✪ On Wednesday we held our Safer Streets event at Central Hall! 

This event has been a very important project for us, as because we are a hate crime reporting centre it is very important for us that people with learning disabilities feel safe in our communities and that they know how to get support if they don’t. Working together with the Bradford Hate Crime Alliance to celebrate Hate Crime Awareness Week this week, the Safer Streets event was born!

The event was set up incredibly by our staff member Debra, who also contacted many of the groups and organisations who attended the event! She was supported by our amazing staff team to organise and promote the event, as well as many of our incredible members – who supported the event in so many ways, from taking photos on the day, sharing posters out in the community, to creating and presenting a Fire Marshal plan to make sure everyone at the event would be safe!

There were fantastic presentations from Frazer from BHCA, Jo from Safer Bradford about the importance of safeguarding, Chris Beanland from Beanland Taekwon-Do about self defence and de-escalating conflicts, a Community Support Officer from the West Yorkshire Police about why its so important to report hate crimes and incidents, as well as a speech from Keighley’s Deputy Mayor! 

There were lots of different safety items and leaflets for people to come get with lots of really useful information on it. We hope everyone who attended it enjoyed the session and learned a lot!