Prevent Strategy - Local Delivery Best Practice Catalogue

Prevent Strategy - Local Delivery Best Practice Catalogue is an official document discovered by Powerbase in 2016 and produced by the Office of Security and Counter Terrorism in the UK Home Office. Dated March 2015, the forty six page document provides details of a number of organisations in receipt of Prevent funding which had been previously unknown. The most controversial elements of the document - labelled 'not for public disclosure' refer to four projects, part of the so called 'national counter narrative', which appear to acknowledge that each was part of a British government covert propaganda strategy. Each of the projects claim to be independent 'grass roots' groupings tackling extremism, however, this document appears to show that each is a 'RICU product', in a reference to the Home Office strategic communications agency the Research Information and Communication Unit.

The four projects are Faith on the Frontline, FAST (also known as Families Against Stress and Trauma), MakingAStand (a campaign launched by an organisation called Inspire) and A Tale of Two Cities. Each of these projects involved covert direction and funding from RICU and its communications agency Breakthrough Media Limited.

Organisations and individuals mentioned in the document

Objective 1 - Ideology

1. National Counter- Narrative (RICU products) - 'not for public disclosure'

• Faith on the Frontline - Imam Hafiz
• FAST - Families Against Stress and Trauma
• MakingAStand - Inspire
• A Tale of Two Cities

2. Local Counter-Narrative

• Upstanding Neighbourhoods (Birmingham) including training input from third parties (e.g. Salaam Institute and Radical Thinking CIC)
• British or Muslim: Providing Positive Messages (London Tri-borough) - Third party provider London Tigers
• Reach (Blackburn with Darwen)
• FIDA Management: Capacity & Resilience (Waltham Forest) - Third party provider FIDA Management

Objective 2 - People

Families

• Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities (London Tri-borough)
• Supporting Families (Blackburn with Darwen)

Women

• Raising Voices - Third party provider STR!VE (Leicester)
• Tackling Extremism through Women & Families (Derby)

Young people

• Young Leaders (Redbridge, Waltham Forest and Crawley) Third party provider currently Active Change Foundation
• Community Outreach & Engagement - Active Change Foundation (Waltham Forest)
• Building Community Resilience - Third party provider London Tigers (Tower Hamlets, Redbridge and Barking & Dagenham)
• Powers of Persuasion - third party provider Second Wave (Lewisham)

Objective 3 - Sectors and Institutions

1. Schools/ education

• Challenging Extremist Narratives in Schools (High Wycombe) - Third party provider EqualiTeach
• Respect for One Another (Leicester) - contact Will Baldet
• Choices: Alternatives to Extremism (Bradford)
• Choices: Mainstreaming Prevent Education (Bradford)
• Walk on By (Newham) - contact Ghaffar Hussain
• GAME ON (Stoke-on-Trent) - Third party provider Reveal Theatre
• One Extreme to the Other - GW Theatre (Blackburn, Liverpool, Leeds & Luton)
• Tapestry (Birmingham) - Third party provider The Play House Theatre Company
• Supporting Schools ( Blackburn)
• Identity, belonging, extremism - FIDA Management (Waltham Forest)

Online

• Digital Resilience (Waltham Forest)
• Internet Safety (Blackburn with Darwen)
• Web Guardians (Haringey, Luton,and Crawley) - Third party provider JAN Trust

3. Faith

• Mosque resilience and capacity building (Ealing) - Third party provider Faith Associates
• Supporting Madrassahs (Brent) - HA9 Consultancy Limited
• Pathwayz (Birmingham) - Third party provider KIKIT Pathways to Recovery
• Muslimah Matters (Ealing) - Third party provider not listed.

Resources

• Prevent Strategy - Local Delivery Best Practice Catalogue
• Prevent Strategy - Local Delivery Best Practice Catalogue searchable version.
• David Miller and Narzanin Massoumi The Home Office, RICU and Muslim civil society groups: Briefing for the Home Affairs Select Committee Countering extremism inquiry 10 June 2016.