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Hope Not Hate: the Big Give day 6

I’m supporting anti-fascist charity Hope Not Hate on day six of my Big Give Christmas Challenge 2024 tips.

It’s a sad truth that fundraising takes up about half of most charities’ income and resources. Anything they can do to make that easier means that more money goes to the causes they support. Matched funding like the Big Give makes a huge difference.

A graphic for Hope Not Hate's Hold On To Hope campaign

Hope Not Hate

Fighting the far right can seem like an endless game of whack-a-mole, countering their weasly messages of fear and loathing. Hope Not Hate activists have played the game for almost 20 years — and won.

The charity was key to the defeat and implosion of both the BNP and EDL. In 2017, HNH intelligence helped to foil a murder plot by the banned far-right terror group National Action, aimed at a Labour MP.

Social media and the rise of professional demagogues have made their work harder in the 2020s. A shamelessly right wing media, political cowardice and pandering haven’t helped. So Hope Not Hate has doubled down.

They continue to go undercover and expose the criminals at the heart of groups like Britain First. They’ve dug into the dirty underbelly of Reform UK and expose the rebranding of eugenics. They disrupt the lies of Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson) and Andrew Tate.

Their latest campaign, Hold On To Hope, aims to turn pessimism into a movement of hope and community action. It’s inspired by the communities in Southport and Sunderland who cleaned up the mess left by far right thugs.

Hope Not Hate is looking for stories of positive community action, communities where they can nurture the seeds of hope. Supporting them will not only boost this campaign, but their wider work against the far right and other extremists.

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