Shared Endeavour Fund reaches £17 million total since 2016 as Community Security Trust records 24% rise in antisemitic incidents and Tell Mama reports surge in anti-Muslim hate
The Mayor of London has announced a further £875,000 in funding to tackle hate crime and extremism across the capital, as new data from Jewish and Muslim community organisations shows significant increases in reported incidents against both communities in 2026.
The latest investment brings the total committed through Sadiq Khan’s Shared Endeavour Fund since its establishment to £17 million — the largest sustained investment in hate crime prevention by any London Mayor since the office was created.
The Scale of Rising Hate in London
The funding announcement is backed by data from three separate organisations monitoring hate incidents against religious communities in London:
Antisemitism: The Community Security Trust has recorded a 24 percent increase in antisemitic incidents in London since the start of 2026 compared to the same period previously.
Anti-Muslim hate: Tell Mama has reported that the number of anti-Muslim hate incidents recorded in London in the first six months of 2026 already exceeds the total number recorded across the whole of 2023.
Mosque attacks: The British Muslim Trust has documented nine separate attacks on mosques in London over the past 12 months.
Recent high-profile incidents have included the stabbing of two men in Golders Green and an arson attack on Hatzola ambulances — emergency vehicles operated by the Jewish community — events that prompted increased police protection for London’s Jewish communities.
These figures reflect a pattern of community tension that both Jewish and Muslim organisations have linked to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, which has generated polarised community responses and created conditions in which extremists on multiple sides have sought to exploit grievances.
What the Shared Endeavour Fund Does
The Shared Endeavour Fund, which has been running since 2020, provides grant funding to grassroots community organisations across all 32 London boroughs to deliver hate crime prevention, counter-extremism, and community cohesion work.
Since 2020, the fund has:
- Supported 138 projects across London
- Worked directly with more than 220,000 participants
- Operated across every London borough
The latest funding round — Call 7 of the programme — will extend work to a further 50,000 Londoners in the coming year, reaching young people in schools and community settings across the capital.
Organisations Funded in the Latest Round
Three organisations announced as recipients in the latest funding call illustrate the range of approaches the Shared Endeavour Fund supports:
Stand UP! Education Against Discrimination
Delivers classroom workshops on antisemitism and Islamophobia, led jointly by Jewish and Muslim facilitators working together. The joint facilitation model is deliberately designed to model interfaith cooperation while addressing prejudice — making the method itself part of the message.
Thoughtful
Provides training for teachers and educators, building capacity within schools to equip young people with the critical thinking skills needed to recognise and reject hate, intolerance, and extremist ideologies. The train-the-trainer model extends reach beyond what direct participant engagement alone can achieve.
Tech Against Terrorism
Runs school-based workshops specifically focused on the online dimension of radicalisation and hate, equipping students with the skills to identify misinformation, fake news, and extremist content circulating through social media and other digital platforms. This focus on digital literacy reflects the reality that online spaces are now a primary vector for extremist recruitment and hate content targeting young people.
The Community Protection Team
Following lobbying by the Mayor, the Metropolitan Police received additional government funding to establish a new Community Protection Team of 300 officers, combining neighbourhood policing with specialist protection capabilities.
The team is specifically tasked with reassuring and protecting London’s Jewish communities following the recent high-profile attacks. The 300-officer deployment represents a significant dedicated resource — though the Mayor has been explicit that policing alone cannot address the root causes of hate and extremism, and that prevention through community investment remains the essential long-term response.
The National Security Context
The announcement comes after the UK national terrorism threat level was raised earlier this year from substantial to severe — the second-highest level in the five-tier threat assessment framework. The severe level indicates that an attack is considered highly likely.
The raised threat level reflects the assessment of the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre based on intelligence about the current threat environment, and has directly influenced the Mayor’s acceleration of Shared Endeavour Fund investment and the establishment of the Community Protection Team.
Why Prevention Matters More Than Response
The Shared Endeavour Fund’s design reflects a consensus in counter-extremism research that reactive policing and criminal justice responses, while necessary, cannot address the conditions that make individuals susceptible to radicalisation or that normalise hateful attitudes within communities.
Effective prevention requires earlier intervention — reaching young people before extremist narratives have taken hold, building resilience against online recruitment, and strengthening the social bonds between communities that extremists seek to sever.
The fund’s track record of reaching 220,000 Londoners across 138 projects over five years represents meaningful scale for a prevention programme of this type, though the challenge it faces has grown alongside the political and geopolitical tensions that have driven the recent spike in reported incidents.
How Londoners Can Report Hate Crime
Londoners who experience or witness a hate crime can report it through the following channels:
- Metropolitan Police: Call 101 (non-emergency) or 999 (emergency)
- True Vision: Online hate crime reporting at report-it.org.uk
- Community Security Trust (antisemitic incidents): 0800 032 3263
- Tell Mama (anti-Muslim incidents): tellmamauk.org or 0800 456 1226
- Stop Hate UK: 0800 138 1625
Anyone with information about terrorism or extremism can contact the Anti-Terrorist Hotline on 0800 789 321, or use the online tip form at gov.uk/report-terrorism.
