Newark College Students host Market Place meeting as part of Hate Crime Awareness Week
The Newark community is uniting to stop hate crime.
Hate Crime Awareness Week runs nationally from Sunday.
The Newark Stop Hate Crime campaign, which aims to raise awareness of how bystanders can safely intervene to stop and then report hate crimes, started with the launch of a poster and video competition for children and adults at schools, colleges and churches.
Schools in Newark already include considerable work on the topic of preventing hate crime in their curriculum so organisers are asking all schools to contribute to the success of the week by encouraging their students to submit video and poster entries.
There will be a stall in the Market Square this Saturday, 9.30am-3pm, with leaflets and posters designed to tell people about hate crime and how to report it.
Unit 5 of the Buttermarket on Middlegate will be displaying posters and videos that have been entered.
There will also be art materials available so children going along can have a go at making their own poster either to add to the display or take home.
Entries must be delivered to Newark College reception any week day until 5pm on Monday.
In Nottinghamshire there were 2,300 hate incidents and crimes reported in the last year.
“There is zero tolerance for people who target individuals just because they are different,” said a spokesman for the initiative.
“We are standing together to say we think Newark is a good place to live. We respect and help each other to life safe and happy lives.”
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