Guidance

Engagement list from Sara Khan, Lead Commissioner for Countering Extremism: September 2019 to April 2020

Published 28 July 2020

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The Lead Commissioner for Countering Extremism has engaged widely, and we publish summaries of the meetings she has held. Our Terms of Reference document, published September 2018, includes a list of organisations she met between April and August 2018.[footnote 1]

The organisations she met between September 2018 and September 2019 were published alongside the report Challenging Hateful Extremism, in October 2019.[footnote 2] The list below covers meeting held between September 2019 and April 2020.

To respect data protection requirements, organisations’ names are listed rather than individuals, except in the case of politicians. The Lead Commissioner also meets victims of extremism, young people, and other individuals without affiliation whose names are not listed. The Commissioner’s engagement includes one-to-one meetings, workshops, conferences and group discussions during her visits across the country.

1. Central government and regulators

  • Colin Bloom (Faith Engagement Advisor)
  • Baroness Williams of Trafford (Minister of State Home Office)
  • John Woodcock (UK Special Envoy for Countering Violent Extremism)
  • Qari Asim (Government Advisor on Islamophobia)

2. Other public sector

  • Assistant Chief Constable Neil Basu
  • Assistant Commissioner Martin Hewitt
  • Blackburn College
  • Blackburn with Darwen Council
  • Dame Vera Baird (Victims Commissioner)
  • Deputy Chief Constable Mark Hamilton
  • Equalities and Human Rights Commission
  • His Honour Judge Lucraft QC (Chief Coroner for England and Wales)
  • National Online Hate Crime Hub
  • The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology
  • University College London Institute of Education
  • Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls School

3. Politicians

  • Jane Hutt AM (Deputy First Minister for Wales)
  • Lord Carlile
  • Lord Mann
  • Leanne Wood AM
  • Preet Gill MP
  • Yvette Cooper MP

4. Academics, Experts and Thinktanks

  • Centre for Countering Digital Hate
  • CREST
  • Institute for Strategic Dialogue
  • Royal United Services Institute
  • Tech Against Terrorism
  • Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
  • Twitter

5. Civil Society

  • Anti-Muslim Hatred Working Group
  • The Accord Coalition
  • The Arc Project
  • Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Bikum Cholim Satmar
  • Blackburn Interfaith Forum
  • Blackburn Rovers Community Trust
  • Care Network Hub
  • Healthy Living, Blackburn
  • Holocaust Memorial Day Trust
  • HOPE not hate
  • Interlink Foundation
  • Independent Advisory Group on Hate Crime
  • North London Mosque Community Centre
  • Tell MAMA
  • Wish Centre

6. International

  • None

  1. Commission for Countering Extremism. 2018. Annexes to the Commission for Countering Extremism Terms of Reference, (accessed: 15 June 2020) - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/study-into-the-current-picture-of-extremism-terms-of-reference ↩

  2. Commission for Countering Extremism. 2019. Annex A: Engagement by Sara Khan, Lead Commissioner for Countering Extremism September 2018 to September 2019, (accessed: 15 June 2020) -https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/challenging-hateful-extremism ↩

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