The Home Office has announced it will continue to grant the Community Security Trust £14 million to help keep members of the Jewish community safe
The Home Office has today (12 April) announced that it will continue to grant the Community Security Trust (CST) £14 million to help keep members of the Jewish community safe in their daily lives.
The Home Office has been supporting the Community Security Trust, a charity that monitors and helps protect British Jews against antisemitism, since 2015 following a series of terror attacks against Jewish targets across Europe.
The grant announced today will cover protective security for the next financial year at Jewish institutions, including synagogues and schools.
The Community Security Trust’s work to identify and report antisemitic crimes forms part of the government’s work in tackling antisemitism in the UK. In 2021, the CST recorded 2,255 anti-Jewish hate incidents nationwide, the highest annual total ever recorded.
Home Secretary Priti Patel said:
Community Security Trust Chief Executive Mark Gardner said:
The UK has a robust legislative framework to tackle hate crime and offenders will face the full force of the law, with over 10,000 cases prosecuted by the Crown Prosecution Service in the last year.