate and mate crime advice and advocacy support
- Peer and group advocacy support
Contact
Project Coordinator for Disability Hate and Mate Crime Project
Florelle Bohi Florelle@CamdenPeopleFirst.co.uk
Tel: 020 7388 2007
Website: www.camdenpeoplefirst.org.uk
Caribbean Disabled Sports Association
- Third party reporting centre
- Involvement in hate crime partnerships
Contact
Choice in Hackney
- Informal third party reporting centre
- Advice and information for victims of disability hate crime
- Advocacy or case work support for victims of disability hate crime
- Involvement in h ate crime related partnerships and forums
Contact
CEO caroline.nelson@choiceinhackney.org
Tel: 020 7613 8130
Disability Hate Crime Advocate: jimmy.telesford.catch@choiceinhackney.org
Tel: 020 7613 8132
Website: http://www.choiceinhackney.org/
DeafPlus
Services
- Hate Crime BSL advice line
Contact
Julia Pitt
Email and face time: julia.pitt@deafplus.org
Tel number: 0121 643 4343
SKYPE: deafplus.helpline
Disability Advice Service Lambeth (DASL)
Services
- Coordinates a Reporting Centre for Disabled people at 336 Brixton Road SW9 7AA, launched in October 2016.
- Advocacy and support to individuals and Outreach (21 hours per week Hate Crime Advocacy and Outreach Worker, funded till March 2018)
- Prevention work
- Advice and information for Disabled people affected by Hate Crime
- Aiming to (a) recruit and train volunteers and (b) support Disabled people to be trainers in Hate Crime delivered to MPS and Transport for London staff.
DASL coordinate the Lambeth Disability Hate Crime Partnership (DHCP),
- Working group meets monthly (multi-agency)
- Organises events/workshops for Hate Crime Awareness Week in October each year.
- Sends representatives to other bodies, e.g. MPS IAG, Lambeth Learning Disability Assembly, Lambeth Community Safeguarding Reference Group to help develop better collaboration between services and influence policy change.
You can find out more about DHCP at:
http://www.disabilitylambeth.org.uk/dasl/hatecrime/
Contact
Tel: 020 7642 2054 or 020 7501 8976
Director: david.strong@disabilitylambeth.org.uk
Hate Crime Advocacy and Outreach Worker: cheryl.lewis@disabilitylambeth.org.uk
General enquiries: hatecrime@disabilitylambeth.org.uk
Enfield Disability Action (EDA)
Services
- Safeguarding and Engagement: provides support with all safeguarding issues and advocacy to engage with the reporting process (Advocacy is time limited as not work is not specifically funded)
- 3rd Party Reporting Centre
- Involved in Enfield Hate Crime Executive meetings and Hate Crime Forum. In partnership with other organisations around domestic violence.
EDA also provides videos on hate crime and safeguarding, the information is also in BSL available at: http://e-d-a.org.uk/our-services/safeguarding-and-engagement/
Contact
Tel: 020 8373 6222
Email: safeguarding@e-d-a.org.uk
Website: http://e-d-a.org.uk/
Greenwich Association of Disabled People (GAD)
Established in 2004, GAD’s Hate Crime Advocacy service was one of the pioneers in providing support for disabled people experiencing hate crime, domestic violence or harassment.
Services
- Provision of in depth support for individuals and representing clients at case panels (through advocacy service).
- Third party reporting centre
- Consultancy on how to identify and tackle Disability Hate Crime to local service providers such as the Metropolitan Police, Royal Borough of Greenwich and housing providers in the borough.
- Involved in local hate crime related partnerships and forums (working across all hate crime strands) and close liaison with GrIP.
Contact
Tel 020 8305 2221
Email: info@gad.org.uk
Website: http://www.gad.org.uk/Services/Hate-crime/
Harrow Association of Disabled People (HAD)
Third party reporting centre. We also participate in the Council’s corporate equality group and run hate crime events.
Contact
Nigel Long, CEO
020 8861 9923
email: general@had.org.uk
Website: www.had.org.uk
Inclusion Barnet
We have a hate crime project funded by Trust for London. We take a user led approach to addressing disability hate crime in Barnet by delivering training to different stakeholders (including Disabled people with limited verbal communication skills), improving reporting, re-establishing Barnet’s Safe Places scheme.
Contact
Website: www.inclusionbarnet.org.uk
Email: info@inclusionbarnet.org.uk
Tel: 020 3475 1314
Lewisham Disability Coalition
Services
Third party reporting site for all forms of hate crime including Disability Hate Crime and also: Hate racism, Hate Discrimination, Hate Bullying, Hate Homophobia, gender based violence, anti-refugee based prejudice. Close working relationship with the police community safety unit and Adult Safeguarding Board coordinator, and Athena (local violence against women and girls service)
Provide some support to clients who have experienced disability related harassment through general advice and advocacy services but no dedicated service.
Contact
Email: info@ldcadvice.co.uk
Tel: 020 8697 0100
Website: http://ldcadvice.co.uk/
Address: 11 Bellingham, Lewisham, SE6 3HB
Lewisham Speaking Up
Services
LSUP is an independent charity supporting adults with Learning Disabilities living in the London Borough of Lewisham. With effect from October 2017, we have a MOPAC-funded crime and hate crime advocate who will support victims to record and report (anonymously if the individual wishes) any type of incident or crime and, where appropriate, support them into and through the Criminal Justice System.
Hate crime advocacy project including:
- Third party reporting centre
- Advice and information for victims of hate crime
- Advocacy or casework support for victims of hate crime
- Hate crime training for schools and people with learning difficulties, provided by trainers with learning difficulties
- Hate Crime Training for frontline services
- Film about Learning disability Hate Crime in Lewisham
- Involved in local hate crime related partnerships and forums
Contact
Colin Finch
Email: colin.finch@lsup.org.uk, info@lsup.org.uk
Tel: 020 8692 1862
Website: http://www.lsup.org.uk/
Or write or come to LSUP, The Albany, Douglas Way, Deptford, SE8 4ED
Merton Centre of Independent Living (Merton CIL)
Run a disability Hate Crime Prevention and Support Service including:
- Monthly peer support group
- Support to report a disability hate crime
- Dedicated in-depth support for 6 people to deal with disability hate crime and its effects
- Outreach and community events to inform Disabled people of our right to be safe and what hate crime is
Have produced a detailed report on the scale of Disability Hate Crime in partnership with Stay Safe East http://mertoncil.org.uk/assets/documents/making-it-stop-tackling-hate-2
Contact
Tel: 0203 397 3119 or contact Claire Cassidy on claire@mertoncil.org.uk
Website: http://mertoncil.org.uk/services/hate-crime/
People First Self Advocacy
Services
People First have the Advocacy, Signposting and Advice telephone service. People with learning difficulties and their carers/supporters can use this service for any issue, including hate crime. We would support the person to either report a hate crime, get victim support, give them information about services or support them to get an advocate to go through the justice system.
Contact
Tel: 0207 274 5484
Email: peoplefirstltd@gmail.com
Website: http://peoplefirstltd.com/about-us/what-we-do/
REAL (Tower Hamlets)
- Third party reporting centre
- Advocacy or casework support for victims or forums
- Involvement in hate crime related partnerships or forums
Running a project to raise awareness, provide training and improve our 3rd Party reporting centre and advocacy service. We are also improving our information and advice resources available through our Local Voices project and Local Link service, which is a consortium of 7 local providers offering info, advice and advocacy provision.
Contact
Hannah.West@real.org.uk
Tel: 020 7001 2185
Website: http://www.real.org.uk/
One Place East
Services
Hate Crime and Referral Third Party reporting Centre
One Place East offers a safe, confidential environment for anybody who has experienced crime, harassment or abuse because of their: race; religion; sexuality; disability; age; gender identity or mental health condition.
Contact
Tel. 020 8925 2435
jon.abrams@oneplaceeast.org
Website: http://www.rcmh.org.uk/
Safety Net People First Self Advocacy
Learning Disability Hate Crime sub – group
Safety Net – People First (SNPF) is a Disabled People’s Organisation based in Hammersmith and Fulham, which has set up a Learning Disability (LD) Hate Crime sub – group that meets every quarter to look at local and national issues around LD Hate Crime.
Current work
- Deliver Learning Disability Awareness training to housing association staff in Hammersmith and Fulham; police (in partnership with an LGBT group); council staff and youth groups.
- Safe Places campaign which encourages shops, community spaces and businesses to advertise themselves as a safe place to go if you feel unsafe or threatened
- Set up of 3rd Party Reporting centres – There are now 5 Third Party Reporting Centres in Hammersmith and Fulham
Contact
Safety Net People First are supported by Hammersmith and Fulham Mencap
Tel: 0208 748 5168
Email safetynetpeoplefirst14@gmail.com and hana.smeeth@hfmencap.org
Sisters of Frida
Involvement in hate crime related partnerships or forums.
Contact
Website: http://www.sisofrida.org/
Stay Safe East
Stay Safe East is an advocacy and advice organisation working to tackle all forms of abuse against Deaf and disabled people, including hate crime, bullying, anti-social behaviour, sexual or domestic violence.
We support Deaf and disabled victims of any form of hate crime (disability, racist, homophobic, transphobic, islamophobic or anti-semitic hate crime) in Newham and Waltham Forest. In Waltham Forest, we also run a project to support disabled victims of targeted harassment by gangs or other groups of people who take over the disabled person’s home and exploit them (‘mate crime/cuckooing’).
We offer victims/survivors:
- An accessible, confidential Third party Reporting site
- Long-term advocacy and support re safety, re-housing, and to obtain disability services that would help make the victim safer
- If the victim chooses, help to report hate crime to the police or other agencies and to get action against the perpetrator
Information about hate crime is available at: http://www.staysafe-east.org.uk/hate-crime
Stay Safe East has a policy and change role; as an active member of the Metropolitan Police (MPS) Hate Crime Diamond Group and its disability and LGBT working groups; and by helping the MPS to develop “Disability Hate Crime Matters”. We offer training and speakers to any agency interested in tackling hate crime against disabled people.
Contact
T: 0208 519 7241
Mobile and SMS text: 07587 134 122
e-mail: advocacy@staysafe-east.org.uk
Ruth Bashall, Director: director@staysafe-east.org.uk
Website: http://www.staysafe-east.org.uk/
Transport for All
Transport for All runs an information and advice Helpline five days a week run by Disabled and older staff and volunteers, benefiting Disabled and older Londoners. We support people on all issues relating to accessing and travelling on public and private transport. Typical advice given is on journey planning, applying for blue badges, freedom passes etc and patient transport. We also act as advocates in representing clients in making complaints and take up the worst issues as campaigns. Our website also gives up to date travel information. Ten percent of our Helpline calls each year relate to reports of hate crime, of varying levels of seriousness. At present, we provide a listening ear, record people’s complaint, and signpost to either the police or local victim support organisations.
Contact
Tel: 0207 737 2339 – helpline
Text:07984 755 894