Protection Approaches
@ibvprev.bsky.social
UK charity working to tackle identity-based violence, from hate crime to violent extremism and mass atrocities, in the UK and around the world. Found out more here: https://protectionapproaches.org/
Would your frontline team know how to support someone affected by a hate crime? As part of the CATCH partnership, Protection Approaches offers free, interactive online or in person hate crime awareness training for staff & volunteers. 📩 Book a session: communities@protectionapproaches.org
🚇 Would you know what to do if you saw someone being harassed on the bus or Tube? Our free online Active Bystander Training with TfL gives you practical tools to step in safely. 📅 13 Nov · 25 Nov · 12 Dec Places are limited – book now 👇 #ActiveBystander #London
We’re proud to have received the @Mayor of London’s Shared Endeavour Fund Long-Term Organisational Impact 2026 award 🏆 Until March 2027, we’re offering free Active Bystander Training to community groups, charities, workplaces and universities across London. Find out in comment on how to book:
We’re recruiting two new trustees to join our Board 📣 Identity-based violence is growing, but so is the recognition that preventing it is possible. Help us meet this moment. 📅 Apply by 23.59, 15 November 2026 Download the recruitment pack: protectionapproaches.org/current-vaca...
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@bsky.app ⚖️ Atrocities rarely come without warning, so why is the UK so often too late to act? The Standing Group on Atrocity Crimes’ new report sets out a roadmap. Congratulations to chair Baroness Helena Kennedy, and PA was glad to give evidence. atrocitystandinggroup.org/report
Last chance, Wirral! ⏳ Do you live, work, study or volunteer in Wirral? We're listening to what brings communities together, and what could help. Share your views in our anonymous survey by 11.59pm Sunday 11 October: www.smartsurvey.co.uk/t/Wirral-Ins... #SocialCohesion
Great to see our work with the University of Leicester, Manifesto for Change, on the table at their event with Kick It Out. Kick It Out is also our great partner in delivering tailored active bystander training, so it was especially meaningful to see this collaboration highlighted.
Tomorrow at #Lab26: Dr Kate Ferguson joins the Independent Commission on UK-EU Relations to discuss how Labour can rebuild UK leadership in international development. With Michael Jacobs, Baroness Armstrong & Ade Adeyemi MBE. 📅 29 Sept, 12–1pm, Room 4A, Convention Centre Join us if you're around!
Joining #LabourConference? Our Co-Executive Director Kate Ferguson will join UCL Policy Lab and the Gates Foundation to discuss: can progressives reshape the case for cooperation? Protecting people abroad and at home is one agenda. Sun 27 Sept 4pm at Derwent Pod. See comment for registration link.
Last week, we launched our new strategy and announced Nick Martlew as our Chair 🎉 If you haven't already, please read our new Strategic Plan 👉 protectionapproaches.org/strategy-202...
💬 People affected by hate crime must be central to tackling it. Last week our Stronger Communities team joined Brent Council's Disabled People's Empowerment Month, sharing our free hate crime awareness and active bystander training across Brent. Free sessions this September and October 👇
Today we launch our Strategic Plan 2026–2029: Protecting People and Democracy in an Age of Division. We’re also proud to introduce strategy and collaboration specialist Nick Martlew as our new Chair of Trustees. Identity-based violence is not inevitable. Read our new plan (link in comment)
Join our free online hate crime awareness training for frontline staff and volunteers across London. Learn how to recognise hate crime, support those affected, and signpost to reporting and support services. 📅 20 Aug | 17 Sep (More dates coming soon!) 🎟️ Register link via Eventbrite in comment
PA's Co-Executive Director, Kate Ferguson, joined ODI Global Think Change Podcast to discuss accountability in foreign policy and what a more accountable approach to decision-making could look like. 🎧 Listen to the full episode: Link in comment
Catch up on our recent appearance on The Bunker, “Musk will tear us apart? – The national security emergency we need to tackle”, where we discuss how malign actors are attacking British society, and what we can do about it. Listen now: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...
Today, a Tibetan man has died after an apparent act of self-immolation outside the UN headquarters in New York, reportedly in protest against the Chinese Communist Party’s “Ethnic Unity and Progress Law.” Read Benedict Rogers’ article in The Telegraph: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06...
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Join our #ActiveBystanderTraining and learn how to safely and confidently respond to situations such as hate crime, harassment, prejudice, and anti-social behaviour, with a focus on supporting those affected. Register now! Spaces are free: bit.ly/4w3C69k
We repeatedly warned: El Fasher’s fall to the RSF would bring catastrophe, offering the UK government options to avert mass atrocities. Ultimately our warnings failed, tens of thousands were killed. Dr Kate Ferguson from PA asked 3 critical questions in the #InternationalDevelopmentCommittee:
One thing is clear: threats to our democratic assets cannot be met with tanks on the lawn and drones in the skies alone. This was at the heart of the evidence given by PA's Co-Executive Director, Dr Kate Ferguson, to the #ForeignAffairsCommittee inquiry into cuts to the #IntegratedSecurityFund.
PA's Co-Executive Director, Dr Ferguson, gave evidence to #ForeignAffairsCommittee's inquiry into cuts to the Integrated Security Fund. She argued that conventional defence aren't enough to meet the changing nature of anti-democratic statecraft. Cohesion must be a core part of national security.
Today is International Bystander Awareness Day! We're proud to partner with The FA to roll out football-specific Active Bystander training through the FLAG IT initiative, helping people across the game recognise harm and intervene safely. Read more: protectionapproaches.org/news/f/flag-...
Flag It - Active Bystander Training in partnership with the FA
On a recent episode of the Safeguarding Matters podcast from Ann Craft Trust, Protection Approaches’ Co-Executive Director Andy Fearn spoke about a major national partnership with The Football Associa...
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🚨Launch: London Resilience Equalities Partnership🚨 We’re excited to be launching the London Resilience Equalities Partnership to support inclusive emergency preparedness & response efforts🗣️🤝 Recruitment is now open for members & two co-chair roles. Apply & learn more below ⬇️ tinyurl.com/bdhpswbd
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Equalities at the heart of London's emergency planning and response
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🚨NEW: last week we launched our Manifesto for Change with our wonderful colleagues at University of Leicester's Centre for Hate Studies at Labour Party Conference 🧵
📢 Continuing our focus on transnational repression (TNR), FPC Research Fellow Dr Saipira Furstenberg examines the challenges democracies face in confronting authoritarian TNR. She explores policy gaps, risks to human rights, and why coordinated, rights-based strategies are essential. ⬇️
As we mark one year since the tragic murder of Alice, Elsie, and Bebe at a children’s dance class in Southport, our thoughts are with their families as they continue to grieve. We reflect on how what followed became, for many, a moment of national reckoning 💭
One year on - reflecting on the UK's racist riots
As we mark one year since the tragic murder of Alice, Elsie, and Bebe at a children’s dance class in Southport, our thoughts are with their families as they continue to grieve.
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💡 Excellent piece by our Trustee Sherine El Taraboulsi-McCarthy on Gaza & the reckoning between humanitarianism & protection "We must rethink the role of international and local humanitarian actors in providing protection without abrogating the fundamental responsibility of states to provide it."
The Gaza crisis demands a humanitarian reckoning | Humanitarian Practice Network
We cannot afford to give up on Gaza – nor on the principles and responsibilities that define humanitarianism itself.
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It was great to be at the launch of the government's new Civil Society Covenant last week. A timely and important step toward building more equitable relationship between government and communities. 🧵
📺 This week during an Urgent Question to the Foreign Secretary on the UK's response to the worsening situation in Sudan, @melanieward.bsky.social MP raised an important question about the UK’s approach to preventing & responding to mass atrocity crimes. 🧵
🚨 We are launching a new programme offering micro grants to community organisations to lead anti-hate initiatives! As part of our Design. Build. Act. programme, we are inviting 10 community-based organisations in London to co-design & deliver new anti-hate initiatives with funding & support.
🚨 We're excited to be leading a major community listening exercise across Stoke-on-Trent, commissioned by the One Stoke-on-Trent Board. From June to September 2025, we'll be engaging with people across the city to hear about their lives, challenges, hopes and ideas for the future.