West of Scotland Racial Equality Council Ltd

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The Good Community Relations Project is funded through the Scottish Governments Race, Religion and Refugee Integration Fund.  This is multi-faceted project incorporating three strands namely:

·        Tackling Religiously Motivated Crime amongst Young People:  This initiative looks to challenge religiously motivated hate crime working inter-actively with young people from all communities to address fears and phobias of different religions and beliefs to combat religiously motivated crime.  In particular this project looks to combat Islamaphobia and Anti-Semitism amongst indigenous Scottish young people and Christianaphobia amongst non-Christian young people.  Key partners in this project are Strathclyde Police and representatives from Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist and Sikh religious organisations and places of worship.  The services of this project will be operate across the 12 local authorities in the West of Scotland.

·        Provision of Advice and Information to Central and Eastern European Migrant Worker Communities:  This initiative provides migrant worker communities from Central and Eastern Europe residents in the Glasgow and Renfrewshire local authority areas with outreach advice and information on housing, employment, safety, learning, benefits and discrimination.

·        Increasing local civic participation amongst minority ethnic communities:  This initiative works to increase awareness of and participation of minority ethnic communities in Glasgow, East Renfrewshire, North Lanarkshire and South Lanarkshire in local civic structures such as community councils, trade unions and school boards.