PROJECT
Think Project
FUNDING
£175,000 for three years from the Big Lottery Fund's Innovation programme in Wales
BACKGROUND
In 2009, in response to increasing concern about the rise of Islamic extremism across the UK, Swansea-based Ethnic Youth Support Team (EYST) launched its Positive Street Project, an informal education and engagement programme to steer young Muslims away from radicalisation.
Racial tensions in Wales were rising, reflected by far-right Welsh Defence League demonstrations in 2010 and 2011 and the charity went on to develop a similar programme for young white people. "There was quite a lot of general anti-racism and diversity education but it wasn't reaching the people who needed it most," recalls EYST director, Rocio Cifuentes. "We felt we needed to target the most disadvantaged and disaffected young white people and many weren't actually in school and had probably been excluded."
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