Over the past few days the streets of Britain have seen a surge in coordinated racist and islamophobic violence. We have seen rioters targeting mosques and hotels hosting people seeking asylum, organised identity-based intimidation, destruction of public property, and civil unrest.

The coordinated racist and islamophobic violence over the last week will provoke a surge in all forms of identity-based discrimination and hate crime. The attacks against Filipino NHS nurses in Sunderland were dreadful example of this. On Your Side is ready to support our ESEA communities who have been affected by such violence.

We at On Your Side are appalled by and unequivocally condemn the violence being committed by the far-right in the UK. We stand in solidarity with those who have been affected and all communities across the UK who have been made to feel unsafe.

ESEA communities make up over a quarter of the world’s Muslim population. If you have been affected by any of the actions of the last week, be it through verbal intimidation, harassment, or physical violence, please know that you can reach out to our free service for support at any time.

Below, we have gathered a list of other resources for individuals and organisations that provide support and reporting services to victims of hate crime. 

A non-exhaustive list of hate crime reporting and support services include: 

Stop Hate UK https://www.stophateuk.org/ 

Provides independent, confidential and accessible reporting and support

True Vision https://www.report-it.org.uk/ 

Online hate crime reporting directly to police including an anonymous option

Crimestoppers https://crimestoppers-uk.org/ 

Independent UK charity taking crime information anonymously 

The Monitoring Group https://tmg-uk.org/ 

Provides a helpline and casework service for people affected by racial violence, religious hatred, sexual violence and state neglect or misconduct

On Your Side https://www.onyoursideuk.org/ 

Reporting and support for East and Southeast Asian communities who face racism or hate 

Tell Mama UK https://tellmamauk.org/ 

Reporting and support for targets of anti-Muslim hate incidents

Community Security Trust https://cst.org.uk/ 

Reporting and support for targets of antisemitic hate incidents 

Gypsy and Traveller Empowerment Herts https://gateherts.org.uk/ 

Reporting and support in hate incident affecting the Gypsy and Traveller Communities

Galop https://galop.org.uk/ 

Reporting and support for targets of anti-LGBTQI+ hate-incidents

Mermaids https://mermaidsuk.org.uk/ 

Support for transgender people up to the age of 20

Scope https://www.scope.org.uk/ 

Reporting and support for targets of disability hate-incidents

Zoteria https://www.stonewall.org.uk/zoteria 

App created by Stonewall and Galop to report LGBTQ hate crimes and abuse 

British Transport Police 0800 40 50 40 

For Tube and rail, you can text what happened, where and when, to 61016 

Or use the Railway Guardian app to report an incident on public transport