Support Resources

 University Support

•  Speak to advisor.  A specialist advisor will get in touch to discuss your options with you and will be able to offer appropriate practical and emotional support tailored to your circumstances.  This is confidential and does not instigate any kind of formal reporting process. 
• Counselling Service. The Counselling Service offers confidential support to students and staff.

External Support 

• Stop Hate UK provides independent, confidential and accessible reporting and support for victims, witnesses and third parties.
• Citizens Advice provides some useful information on the different types of harassment and hate crime people may experience including disability hate crime, racist and religious hate crime, and sexual orientation and transgender identity hate crime.
• True Vision offers guidance on reporting hate crime and hate incidents. If you do not wish to talk to anyone in person about the incident or wish to remain anonymous, there is an online form for reporting hate crime; you can report non-crime hate incidents to the police to try and prevent any escalation in seriousness.
• Greater Manchester Victims’ Services website provides useful information and practical advice for victims and survivors of crime, and their families. You can use it to find help, regardless of when the crime happened, or whether or not you reported it to the police.
• Manchester LGBT Foundation has a number of groups covering a wide section of the LGBT community which meet at the Community Resource Centre on Richmond Street in Manchester. 
• Galop is an LGBT+ anti-violence charity who support people who have experienced hate crime, sexual violence or domestic abuse.  They also support lesbian, gay, bi, trans and queer people who have had problems with the police or have questions about the criminal justice system.
• Disability Equality NW runs the Developing from the Negatives Project (DFN) which aims to raise awareness of Disability Hate Crime and encourage reporting. 
• Tell MAMA supports victims of anti-Muslim hate and is a public service which also measures and monitors anti-Muslim incidents.
• Community Security Trust (CS) helps those who are victims of anti-Semitic hatred, harassment or bias.
• On Your Side is the only UK-wide support and reporting system for ESEA communities who experience racism and/or other forms of hate. It is free to use and available in multiple languages including Fookien, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, Japanese, and Vietnamese.
• CST is a website where people can report and instances of antisemitism and access relevant support.