{"id":8288,"date":"2015-06-29T12:39:17","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T12:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/06\/29\/helping-fight-radicalisation\/"},"modified":"2015-06-29T12:39:17","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T12:39:17","slug":"helping-fight-radicalisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/29\/helping-fight-radicalisation\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping Fight Radicalisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Women\u2019s Group Awarded Fund <\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"middle\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/ArticleImages\/Apna%20Ghar%20Fund-458x191.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>A women\u2019s group in South Tyneside has been awarded \u00a338,000 to raise awareness of radicalisation and internet grooming.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Members of Apna Ghar admitted they were stunned when Northumbria Police Crime Commissioner, Vera Baird, announced the news at the group\u2019s annual general meeting which was held at South Shields Town Hall.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Ms Baird had been invited along to give the group a talk on her Victim\u2019s First referral service and after her speech she delivered the good news.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Carol Robertson, centre manager, said, \u201cEveryone is thrilled to bits with the news. I got a five minutes heads up that the announcement was coming, but everyone else was so surprised.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cWe had placed a bid a while ago asking for some help, as we were struggling because we depend on funding, but I don\u2019t think any of us expected this amount.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cMs Baird said that she liked what Apna Ghar was all about and what we were trying to do.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The cash, from the Supporting Victims Fund, will be used towards a pilot project focusing on young women within the BME communities in South Shields, aged 13 to 18, to raise awareness and tackle issues such as domestic abuse, hate crime, internet grooming and radicalisation.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Ms Baird added, \u201cI am delighted to award funding to this very worthy group. I\u2019m passionate about working with our diverse communities and want to increase confidence amongst those in the minority to come forward to police or support agencies and seek help about issues they may face.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cI\u2019m confident the money will go a long way to making this pilot project a success.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women\u2019s Group Awarded Fund &#13; A women\u2019s group in South Tyneside has been awarded \u00a338,000 to raise awareness of radicalisation and internet grooming. &#13; \u00a0 &#13; Members of Apna Ghar admitted they were stunned when Northumbria Police Crime Commissioner, Vera Baird, announced the news at the group\u2019s annual general meeting which was held at South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}