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National Hate Crime Awareness Week 2023
Hate Crime National Hate Crime Awareness Week is from 14th – 21st October 2023. The aim of National Hate Crime Awareness Week is to: Raise hate crime awareness Improve operational responses to hate crime Prevent hate crime Empower communities affected by hate crime...
Black History Month October 2023
BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2023 – SALUTING OUR SISTERS The story of Black History Month begins in 1915, half a century after the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the United States. Black History Month is an annual observance that takes place in October in the United...
My Journey to Surrey
Surrey Day It’s Surrey Day on Saturday May 13, 2023. This event takes place every year to celebrate the county. Usually held on the first Saturday in May every year, Surrey Day 2023 is being held a week later than usual due to King Charles III's coronation...
Voices Heard
Surrey Minority Ethnic Forum invited members of our Black African and Afro-Caribbean communities to join us at our Voices Heard event in March. Also joining the event were Nolan Heather, Chief Inspector, Operational and Delivery Lead Digital, Data and Technology and...
Commendation for Our Chair, Neelam Devesher
Congratulations to Neelam Devesher DL, Chair of the Hate Crime Scrutiny Panel and Chair of Surrey Minority Ethnic Forum, who was awarded with a Chief Constable’s Commendation on Wednesday, 8 March. Neelam, who has chaired the panel from its inception in 2019, has...
Pathways to Change
Surrey Minority Ethnic Forum (SMEF) and Surrey Coalition of Disabled People (The Coalition) are currently working on a research project looking at the experiences of South-Asian adults within mental health services in Surrey and North-East Hampshire. The project is...
Coffee, Cake And Chat!
Woking People of Faith organised an interfaith coffee for women, supported by our Many Hands’ group in Woking. 15 women from different faiths including Baha’i, Christian, Jewish and Muslim, gathered for a social, and enjoyed some delicious cake and coffee at the...
community safety partnership statement
Representatives from agencies across Spelthorne and Surrey, who form part of the Surrey Community Safety Partnership, met on Tuesday 14 February, to discuss the co-ordinated approach to the investigations and ongoing community engagement following the racially...
Mental Health Awareness Events
SMEF has organised two community events and delivered two-day, one day and half day training sessions on Mental Health First Aid recently. The Mental Health First Aid courses are MHFA England certified and have been very popular; participants have expressed interest...
statement from surrey minority ethnic forum
Surrey Minority Ethnic Forum strongly condemns the serious racially aggravated assault which took place outside Thomas Knyvett College, Ashford on 6 February 2023. Our thoughts are with the students, and their families, and we hope that they recover from their...
voter i.d.
From 4 May 2023, voters in England will need to show photo ID to vote at polling stations in some elections. This will apply to: Local elections Police and Crime Commissioner elections UK parliamentary by-elections Recall petitions From October 2023 it will also apply...
housing needs focus group
As part of Surrey Minority Ethnic Forum's involvement in a Housing Needs Assessment for Epsom & Ewell Borough Council, we recently hosted a virtual focus group meeting for community and faith group leaders to talk about their collective housing needs Last year...
Needs based assessment
Covid disproportionately affected people from Black and minority ethnic communities. National research has also found that Black and minority ethnic people are disproportionately falling faster and further below the poverty line because of the cost of living crisis....